Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
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. At the beginning of Chapter 7, when did a group of men come to England who were well educated and believed colonialism would end?
3. Where did Mr. Noble buy a house?
4. Where do Adah and Francis sit at the Nobles when they come to inquire about renting a place?
5. How long was a woman on Adah's ward in Chapter 9 married before she had a child?
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 is the birth of Adah's child like in Chapter 8, and what does she have?
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. In Chapter 6, what news do Francis and Adah receive in a letter?
5. Why does Adah decide not to get the Pill for birth control?
6. What happens when Adah and Francis go to look at a room in Chapter 6?
7. What happens when Adah goes to work in Chapter 8?
8. Why does Adah not say goodbye to the other women when she leaves the hospital?
9. In Chapter 11, why does Adah decide her marriage is finished?
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
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 2
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 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?
|
This section contains 942 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
