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

2. How do the visitors at Obi's home react after he has been there a couple of days?
(a) They feel closer to Obi because he accepts his father's decision.
(b) They are disappointed that Obi has lost touch with them.
(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.

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

4. 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 gives a lecture about abuse of local leave by Africans.
(c) Mr. Green says local leave was never meant for lazy Africans.
(d) Mr. Green complains about Africans being lazy.

5. Where does Obi try to get money from to pay back Clara's loan?
(a) He asks Miss Tomlinson to lend him some money.
(b) He calls Okoli about another loan.
(c) He asks Mr. Green about a staff loan.
(d) He asks Mr. Omo about a salary advance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Obi consider doing in order to meet his mounting debts after speaking with Charles Ibe?

2. What is Obi's response when Clara goes off with the doctor?

3. What does the parcel that arrives from the general hospital while Obi is at work contain?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When Obi goes to Clara's after his visit home, how does the relationship between them take a turn for the worse?

3. Describe briefly the incidents that occur between Obi and Clara on the night before Obi leaves for his visit to his home.

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

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

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

7. At the beginning of Obi's visit to his parents, how does the author communicate Obi's feelings about his mother?

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

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