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1. What details at the start of Chapter 1 indicator that Nnu Ego is a recent mother away from her baby?

Readers learn early on that Nnu Ego's breast ache with too much breastmilk and that the milk is trickling from her breasts to her blouse. This indicates that mother has not fed her child in awhile.

2. What does the reader learn Nnu Ego is planning to do as she runs away in Chapter 1?

Readers learn in Chapter 1 that Nnu Ego plans to commit suicide by jumping off of the Carter Bridge.

3. Who is Nnu Edo's chi and what does Nnu Edo believe her chi is doing to her?

Nnu Ego's chi is said to be a slave woman forced into a grave to be buried alive with her dead mistress. Nnu Ego thinks her chi is trying to make her life just as bad as hers had been.

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