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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The praise-singer warns Elesin about being spoiled by what, at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) Too much food.
(b) Warriors.
(c) The British.
(d) Women.

2. What is the object that distracts Elesin offstage in Act 1, Scene 1 of the play?
(a) Wine.
(b) A beautiful woman.
(c) Rich food.
(d) Fine cloth.

3. What does Elesin claim is the center of his life?
(a) The palace.
(b) Olunde.
(c) The market.
(d) His new wife.

4. Which of the following is NOT included in things that Elesin loves, as described in the first scene of the play?
(a) Women.
(b) Fine cloth.
(c) Rich food.
(d) Red wine.

5. Finish the quotation by Elesin Oba from Act 1, Scene 1. "This market is my roost. When I come among the women I am a(n) ____________ with a hundred mothers."
(a) Chicken.
(b) Rooster.
(c) Cockerel.
(d) Man.

6. What do the women of the market threaten to remove from Amusa if he refuses to leave?
(a) His knickers.
(b) His pants.
(c) His coat.
(d) His hat.

7. To which religion does Amusa belong?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Muslim.
(c) Yoruba.
(d) Judaism.

8. Finish the sentence. The British involvement in this story is ______________.
(a) Destructive.
(b) Problematic.
(c) Incidental.
(d) Contradictory.

9. Where does Pilkings instruct Amusa to lock Elesin up in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) His home.
(b) His study.
(c) A restricted cell.
(d) Jail.

10. Whom does Elesin want by his side at his death?
(a) His son.
(b) Iyaloja.
(c) The praise-singer.
(d) His wife.

11. Oyo is a _______________.
(a) City.
(b) Character.
(c) Kingdom.
(d) Religion.

12. A parallel can be seen between Pilkings and which other character in the play?
(a) Amusa.
(b) The Prince.
(c) Olunde.
(d) Elesin.

13. In which year did the actual occurrence described in the play take place?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1943.

14. The masks in Act 1, Scene 2, signify what?
(a) Death.
(b) Life.
(c) The underworld.
(d) Fear.

15. Iyaloja works to enforce what is good for __________.
(a) Women only.
(b) Elesin.
(c) Her family.
(d) Everyone.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states that this story illustrates a ____________________ between two cultures.

2. What is another name for the praise-singer?

3. Where was the author educated?

4. In Act 1, Scene 2, Jane discusses how calling holy water "nonsense" would offend whom?

5. Which of the following actions is NOT being performed at the beginning of the play?

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