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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nwakusor find Nnu Ego trying to do when he is heading home from work in Chapter 5?
(a) Run back to Ibuza.
(b) Steal someone's child.
(c) Commit suicide.
(d) Steal from a beggar.

2. What is the meaning of Nnu Ego and Nnaife's son's name?
(a) Educated one.
(b) The bush has refused this.
(c) Eldest child.
(d) Protected by God.

3. What does Ona make Agbadi promise as she lay dying at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) She makes him promise to find Nnu Ego a good husband.
(b) She makes him promise to allow Nnu Ego to marry the man of her choosing.
(c) She makes him promise to give Nnu Ego a good education.
(d) She makes him promise to never let Nnu Ego leave Ibuza.

4. Who does Nnu Ego plan to ask why she has punished her in Chapter 1?
(a) Her chi.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her daughter.

5. What does Iyawo suggest is the reason Oshia becomes so ill in Chapter 9?
(a) Insect bite.
(b) Malnutrition.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Bad bushmeat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nwakusor tell Nnu Ego when he finds her by the bridge in Chapter 5?

2. What does Nnu Ego's landlord do for her when Oshia is sick in Chapter 9?

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

4. What does Dr. Meers call Nnaife, which angers his wife, though Nnaife does not understand the meaning of the word?

5. Where does Nnu Ego move to to start her life with a new husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ona react when Agbadi is injured? What does she do to help him?

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

3. What happens to Oshia at his friend Folorunsho's sarah? Why does Nnu Ego think this happened?

4. How does Nnu Ego feel after she gives birth to her first son? What does she discover happened to her son at the end of Chapter 2?

5. After Oshiago is born, why does Nnu Ego feel she should no longer try to sell cigarettes?

6. What arrangement does Ona work out with Agbadi when she is pregnant? What happens after she gives birth? Who is her child and how does Agbadi feel?

7. At which point in marriage did Agbadi often tire of his wives?

8. How does Nnu Ego feel about Nnaife when she first meets him? In what ways is he different from many she knew in Ibuza?

9. What does Nnu Ego decide to do with the four shillings she saved from rent while Oshia was sick? In what way has the marina changed after a year?

10. What Ibo man finds Nnu Ego at the bridge in Chapter 5? What does he tell her about what she is attempting to do?

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