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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. Elesin's love and appreciation for life is ________________ for his community.
(a) Beneficial.
(b) Difficult.
(c) Problematic.
(d) Dangerous.

2. What does Pilkings believe Elesin's duty to be?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Ritual murder.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Sinful.

3. What is proof of the new bride's virginity?
(a) The bridal tent.
(b) White flowers.
(c) Velvet cloth.
(d) A ring.

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

5. What is the author's ethnic background?
(a) British.
(b) South American.
(c) Colombian.
(d) African.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Elesin wish to make the transition?

2. What does Elesin claim is the center of his life?

3. Whom does Elesin want by his side at his death?

4. In regards to time, how should the play be performed?

5. How many years has Olunde been in school thus far, as stated within the conversation in Act 1, Scene 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the difference in music and dance in both societies? How can it be seen in the play?

2. Who is Amusa and what is his role?

3. How does Elesin react to Olunde's death?

4. What is the significance of the term, "my mother", in African culture?

5. How does Olunde react when he finally sees his father, alive?

6. What does Elesin confess when Pilkings leaves his cell in Act 1, Scene 5? To whom does he confess this?

7. Where does Elesin choose to make his transition? Why does he choose this place?

8. What does seeing Elesin alive mean to Olunde?

9. Describe Elesin's reaction when Jane attempts to plead with him in the last scene of the play.

10. How does Olunde react when he sees Jane in the ancestral mask?

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