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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Agbadi prefer Ona to his other wives and mistresses?
(a) Ona is a good mother.
(b) Ona is timid.
(c) Ona is a good cook.
(d) Ona is strong willed.

2. What does Nnu Ego think of her new husband when she first meets him?
(a) She cannot believe how refined he is.
(b) She cannot believe how unattractive he is.
(c) She cannot believe how strong he is.
(d) She cannot believe how kind he is.

3. What news does Oshia receive while at the Technical Institute, which he is afraid to share with his family?
(a) His girlfriend is pregnant.
(b) He has been fired.
(c) He has been offered a scholarship to school in the U.S.
(d) Adim is failing school.

4. What does Agbadi write to tell his daughter in Chapter 11?
(a) He will be coming to visit her.
(b) He wants her to send Oshia to live with him.
(c) He wants her to move back to Ibuza.
(d) He is dying.

5. Why does Nnu Ego choose to give birth for the seventh time all alone?
(a) She prefers giving birth in silence.
(b) She does not want her daughters to think she is a coward.
(c) She plans to give the child away.
(d) She does not want to wake anyone up.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nnamdio, the name Nnu Ego gives to the son she births after Agbadi's death, mean?

2. What does Adaku say about her daughters when she comes to say farewell to Oshia, which impresses Mama Abby?

3. Who does Nnu Ego marry at the start of Chapter 3?

4. How old is Nnu Ego at the start of Chapter 3 when Idayi tells Agbadi she must marry?

5. Who does Taiwo realize is missing after she and Okpo and the other children eat dinner following a fight between Nnaife and Nnu Ego?

(see the answer key)

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