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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Obi arrives home, what descriptions does the author give of his parents' rooms?
(a) Both are in a disheveled condition.
(b) Isaac's room has been cleared for Hannah to get more space.
(c) Isaac's room is filled with printed materials, while Hannah's is full of mundane things.
(d) Both rooms are exactly as Obi remembers them from childhood.

2. 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 being ungrateful and wicked to his own.
(d) They accuse Obi of giving up his mother for an osu woman.

3. Which friend does Christopher say will help Obi and Clara to find a doctor?
(a) Miss Tomlinson.
(b) Umuofia.
(c) Okoli.
(d) James.

4. What is Obi's response when Clara goes off with the doctor?
(a) Fearing for Clara's life, he goes to work and breaks down emotionally.
(b) Fearing for Clara's life, he goes home and breaks down emotionally.
(c) Fearing losing Clara, he tries to follow the doctor's car, but gets lost and is nearly killed.
(d) Fearing losing Clara, he goes back to Christopher and breaks down emotionally.

5. What does Obi do in an effort to find solace for his distress about Clara's situation?
(a) He cannot eat, sleep or read poems that normally console him.
(b) He is so agitated that he almost crashes his car.
(c) The author writes that Obi does not eat; he pulls down Houseman's volume but then reads no poems.
(d) He storms into the hospital at midnight demanding to see Clara.

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

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

8. What news from home necessitates Obi taking leave to visit his village?
(a) His father writes to say Obi's mother has been hospitalized and that he needs to discuss an urgent matter with Obi.
(b) Obi's mother dies and his father needs support.
(c) One of Obi's siblings has died and the family needs him.
(d) Obi's father becomes seriously ill and his mother wants him home.

9. When Obi returns to work, what comments by Mr. Green continue to reflect his disrespect for Nigerians?
(a) Mr. Green threatens to reduce Obi's entitlement.
(b) Mr. Green complains about Africans being lazy.
(c) Mr. Green says local leave was never meant for lazy Africans.
(d) Mr. Green gives a lecture about abuse of local leave by Africans.

10. What does Clara say about their engagement the night before Obi goes home on leave?
(a) She says they should make it a long one so there is time for everyone to adjust.
(b) She suggests they postpone announcing it.
(c) She says it is in everyone's best interest to call it off.
(d) She suggests they shorten the engagement and just get married.

11. How do the visitors at Obi's home react after he has been there a couple of days?
(a) They are disappointed that Obi has lost touch with them.
(b) They feel closer to Obi because he accepts his father's decision.
(c) They become distant because he tries to stand up to his father for an unworthy woman.
(d) They take offense because he stays in his room and they are told he is ill.

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

13. How does the author make it clear that Obi's financial situation is deteriorating after Obi resists Mr. Mark's offer of a bribe?
(a) Obi finds it hard to live on what remains after paying the UPU and sending money to help his parents.
(b) He cannot find the money he promised to send to his parents.
(c) He has fallen into debt with the UPU and owes someone at the office.
(d) He cannot find the money to pay John's fees and he owes Clara money.

14. When Obi finally reaches Clara's house, how does he relate the outcomes of his visit home?
(a) He says they will have to wait until things settle down.
(b) He tells her they have to call off the marriage but he will be with her anyway.
(c) He suggests they go back to England and marry.
(d) He makes light of it, saying all will be well if they remain quiet for a while.

15. What is Obi's initial response when his father forbids him to marry Clara?
(a) He insists that the Bible says in Christ there are no bond or free.
(b) He tells his father he is a hypocrite to say he is a Christian.
(c) He quotes the Bible and storms out of the room in anger.
(d) He quotes the Bible and says he will marry Clara no matter what.

Short Answer Questions

1. What feelings does Obi have when he sees his mother?

2. How does Obi feel after he resists the temptation to accept Mr. Mark's bribe?

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

4. How does the second doctor that Clara and Obi visit differ from the first?

5. How does Clara embarrass Obi when he finally sees her in the hospital?

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