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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. Who states that they had "allowed" (149) Ada to visit a therapist?
(a) Asughara.
(b) The We.
(c) Ala.
(d) Saint Vincent.

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

3. Asughara remarks that the brothersisters smell of what?
(a) Silence.
(b) Pain.
(c) Trouble.
(d) Hope.

4. Who dresses Ada in masculine clothing and a binder?
(a) Saint Vincent.
(b) Ewan.
(c) Asughara.
(d) Ala.

5. Ada names which character as never sleeping at night?
(a) The We.
(b) Asughara.
(c) Saul.
(d) Saachi.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long after Asughara's plan fails does Ada get surgery?

2. Who is the narrator of Chapter 10?

3. Asughara remarks that "it is not" what "to persuade a human to end their life" (150)?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Ada's reaction to the disturbing altercation with Obiageli and how does it serve as the first of many?

2. How does Emezi use foreshadowing within the early moments of Ada's relationship with Ewan?

3. Where had Ada been born and how does she feel about returning each time she does?

4. What event causes Asughara to become tired and to allow another entity to control Ada more often?

5. Who is Saint Vincent and what impact does he have on Ada?

6. What event occurs in Ada's life just before Chima comes to visit her?

7. What action of Ada's does Asughara judge to be evidence of Ada's remaining innocence?

8. For what reason are The We disturbed by the onset of Ada's menstrual cycle?

9. What action does Ada take when Ewan confesses that he has a girlfriend?

10. What is the moment Asughara describes as revealing Ewan's dark side?

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