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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 wakes Francis in Chapter 5?

2. How premature was Adah when she was born?

3. In Chapter 1, what school does Boy go to?

4. In Chapter 5, what hospital is Vicky taken to?

5. How much more expensive was the school Adah attended before her father's death than the school she attends after her father's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of accommodations does Francis have for his family when they arrive from Nigeria?

2. Why does Adah either not eat lunch or take a bolied egg to eat at work in Chapter 5?

3. Why does Adah not know for sure how old she is, and how does she estimate her age?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 3, why is there a sudden burst of excitement on the ship?

5. What does Adah come to think about her birthplace?

6. 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?

7. How are most children of Nigerians cared for when their parents work?

8. How does Adah persuade her mother-in-law to allow her to go to the United Kingdom?

9. In Chapter 3, what is the train ride to London like for Adah and her family?

10. Why does Adah get up at 4:30 a.m.?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

The setting in a book is the place or places where the action takes place. Where does the story take place? Is the setting simply a backdrop to the story and characters or does it take on the role of a character?

Essay Topic 3

Adah does not have a support system in the U.K. What support system did Adah have in Nigeria? Why does she not have a support system in the U.K.? How is she affected by the lack of a support system?

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