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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Okpo?
(a) Nnu Ego and Nnaife's daughter.
(b) Oshia's teacher.
(c) Nnu Ego's closest friend and neighbor.
(d) Nnaife's new young wife.

2. How does Nnu Ego feel when she sees her dead child?
(a) Distraught knowing how sad Nnaife will feel.
(b) Relieved that she does not have to find a way to feed another child.
(c) Disappointed at the bride price she lost.
(d) Relieved that the child was a girl.

3. What type of research position is Oshia offered upon completing school?
(a) Agriculture.
(b) Science.
(c) Education.
(d) Math.

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

5. What does Nnu Ego believe will happen once Oshia completes school?
(a) He will move them all to America.
(b) He will help pay for Adim's education.
(c) He will buy them a bigger home.
(d) Nnaife can stop working.

6. How long is Nnaife told he will be away from his family in Chapter 12?
(a) No more than one year.
(b) 3 - 5 years.
(c) Six months.
(d) About three months.

7. What does Nnaife do as a result of his resentment at Adaku's success without him?
(a) He has her arrested.
(b) He forces her to return.
(c) He marries Adankwu.
(d) He says terrible things about her to the Ibuza community.

8. What is Nnu Egos initial concern after Ubani and Nwakusor share their bad news with Nnaife?
(a) She does not know how they will pay for a funeral.
(b) She does not know how they will support the wives Nnaife will inherit.
(c) She does not know how Oshia will take the news.
(d) She does not know how they will pay for a trip to Ibuza.

9. Who does Nnaife and his co-workers see surrounding them while working at the start of Chapter 12, the day Nnaife goes missing?
(a) European soldiers.
(b) African soldiers.
(c) Police officers.
(d) Angry wives.

10. Which of Nnu Ego's children inform her that she has received a letter in Chapter 15?
(a) Taiwo.
(b) Oshia.
(c) Adim.
(d) Kehinde.

11. What does Nnamdio, the name Nnu Ego gives to the son she births after Agbadi's death, mean?
(a) You are my son.
(b) He is my provider.
(c) This is our light.
(d) This is my father.

12. What happens to Adaku that makes her severely depressed in Chapter 11?
(a) Nnu Ego treats her poorly.
(b) Her daughter runs away.
(c) Nnaife beats her.
(d) Her son dies in infancy.

13. Why does Nnu Ego struggle to sleep the first night Adaku spends in their hut?
(a) She does not trust Adaku and thinks she will steal from them.
(b) She can hear Adaku and Nnaife making love all night.
(c) She stays up cleaning so Nnaife will appreciate her.
(d) Her baby is up all night sick.

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 is not making more babies.
(c) She has been allowing others to take care of her sons.
(d) She has been bad mouthing her father to the community.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What fine does Nnu Ego have to pay Ubani and Nwakusor for the way she behaved toward Adaku's cousin?

2. What do Nnu Ego and Nnaife plan as soon as Nnaife returned from the Fernando Po?

3. Who does Nnaife want Kehinde to marry though she refuses?

4. Who sobs as Nnaife is taken away in a police van after the incident at the Yoruba home?

5. What does Mama Abby help Nnu Ego do with the money Nnaife sends her?

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