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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. After Nnaife is deemed "all right" (145) by the Korofos, what is he told he is going to be doing?
(a) Selling illegal cigarettes.
(b) Working on a farm.
(c) Working in a prison.
(d) Enlisting in the army.

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

3. What does Nnaife say he is going to do the next day following his fight with Oshia?
(a) Stop paying Adim's tuition so he does not end up like Oshia.
(b) Find a new wife who will bring him a good son.
(c) Stop Oshia from flying to the United States.
(d) Quit work and return to Ibuza.

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

5. Who does Nnaife want Kehinde to marry though she refuses?
(a) A railway worker.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A university student.
(d) A dock worker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are some things Nnu Ego's family no longer has after leaving Lagos?

2. What does Nnaife say when he has been home for three months and Nnu Ego suggests he finds work?

3. 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?

4. Who runs after Nnaife after he heads to the butcher's home to get his daughter?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How long is Nnaife told he will be in the army? How is his family informed? How much money do the officers say they will send his family?

2. Who are the Korofos and what do they do at the railway where Nnaife works the morning he does not return home?

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

4. Where does Nnaife move his family to when Lagos becomes too expensive? In what ways is this place different than their life in Lagos?

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

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

7. How does Nnu Ego feel after giving birth to twin girls in 1941? How does Adaku try to reassure her?

8. How long is Nnu Ego in Ibuza after her father's death when Adankwo tells her she should go back to Lagos? Why does Adankwo think Nnu Ego should leave?

9. What does Nnu Ego name the son she gives birth to in Ibuza and why?

10. Who tells Nnu Ego and Adaku that Nnaife has been forced into the army? How do they react? What does Ubani say about the British?

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