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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jane call the scene of splendor as Olunde gestures toward it during their argument?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Life.
(c) Therapy.
(d) Decadence.

2. Which character does not speak at all during the play?
(a) Elesin's bride.
(b) Amusa.
(c) Joseph.
(d) Olunde.

3. Who is the Master of Death, according to "Death and the king's horseman"?
(a) Anger.
(b) Religion.
(c) Age.
(d) Memory.

4. What part of the body must touch the ground one final time before the transition is made?
(a) Head.
(b) Mouth.
(c) Hands.
(d) Feet.

5. How many shells are there to the soul of a man?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. This character is portrayed as being selfish and ignorant of others' cultures.

2. Finish the quotation stated by Jane in Act 1, Scene 4. "The kind of person you feel should be a poet munching _____________ in Bloomsbury".

3. Which character is NOT present in the last scene of the play?

4. What do the women of the market carry as they enter Elesin's cell?

5. The Yoruba is a ___________ society, as stated within the text.

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