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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What cynical feeling does Obi have about seeing how insistent the Marks family is on doing whatever it takes for Elsie to get a scholarship?
(a) A degree can turn a clerk into a senior civil servant with a high salary--the next best thing to being European.
(b) A degree can turn a clerk into a senior civil servant at £570 plus amenities--the next best thing to being a white man.
(c) A degree can make a clerk into what all Nigerians dream of becoming--more like the white man.
(d) A degree can turn a clerk into a European.

2. How does Christopher react to Obi's news that Clara might be pregnant?
(a) He immediately thinks of abortion.
(b) He comments that this is a new and serious turn of events.
(c) He comments that Obi might not be the father.
(d) He comments that this shouold not encourage Obi to marry her.

3. What brings a bad end to the occasion at the end of the evening after the two couples have enjoyed themselves?
(a) Clara's money is missing from Obi's car.
(b) Christopher's car is missing from the parking lot.
(c) The couples are held up on their way to the car.
(d) Obi's car is missing from the parking lot.

4. What does the process lead Obi to decide when he examines the "mainspring of his actions" for the first time in his life?
(a) He resolves to stop making payments to the UPU until it is convenient.
(b) He decides to confess his troubles to Mr. Green and ask for help.
(c) He decides to confess his troubles to Clara's father and ask for help.
(d) He decides to confess his troubles to his father and ask for help.

5. What story does his father share when Obi announces he will leave early to return to Lagos?
(a) He tells the story of a boy who marries an outcast and never finds happiness.
(b) How he was taken by missionaries and his father put a curse on him.
(c) He tells the story of a boy who dies after hurting his family and running away.
(d) He tells the story of a woman who dies of heartbreak after her son marries an outcast.

6. How does the argument between Obi and Clara end on the night before he goes home?
(a) They part without any resolution.
(b) They terminate the relationship.
(c) They end up in a physical fight.
(d) They kiss passionately and make up.

7. How does Christopher deal with Obi's feelings about his mother's threat of suicide?
(a) Obi says he is only concerned about marrying Clara and Christopher calls him a fool.
(b) Obi does not take it too seriously but Christopher warns that he should listen to his mother.
(c) Christopher tells a story of a woman who threatened suicide but backed away.
(d) Both are worried but Christopher makes light of it.

8. Where do Clara and Obi go with Christopher and his new girlfriend, Bisi?
(a) They go to the movie at the Imperial and then dancing.
(b) They go to dinner and a movie at the Imperial and then dancing.
(c) They go dancing at the Imperial.
(d) They go dancing and to dinner at the Imperial.

9. How does Obi feel after he resists the temptation to accept Mr. Mark's bribe?
(a) He feels wonderful because he will get a good review.
(b) He feels wonderful because he resisted his first temptation to accept a bribe.
(c) He feels wonderful because Clara sends a note agreeing to marry him.
(d) He feels wonderful because Marie says he did so well in the interview.

10. After Clara and Obi discuss the situation concerning the response of his parents to their engagement, what comments of Clara foreshadow further trouble?
(a) Clara says there is something she had wanted to tell him, but she should be able to take care of it herself.
(b) She says she is in trouble at work but she is working things out.
(c) She reveals that she is pregnant but wants him to leave it to her to manage it..
(d) She reveals that her parents are also against the marriage.

11. Which girl does Christopher consider marrying except for the fact that she is going away to study?
(a) Clara.
(b) Florence.
(c) Bisi.
(d) Nora.

12. Where do Christopher and Obi go to play tennis with Nora and Pat?
(a) The Civil Servants' Tennis Club.
(b) The YMCA.
(c) The British tennis club.
(d) The Catholic convent.

13. Why is Clara upset with Obi when she hears about him contemplating a bank overdraft?
(a) Because he will not use money he set aside for the bride payment.
(b) Because he did not ask her for money.
(c) Because he refuses to return the engagement ring and get back the money.
(d) Because he refuses the money offered by her parents.

14. What do the villagers accuse Obi of after his mother is buried?
(a) Obi is called a beast who abandons his kin for sweet things.
(b) They accuse Obi of stealing from his own mother to be with an osu woman.
(c) They accuse Obi of giving up his mother for an osu woman.
(d) They accuse Obi of being ungrateful and wicked to his own.

15. What causes Obi's failure to repay Clara's money?
(a) He gets news of his mother's death.
(b) He gets news of his father's death.
(c) Mr. Green demands that he repay the salary advance immediately.
(d) He gets news of taxes he owes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the women to mock Obi when he visits Clara in the hospital?

2. How does Marie Tomlinson respond when she sees Obi's distress about his financial situation?

3. How does the relationship between Obi and Marie Tomlinson develop after she witnesses Obi's distress about his finances?

4. To which literary character does Obi compare Mr. Green?

5. How does the author suggest that there is more than tennis to the relationship that Obi and Christoper have with Nora and Pat?

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