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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. How does Obi finally get caught for his involvement in bribery?
(a) Mr. Omo sees Obi accepting money from a scholarship applicant at the club.
(b) An undercover policeman pays him a bribe with marked bills.
(c) Mr. Green has a spy follow Obi home and sees him accepting money.
(d) A visitor returns with a stranger who finds Obi with marked bills after paying Obi money.

2. How does Clara embarrass Obi when he finally sees her in the hospital?
(a) In front of all the women, Clara accuses Obi of forcing her to have an abortion.
(b) In front of all the women, Clara says she will never marry Obi
(c) Clara orders Obi to leave in front of all the women.
(d) Clara turns her face to the wall in front of all the women.

3. How does Obi eventually feel about his mother's death?
(a) He is angry about losing Clara for nothing.
(b) He feels lonely and disappointed bu also relieved.
(c) He feels peace as his mother's memory fades.
(d) He cannot recall his mother and feels only anger.

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 goes back to Christopher and breaks down emotionally.
(d) Fearing losing Clara, he tries to follow the doctor's car, but gets lost and is nearly killed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Joseph show support for Obi after his mother dies?

2. What is Obi's financial situation like as he is on his way home?

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

4. Why does Obi tell Christopher a story about a catechist twenty years before who was in such a hurry to marry that she cut her education short and was bitter?

5. What are the contents of the letter from Obi that Clara later returns?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Obi reveals his suspicion that Clara is pregnant, how does Christopher react?

2. When Obi visits home, how does the issue of Clara being osu affect Obi's discussions with his father?

3. 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?

4. How do the incidents at the Roman Catholic convent in demonstrate limitations on social relationships in Lagos?

5. Why is Obi distressed by the reaction of his mother when they discuss Obi's plan to marry Clara?

6. What are the examples evident of the author's use of humor When Christopher and Obi take Clara and Bisi dancing at the Imperial?

7. Describe the two specific events after the death of Obi's mother that indicates that Obi has broken his resolve against accepting bribes.

8. After Obi visits Clara in hospital and she turns her face to the wall, how do events escalate development towards Obi's downfall?

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

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

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