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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. What does Obi consider doing in order to meet his mounting debts after speaking with Charles Ibe?
(a) Obi contemplates an overdraft of £50 at his bank.
(b) Obi considers asking Mr. Omo for a salary advance.
(c) Obi contemplates withholding payments from the UPU.
(d) Obi considers asking Mr. Green for a loan.

2. 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 his father and ask for help.
(d) He decides to confess his troubles to Clara's father and ask for help.

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

4. How does Obi's distraction about the situation with his family affect his journey back to Lagos?
(a) He decides to drive carefully so he can plan what to do.
(b) He drives in a daze and almost has a head-on collision.
(c) He drives quickly because he is anxious to get back to Clara.
(d) He drives recklessly because of his anger.

5. How does the relationship between Obi and Marie Tomlinson develop after she witnesses Obi's distress about his finances?
(a) Obi and Marie Tomlinson are on a first-name basis and speak frankly about many things, including Mr. Green.
(b) They have become intimate and share many activities.
(c) They have not recovered from the heated argument about Obi's unpaid debt.
(d) They have become distant and speak only about work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Obi's first impression of Marie Tomlinson, his co-worker at the office?

2. What brings a bad end to the occasion at the end of the evening after the two couples have enjoyed themselves?

3. Why doesn't Obi mind when a long, noisy procession of the "Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim" delays his journey to Clara's house?

4. Despite coming to like Christopher, what does Clara fear about him?

5. What does the author reveal about a special aspect of Nigerian culture, when the two couples go out on a date?

Short Essay Questions

1. As Obi and Marie Tomlinson become more cordial to each other, how does the author use these two characters to vary the portrayal of Mr. Green?

2. As Obi is caught with evidence of having accepted a bribe, how does the author indicate that outsiders have no idea how to account for what has happened to Obi?

3. What is Christopher's reaction When Obi tells Christopher about Elsie Mark's visit ho his home and his decision to turn her down?

4. When Obi leaves Clara to go off with the doctor who is going to perform the abortion, how does the author reveal the extent of Obi's distress?

5. Why does the author place emphasis on describing Obi's deteriorating financial situation after the incidents with Mr. Mark and Elsie, his sister?

6. As Obi returns to office while Clara is hospitalized, how do the issues discussed at work contrast with the serious problems facing Obi?

7. What mixed reactions does Obi display in response to his mother's death?

8. What happens When Obi and Clara visit the first doctor about her pregnancy?

9. What incident involving Mr. Mark at Obi's office foreshadows Obi's eventual involvement with bribes over scholarships?

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

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