No Longer at Ease Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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No Longer at Ease Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Obi warned about at his farewell prayer meeting?
(a) He is to "learn book," fear the Lord and not fall into the temptations of other young Africans.
(b) He is to study hard and go often to church.
(c) He is to go to church and stay out of trouble.
(d) He is to study hard and not chase white women.

2. Where do Obi and Clara meet again eighteen months after their first meeting?
(a) On the MV Vasa.
(b) On the SS Liverpool.
(c) On the SS Lagos.
(d) On the MV Nigeria.

3. How do the older kinsmen respond after hearing Obi's stories about being at sea?
(a) They declare that it is good for a man to return home.
(b) They declare that Obi has been to the "land of the spirits."
(c) They declare that it is unfortunate that young men have to travel so far to get a good education.
(d) They declare that Obi is lucky to have been to hell and back.

4. What negative comments does Mr. Green make about Africans after his tennis match on the morning of the trial?
(a) Africans are corrupt, sapped mentally and physically, and given a Western education that they do not know how to use.
(b) They are all physically and mentally backward.
(c) They cannot help themselves because they are born inferior.
(d) That Africans are too corrupt to benefit from European education.

5. What does the encounter with bribery on the way home cause Obi to think about the situation?
(a) Obi concludes that bribery is an Augean stable that only foreigners can cean up.
(b) Obi concludes that bribery is an Augean stable that requires educated people to clean it up.
(c) Obi concludes Lagos is an Augean stable and vows to clean it up.
(d) Obi wonders where to begin cleaning the Augean stable and thinks a dictator is necessary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the UPU want Obi to study law in England?

2. Why is Obi's description of the streets and market in the Lagos slum ironic?

3. What offensive question does the commissioner who has been sleeping in the interview ask Obi when he wakes up?

4. For which island is the boat heading when Jones recites, "Water, water everywhere; but not a drop to drink"?

5. What reason does Clara give for going to Obi's cabin?

(see the answer key)

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