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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Agbadi send Nnu Ego's childhood friend Ato to Lagos after her son's death?
(a) He sends Ato to beg Nnu Ego to return home.
(b) He sends Ato to find Nnu Ego a new husband.
(c) He sends Ato to bring Nnu Ego tea that will help her get pregnant again.
(d) He sends Ato to tell Nnu Ego to stop mourning her loss.

2. What does Nwakusor tell Nnu Ego when he finds her by the bridge in Chapter 5?
(a) She is disgracing the man who paid for her.
(b) She is shaming her womanhood and motherhood.
(c) She is shaming her community.
(d) She is tarnishing the Ibuza reputation.

3. What is Nnu Ego planning to do in Chapter 1 to relieve her pain and anger?
(a) Drown herself.
(b) Move to another village.
(c) Shoot herself.
(d) Steal food.

4. What does Agbadi tell Nnu Ego when she tells him her husband's wife had a son?
(a) He tells her she can always come home.
(b) He tells her she must conceive soon.
(c) He tells her she must be cursed.
(d) He tells her to be patient with herself.

5. What agreement do Ona and Agbadi make regarding the child she is carrying?
(a) Ona says she will bring the child to visit as long as they never tell that Agbadi is the father.
(b) She will marry him so they can raise the child together.
(c) If it is a girl Agbadi can have her, if it is a boy, he will belong to her father.
(d) Agbadi agrees he will leave Ona and her child alone.

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

7. What does Nwakusor do for work?
(a) He is a servant.
(b) He is a dockworker.
(c) He is a cook.
(d) He is a farmer.

8. What is Nnu Ego's first son's name?
(a) Ubani.
(b) Ngozi.
(c) Nwakusor.
(d) Nnaife.

9. Why did Obi Umanna not want Ona to marry any man?
(a) He wanted her to take care of him.
(b) He did not think anyone was good enough for her.
(c) He never wanted her to have to stoop to any man.
(d) He was in love with her.

10. What does Nnu Ego believe about her chi?
(a) She was a slave woman forced into a grave with her master.
(b) She is her wicked grandmother.
(c) She is her protecter.
(d) She is made up by her family.

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

12. Who tells Oshia his mother has just given birth at the start of Chapter 9?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Iyawo.
(c) Ato.
(d) Mama Abby.

13. Who does Nnu Ego find at the marina the first time she goes there in a year?
(a) Police officers.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Prostitutes.
(d) Sailors.

14. Where does Nnaife follow a group of men to when he searches for work after arguing with Nnu Ego?
(a) A golf course.
(b) A military base.
(c) A church.
(d) The market.

15. Why does Nnu Ego's first husband move her to a different hut after a while?
(a) Because she has had a son.
(b) Because she appears to be infertile.
(c) Because he dislikes her.
(d) Because she is senior wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do some believe is the cause of Agunwa's illness in Chapter 2 when Agbadi is still healing?

2. What animal harms Agbadi while he is hunting?

3. Why does a blind beggar curse Nnu Ego as she runs in the Oyingbo market in Chapter 1?

4. Why is Nnu Ego against Nnaife's suggestion that he find work in the army?

5. What does Nnu Ego think of her new husband when she first meets him?

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