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Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Ibuza community believe Nnu Ego should do while Nnaife is away in Chapter 12?
(a) Stop selling cigarettes.
(b) Move back to Ibuza.
(c) Get an education.
(d) Stay and watch Adaku.

2. Why does Nnu Ego appreciate having Okpa in her family?
(a) Okpa brings in a lot of money from the market.
(b) Okpa does all the cooking and cleaning.
(c) Okpa keeps Nnaife from bothering her.
(d) She knows she will take care of her children if she and Nnaife die.

3. Which of Nnaife's wives comes to live with them in Lago?
(a) Adanku.
(b) Adaku.
(c) Dumbi.
(d) Atanku.

4. Whose son does Kehinde tell her father she wants to marry?
(a) The butcher's son.
(b) Ubani's son.
(c) Nwakusor's son.
(d) A soldier's son.

5. What does Adaku say about her daughters when she comes to say farewell to Oshia, which impresses Mama Abby?
(a) They make a lot of money in the market.
(b) They each have two sons.
(c) They married wealthy men.
(d) They go to a convent school.

6. What does Nnaife say to Oshia as they argue about the fact that Oshia does not help the family financially?
(a) Nnaife tells Oshia he should have sent Adim to school instead.
(b) Nnaife tells Oshia he is killing his family by not supporting them.
(c) Nnaife forbids Oshia from going to the U.S. for school.
(d) Nnaife tells Oshia he wished he had died instead of Ngozi.

7. How does Adim manage to stop his father from hurting anyone else at the butcher's house?
(a) He tells him he will get arrested.
(b) He whacks him and forces the cutlass to fall.
(c) He puts his hand on his shoulder and tells him to stay calm.
(d) He wrestles his fun from him.

8. What does Nnaife begin to do more and more after Oshia has gone to the U.S.?
(a) Play music.
(b) Work.
(c) Smoke cigarettes.
(d) Drink palm wine.

9. What does Adaku suggest she and Nnu Ego do to retaliate against Nnaife for not giving them enough housekeeping money?
(a) Adaku suggests they do not speak to him.
(b) Adaku suggests they withhold sex.
(c) Adaku suggests they stop cooking.
(d) Adaku suggests they leave him.

10. What is one of the first things that happens to Nnaife the day he is taken and brought to an open field at the start of Chapter 12?
(a) He is beaten.
(b) He is given a medical exam.
(c) He is arrested.
(d) He is robbed.

11. What does Nnu Ego spend her money on when she hears the war is over?
(a) Oshia's final semesters of school.
(b) Two kegs of palm wine.
(c) A new stall at the market.
(d) A dozen cartons of cigarettes to sell.

12. What do Nnu Ego and Nnaife plan as soon as Nnaife returned from the Fernando Po?
(a) Their baby's naming ceremony.
(b) Conceiving another child.
(c) Buying a new house.
(d) A trip to Ibuza.

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

14. In what ways does Adankwu say Nnu Ego is offending her father by staying in Ibuza?
(a) She is shirking her responsibilities as senior wife.
(b) She has been bad mouthing her father to the community.
(c) She is not making more babies.
(d) She has been allowing others to take care of her sons.

15. How much money is Nnaife told his family will receive after he is taken by the Korofos?
(a) 20 shillings.
(b) 20 pounds.
(c) 5 pounds.
(d) 40 shillings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Nnaife and his co-workers see surrounding them while working at the start of Chapter 12, the day Nnaife goes missing?

2. Who is Agbadi speaking to when Nnu Ego visits him upon arriving in Ibuza?

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

4. How long is Nnaife told he will be away from his family in Chapter 12?

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?

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