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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 and 9 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Nnu Ego and Oshia have to leave their hut while Nnaife is away on the Ferndano Po?
(a) The hut is too small for their growing family.
(b) It burned down.
(c) British soldiers kick them out.
(d) The rent becomes too high.

2. Why does Nnu Ego run away from her home at the end of Chapter 4 after having her first child?
(a) Nnaife is drinking too much.
(b) She finds motherhood too challenging.
(c) Nnaife beat her badly.
(d) Her son has died.

3. What does Ubani tell Nnaife he must do after Nnaife finds out his son has died?
(a) Find a better wife.
(b) Kill Nnu Ego.
(c) Send Nnu Ego back to Ibuza.
(d) Find Nnu Ego and get her pregnant again.

4. What does the oracle tell Agbadi about Nnu Ego's second pregnancy?
(a) She will die during childbirth.
(b) She will have a daughter that will bring the family great wealth.
(c) She will have another child that will die in the first few weeks.
(d) She will have a son who will go far in modern learning.

5. What does Ato tell Nnu Ego might happen if she continues to look so sad after the loss of her son?
(a) She will become infertile.
(b) She will become ugly.
(c) People will think madness runs in her family and nobody will marry her sisters.
(d) Nnaife will no longer want to mate with her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which women sit in front of Nnu Ego's hut laughing when she returns from the marina with her baby?

2. Who does Nnu Ego plan to ask why she has punished her in Chapter 1?

3. Why does Agbadi send Nnu Ego's childhood friend Ato to Lagos after her son's death?

4. What does Ona make Agbadi promise as she lay dying at the end of Chapter 2?

5. Why did Obi Umanna not want Ona to marry any man?

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