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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. How do Adah and Francis go home from the hospital in Chapter 9?
2. In Chapter 8, when does the doctor think Adah will have her baby?
3. Where does Mr. Noble say that he was born?
4. Where is Mrs. Noble from?
5. What day of the week does Adah go to the public bath at the beginning of Chapter 11?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Adah decide not to get the Pill for birth control?
2. At the beginning of Chapter 8, why does Adah think about when her baby is due, and when is Adah due to have her baby?
3. What is the birth of Adah's child like in Chapter 8, and what does she have?
4. In Chapter 6, what news do Francis and Adah receive in a letter?
5. In Chapter 10, how does Adah feel when she takes Titi to a play group?
6. What happens when Adah and Francis go to look at a room in Chapter 6?
7. Why does Adah not say goodbye to the other women when she leaves the hospital?
8. What happens when Adah goes to work in Chapter 8?
9. What does the woman at the playgroup say and do when Adah arrives in Chapter 10?
10. Why does Adah want to have her baby at home?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
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
Francis and Adah marry in Nigeria and emigrate to the U.K. What is the relationship between Francis and Adah? Why do they struggle in their marriage? Why does their marriage end?
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