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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 Mama Abby help Nnu Ego do with the money Nnaife sends her?
(a) Buy a sewing machine.
(b) Buy cartons of cigarettes.
(c) Buy new clothes.
(d) Open a savings account.

2. How much money had Nnaife tried to send to Nnu Ego while she was away though it did not get to her until after the war?
(a) 120 pounds.
(b) 60 pounds.
(c) 20 pounds.
(d) 10 pounds.

3. What does Nnaife grab before running off to the butcher's house to get his daughter?
(a) A cutlass.
(b) His wife.
(c) A shotgun.
(d) All of his money.

4. In Chapter 17, which character finds it amazing that some day Ibuza may have a Black District Officer?
(a) Adaku.
(b) Nnu Ego.
(c) Oshia.
(d) Nnaife.

5. What does Oshia tell his mother on a visit from school when she is pregnant for the 7th time?
(a) He has failed out of school.
(b) He does not wish to see his family again.
(c) He will be done school and can starting helping out financially.
(d) He plans to go to university.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Oshia tell Nnu Ego about Adaku which worries her enough to take him to a medicine man?

3. What does Nnu Ego believe her father would tell her if she complained of Nnaife's second wife?

4. What does Nnaife try to tell the officers when they come for him at the Yoruba home?

5. What does Nnaife begin to do more and more after Oshia has gone to the U.S.?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which of Nnaife's brother's wives moves to Lagos? What is she like when she first arrives?

2. What news does Ubani and Nwakusor come to break to Nnaife in Chapter 10? How will this effect Nnaife and Nnu Ego?

3. What do Adaku and Nnu Ego do when Nnaife does not return home at the end of Chapter 11?

4. How does Nnaife react when Oshia tells him he has received a scholarship to study in the United States?

5. What does Mama Abby help Nnu Ego do with the money Nnaife has sent home from the army? What does Adaku do with her money?

6. What condition is Nnu Ego's father in when she arrives at Ibuza?

7. What happens when Nnaife arrives at the Yoruba family home with a cutlass?

8. What does Nnaife do with his time when he returns home from Fernando Po? How does Nnu Ego feel about this?

9. What happens when Nnu Ego gives birth for the seventh time?

10. What do Ubani and Nwakusor decide regarding Nnu Ego's encounter with Adaku's cousin? What do they think of both Adaku and Nnu Ego's behavior? What is the punishment?

(see the answer keys)

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