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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. In Chapter 9, what did the woman in bed 11 do before she married her husband?
2. Where did Mr. Noble buy a house?
3. What type of potatoes does Mrs. Noble say that her children like?
4. How much housekeeping money does Francis allow Adah in Chapter 10?
5. How long is Adah in the hospital after Bubu is born?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Adah not say goodbye to the other women when she leaves the hospital?
2. Why did Mr. Noble not suceed and get an education?
3. What do the other women in the hospital ward have that Ada does not in Chapter 9?
4. In Chapter 10, how does Adah have Christmas presents for her chldren, and what does each child get?
5. What happened to the women who lived in Mr. Noble's house in a rent-controlled apartment?
6. What does the woman at the playgroup say and do when Adah arrives in Chapter 10?
7. Why does Adah decide not to get the Pill for birth control?
8. Why do Francis and Adah not get along with the others in the house where they live in Chapter 6?
9. Why does Adah want to have her baby at home?
10. In Chapter 6, what news do Francis and Adah receive in a letter?
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
What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and characters?
Essay Topic 3
Idioms are words that have a figurative, rather than a literal meaning. How does the author use idioms in the book? Why are the idioms sometimes difficult to understand? Why do the idioms often require research to understand their meaning?
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