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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 Adah's doctor in Chapter 8?
2. In Chapter 10, how many children do the Nobles have?
3. What does the leader of the play group serve Adah in Chapter 10 before sending her home?
4. What color coat is Adah wearing in Chapter 7?
5. When does Adah think her baby will be born in Chapter 8?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Adah decide not to get the Pill for birth control?
2. Why does Adah not say goodbye to the other women when she leaves the hospital?
3. What does Adah learn about a woman on the ward in Chapter 9 who looks to be the age of Adah's mother?
4. Why do Francis and Adah not get along with the others in the house where they live in Chapter 6?
5. Why does Adah want to have her baby at home?
6. What happens when Adah and Francis go to look at a room in Chapter 6?
7. What does the woman at the playgroup say and do when Adah arrives in Chapter 10?
8. What does Francis do when he discovers that Adah has gotten birth control?
9. When and where does Adah take a bath and why?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Adah, Francis, and their children live in a house with other Nigerians when they first come to the U.K. How are Adah, Frances, and their children treated? What does jealousy have to do with the way they are treated?
Essay Topic 2
Conflicts between characters are often caused by a problem. What are some conflicts that occur in the novel? Are the conflicts in the book mostly man vs. man, man vs. nature, or man vs. self? Are they internal or external conflicts?
Essay Topic 3
Abuse can be physical, emotional, or both. How does Francis abuse Adah? Is the abuse he heaps on her physical, emotional, or both?
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