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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 18, what statue is in the market place?

2. In Chapter 4, how many goats is Morufu to bring to Papa?

3. In Chapter 5, what color beads does Enitan plan to put in Adunni's hair for her wedding?

4. In Chapter 7, how many people are in the parlor when Adunni arrives?

5. What is Adunni grinding at the beginning of Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Khadija tell Adunni about the routine in the house?

2. How does Adunni get time to see her friends and her brother in Chapter 11?

3. Who is Bamidele?

4. How does Adunni get to Iya's place?

5. What is Morufu's room like?

6. Where does Adunni hide, and why does she escape detection in Chapter 20?

7. Why does Adunni have to run in Chapter 16?

8. Who is Adunni to marry and why does she not wish to marry?

9. In Chapter 7, what does Khadija tell Adunni about herself and being Morufu's wife?

10. In Chapter 22, what does Kola tell Adunni about working?

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 people?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Gender roles are expectations for how men and women are to behave and the roles they have in society. What role do women have in rural Nigerian villages? What opportunities are women denied? How do gender roles affect how women are treated?

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