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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Esi say about monogamy?
(a) It is stifling.
(b) It is good if there are children.
(c) It is honorable.
(d) It is old fashioned.

2. What does Esi do after she drops Ali off at Hotel Twentieth Century?
(a) Goes to pick up Ogyaanowa.
(b) Drives to visit her mother.
(c) Drives out to the country.
(d) Goes to visit Opokuya.

3. What does Esi tell Ali to do?
(a) Go home to his wife and children.
(b) Choose between her and Fusena.
(c) Divorce her.
(d) Start seeing her every week or not at all.

4. Where does Kubi and two nephews go?
(a) To Esi's home.
(b) To get more potatoes.
(c) To watch t.v. at a neighbor's house.
(d) To get more beans.

5. What traditional rule has been already broken concerning Ali and Esi according to Opokuya?
(a) Fusena is pregnant and Esi is supposed to be there helping her.
(b) Esi is having sexual relations before marriage.
(c) Esi is wearing a ring.
(d) The first wife has to approve of subsequent wives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Esi say her mother thinks concerning marrying Ali?

2. What does Esi ask Opokuya concerning Oko?

3. Who is not pleased when Ali visits the Dakwa's on January 2nd?

4. What shocks Ali's female relatives?

5. What does Ali say when Esi demands to know why he's been gone so long?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens that makes Fusena give her consent to Ali marrying Esi?

2. What does Esi feel after leaving Opokuya's home?

3. Why would it have been different if Oko had taken a second wife?

4. How is Esi feeling after a year of marriage to Ali?

5. What does Ali decide to do to assuage his guilt, but how does that only increase his guilt and Esi's shame?

6. Who arrives at Esi's house while Ali is still there and what happens?

7. Describe Esi's conversation with Opokuya three months after ending her marriage with Ali.

8. What happens after the trip to Bamako?

9. Where does Esi go after dropping Ali off in her new car and what does she offer Opokuya?

10. How does Esi finally make a break with Ali near the end of their third year of marriage?

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