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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 much did the two white women who lived in Mr. Noble's house pay in rent?

2. Where does Mr. Noble say that he was born?

3. What month do Adah and Francis go to talk to the Nobles about renting a place?

4. In Chapter 7, what color slippers is Mr. Noble wearing when Adah and Francis go to speak to him about renting a place?

5. What does the leader of the play group serve Adah in Chapter 10 before sending her home?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What work does Francis do and how does he complain in Chapter 10?

3. In Chapter 11, why does Adah decide her marriage is finished?

4. In Chapter 9, where does Adah wake, and what is it like?

5. Why do Francis and Adah not get along with the others in the house where they live in Chapter 6?

6. What does Adah learn about a woman on the ward in Chapter 9 who looks to be the age of Adah's mother?

7. Why did some Nigerian men come to England in the late 1940s?

8. Why does Adah not say goodbye to the other women when she leaves the hospital?

9. What happens when Adah goes to work in Chapter 8?

10. In Chapter 10, how does Adah have Christmas presents for her chldren, and what does each child get?

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

After Dada is born, Adah goes to a clinic for birth control. Why does Adah decide she needs birth control? Why does she have to forge Francis’s signature to get birth control? What does Francis say when he learns she has gotten birth control? What does her pursuit of birth control reveal about sexism?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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