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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 when Kubi wants to check on Oko?
(a) She want to check on him herself.
(b) She is happy he is going to do so.
(c) She objects.
(d) She wants him to take Ogyaanowa with him.

2. What does Mma. Danjuma know when she sees Esi?
(a) Esi is Fusena's inferior in every way.
(b) She will be good friends with Esi.
(c) She will never warm to Esi.
(d) Esi is Fusena's superior in every way.

3. What does Esi find unacceptable about Ali's new secretary?
(a) She is single.
(b) Ali takes her to her home every day.
(c) She always sides with Fusena.
(d) She does not acknowledge Esi as Ali's wife.

4. From where did Ali receive an urgent message?
(a) His office in London.
(b) His office in Abidjan.
(c) His mother-in-law.
(d) His mother.

5. When does Esi want to wait to wear Ali's gift?
(a) After the actual marriage.
(b) Till her birthday.
(c) After the negotiations.
(d) Until they to to visit her family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ali bring Esi?

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

3. What does Ali continually do to Esi?

4. Why does Ali feel guilty at the beginning of Chapter 15?

5. What does Opokuya ask of Esi?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens after the trip to Bamako?

2. How is Ali conflicted on New Year's Eve?

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

4. What does Esi find out about Ali's secretary and what does she decide to do?

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

6. For what does Ali apologize to his people and how does he rationalize his actions?

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

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

9. Give the main highlights of Opokuya and Esi's conversation.

10. What does Opokuya wonder about Fusena, Ali's first wife?

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