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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Elizabeth say about Juju's plan in Chapter Nineteen?
(a) The plan will never work the way Juju wants it to.
(b) Eventually all secrets come out.
(c) Mary will eventually coax them all into her church.
(d) No one can afford the kind of money she is talking about.

2. Who propositions Vivek sexually in a flashback Vivek remembers in Chapter Twelve?
(a) Tobechukwu.
(b) Osita.
(c) Olunne.
(d) Somto.

3. What does Osita tell Vivek about what they talk about in the village concerning Vivek?
(a) How Chika is cheating on Kavita.
(b) How Vivek and Osita are lovers.
(c) How Ahunna died on the same day Vivek was born.
(d) How Ekene is cheating on Mary.

4. How does Juju feel when she first discovers her own feelings about her girlfriend?
(a) Angry.
(b) Shy and scared.
(c) Depressed.
(d) Suspicious.

5. When does Ebenezer begin to realize that Mama Ben is a terrible woman?
(a) When she steals from him.
(b) When she tells him a terrible lie about his best friend.
(c) When she threatens to tell his wife he is having an affair, even though he is not.
(d) When she tries to persuade him not to go see how his wife is during the riot.

6. What does Osita ask if Vivek believes in in Chapter Seventeen?
(a) Hell.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Justice.
(d) Reincarnation.

7. What does Kavita sometimes feel about the way other people mourn Vivek?
(a) Other people are not mourning Vivek appropriately.
(b) Other people can mourn Vivek by going to church more often.
(c) Other people do not have the right to cry about Vivek because they cannot feel as deeply about the loss of Vivek as she does.
(d) Other people are mourning Vivek in strange ways, like bringing flowers to his grave.

8. How does Juju know the boy she sees is her half-brother?
(a) Her mother tells her it is her half-brother.
(b) Her father is with him and he looks exactly like her father.
(c) Her father calls him by her father's own name.
(d) Her father tells her it is her half-brother.

9. What does Vivek witness happening that makes townspeople scatter in Chapter Eleven?
(a) Law enforcement taking people into custody.
(b) A plague of locusts.
(c) A hurricane coming.
(d) A violent mob.

10. What does the woman Chika is having an affair with often bring to him at the office?
(a) Chicken.
(b) Glassware.
(c) Baked goods.
(d) Paper.

11. What is Vivek's reaction to the secret Osita tells him in Chapter Thirteen?
(a) He tells Osita he will have to tell the secret to Mary.
(b) He tells Osita he should have told Olunne instead.
(c) He gets angry and says that Osita should not have expected him to fix this for him.
(d) He tells Osita to ask Elizabeth out on a date again.

12. What work does Chika do on Ahunna's house in Chapter Twenty-One?
(a) He puts in new bathrooms.
(b) He repaints it.
(c) He puts in new floorboards.
(d) He puts in new mirrors.

13. What does Vivek think about his own manhood?
(a) He would rather be a real woman than a real man.
(b) He was never a man to begin with.
(c) He can at least convince his parents he is a real man.
(d) He can retain his manhood by going back to military school.

14. Why is Juju hard on Osita in Chapter Thirteen?
(a) Because of how he had treated Vivek in the village years ago.
(b) Because Osita has not seen any of them in ten years.
(c) Because of Ostia's role in Vivek's excorcism.
(d) Because of Osita's having asked Vivek for money.

15. Who is Tobechukwu's mother?
(a) Maja.
(b) Osinachi.
(c) Rhatha.
(d) Mary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Juju tell Elizabeth she thinks it is time for in Chapter Eighteen?

2. What does Osita do with Vivek in Chapter Thirteen that surprises them both?

3. What does Chika try to force Kavita to stop doing about three months after Vivek's death?

4. Who is Chika having an affair with?

5. Why does Vivek tell Osita he has been angry at him?

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