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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. What does Agbadi send to Nnu Ego to protect her during her second pregnancy?
(a) Tea.
(b) An image of her chi.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Charms.

2. What does Nnu Ego do with her first husband while his second wife is giving birth in Chapter 3?
(a) Nnu Ego and her husband help deliver the baby.
(b) Nnu Ego and her husband harvest yams.
(c) Nnu Ego and her husband sell things at the market.
(d) Nnu Ego and her husband try to conceive.

3. Who tells Nnaife about his dead son?
(a) Agbadi.
(b) Nnu Ego.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Ubani.

4. What does Nnu Ego's chi tell her in a dream in Chapter 7?
(a) She will have all the dirty chubby babies she wants.
(b) It is her fault her child died.
(c) She will never have another child.
(d) She is not made for motherhood.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What year is it at the start of Chapter 1, "The Mother"?

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

3. Why does Nnu Ego's son still not have a name when he is six weeks old?

4. Why does Agbadi say Ona was able to sit by him while he was suffering and his wives were not?

5. What gift does Agbadi receive from Nnu Ego's husband's family when she is found to be a virgin?

(see the answer key)

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