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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: The Early Sixties.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The comment about “the kind of woman whose sneeze, whose laugh and talk, would be soft as the under feathers closes to a chicken’s skin” (23) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Conceit.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Simile.
(d) Analogy.

2. Which of the following journals does Ugwu note having attempted to read?
(a) Monthly Review.
(b) Dissent.
(c) Socialist Review.
(d) Jacobin.

3. To which of the following markets in Lagos does Olanna take the pregnant Arize?
(a) Shop-a-way.
(b) King’s Corner.
(c) Safeway.
(d) Kingsway.

4. The word “ndo” carries which of the following meanings in the text?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Sorry.
(d) Thanks.

5. To which of the following is Odenigbo assigned?
(a) Educational Directorate.
(b) Central Directorate.
(c) Manpower Directorate.
(d) Research and Production Directorate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following foods has Harrison cooked when Richard confesses his perfidy to Kainene?

2. Which of the following schools does Kainene note she and Olanna attended?

3. The phrase “ola m” carries what meaning in the text?

4. Which of the following does Olanna see the night of her return to Nsukka following the second coup?

5. Which of the following does Odenigbo’s friend Prof. Ezeka drink?

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