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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of the daily-minder Adah finds for her children in Chapter 4?
2. Where does Adah walk on her lunch hour in Chapter 5?
3. In Chapter 4, how many pints of milk does Trudy say that the milkman delivers?
4. How premature was Adah when she was born?
5. In Chapter 5, how is Adah feeling when she wakes?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does Adah get a job, and why is her husband worried about her taking the job?
2. What type of accommodations does Francis have for his family when they arrive from Nigeria?
3. What is the first job Adah gets, and how does she feel about her job?
4. How does Adah get the money to take the entrance examination for the Methodist Girls' High School, and what does she pay for her theft?
5. What does Adah come to think about her birthplace?
6. What is Liverpool like when Adah sees it from her ship in Chapter 3?
7. At the beginning of Chapter 3, why is there a sudden burst of excitement on the ship?
8. How does Adah persuade her mother-in-law to allow her to go to the United Kingdom?
9. Why does Adah get up at 4:30 a.m.?
10. Why does Adah not know for sure how old she is, and how does she estimate her age?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Colors are sometimes associated with mood. If you could assign a color to represent the mood of Second-Class Citizen, what color would it be? Why? Would you choose different colors to describe the mood in different sections?
Essay Topic 2
Some men emigrate from Nigeria to the U.K. in the late 1940s. Why do some Nigerian men immigrate to the U.K. in the late 1940s? What does the end of colonialism and the beginning of independence have to do with their decision?
Essay Topic 3
Adah is told she cannot wear the hospital gown and has to get one of her own. Why is Adah told she cannot wear the hospital gown? Why is it difficult for her to get her own nightgown? What does the gown symbolize?
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