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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what season does Ada undergo surgery?
(a) Summer.
(b) Winter.
(c) Spring.
(d) Fall.

2. Which inhabitant of Ada's mind had not been expected to come through "the window" (121) but had done so anyway?
(a) Saint Vincent.
(b) Shadow.
(c) Ala.
(d) Asughara.

3. Asughara states that she had been tired after whose departure?
(a) Ewan's.
(b) Malena.
(c) Anuli.
(d) Soren's.

4. What phrase does Asughara use in order to refer to Ada's mind?
(a) The metal room.
(b) The invisible room.
(c) The marble room.
(d) The rubber room.

5. How does Ada feel about it when people begin to mistake her for a boy?
(a) It makes her weary.
(b) It makes her curious.
(c) She hates it.
(d) She likes it.

6. In what season does Ada meet Ewan?
(a) Summer.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Fall.

7. What is Ada's reply to the therapist's first question in Chapter 14?
(a) Not really.
(b) She is not dealing with it.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) To make enough money to survive.

8. The brothersisters are said to be older than whom?
(a) Yshaw.
(b) The first mother.
(c) Adam.
(d) Ala.

9. What first question does the therapist ask Ada in Chapter 14?
(a) How Ada is dealing with the sexual trauma.
(b) What goals Ada has for her career.
(c) Whether Ada is content with her life.
(d) How Ada feels about her future.

10. What does Ewan confess to Ada in Chapter 18?
(a) That he is asexual.
(b) That he is gay.
(c) That he had never loved her.
(d) That he cannot imagine his life without her.

11. Who tells Ada that they are afraid for her life?
(a) Her parents.
(b) Her friends.
(c) Saint Vincent and Asughara.
(d) The We.

12. Music played by what instrument can be heard as the brothersisters unfold into existence before Asughara?
(a) A drum.
(b) A violin.
(c) A piano.
(d) A xylophone.

13. Who is the narrator of Chapter 11?
(a) The We.
(b) Ada.
(c) Asughara.
(d) Ala.

14. What is the title of the part that begins with Chapter 13?
(a) Ilaghachi.
(b) Ada 2.0.
(c) Asughara.
(d) Brethren.

15. Who narrates Chapter 17?
(a) Soren.
(b) Asughara.
(c) The We.
(d) Ada.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Igbo term "Yshaw" (139) is used to refer to whom throughout the novel?

2. Anuli is related to Ada in what way?

3. Asughara exclaims that whose visit to the marble room is the best she has ever received there?

4. The We call Asughara's failed plan by what name?

5. Rather than inhabiting Ada's body, St. Vincent prefers to live within Ada's what?

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