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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 8, what is the date when the railway workers strike and Adah goes home instead of to work?

2. How often does Mr. Noble say that he ate meat when he lived in Nigeria?

3. At what library does Adah have a job in Chapter 11?

4. How do Adah and Francis go home from the hospital in Chapter 9?

5. In Chapter 9, what color cardigan do Adah's co-workers buy her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the birth of Adah's child like in Chapter 8, and what does she have?

2. Why did Mr. Noble not suceed and get an education?

3. What trap did Mr. Noble fall into when he bought a house in Wiles Road?

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

5. In Chapter 6, how does Adah disguise her voice when she calls to check on a room for rent on Hawley Street?

6. 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?

7. In Chapter 6, what news do Francis and Adah receive in a letter?

8. Why does Adah want to have her baby at home?

9. What does the woman at the playgroup say and do when Adah arrives in Chapter 10?

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

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

Adah decides that the U.K. would provide better opportunities for her and her children than they can have in Nigeria. What does Adah think living in the U.K. will be like? How does reality change her expectations?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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