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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. When Asughara begins supplementing Ada's own diet restriction with her own methods, what weight does Ada get down to?
(a) 118 pounds.
(b) 122 pounds.
(c) 98 pounds.
(d) 109 pounds.

2. With whom does Ada stay when she travels just after the end of the May term?
(a) Saachi.
(b) Soren.
(c) Itohan.
(d) Saul.

3. How many bedrooms are in the home Saachi shares with another person upon moving to the United States?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

4. The We's brothersisters know that what action is necessary in order to "break a child" (22)?
(a) To cause a pet to die.
(b) To place a blindfold over the child's eyes.
(c) To kill the human mother.
(d) To make the human mother leave.

5. In what area of the country does Saachi settle after moving to the United States?
(a) The southwest.
(b) The midwest.
(c) The northeast.
(d) The northwest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object belonging to Ada does Soren take with him at the end of the May term?

2. What name does Ada give to the gray entity within The We?

3. What term do The We use to describe Ada's reaction to their arrival within her body?

4. From what location does Malena hail?

5. Ada states that she does not have what object that would be required to tell her own story?

Short Essay Questions

1. Choose and describe a particularly poignant moment in the text and analyze its effect on the reader.

2. What is "iyi-uwa" (14) and how does it relate to The We?

3. Who narrates Chapters 1 through 5?

4. Who is Ala?

5. What physical change does Asughara lead Ada to make in her appearance and why?

6. What effect does the presence of The We inside a very young Ada have on her?

7. What is the symbolism of Ada's golden crucifix necklace?

8. In what ways had Ada been harming herself prior to Asughara's arrival?

9. Describe Emezi's use of a simile to depict a certain character's traits.

10. Describe Ada's human mother.

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