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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Nnaife say to Oshia as they argue about the fact that Oshia does not help the family financially?
2. What does Nnu Ego believe will happen once Oshia completes school?
3. Why does Nnu Ego feel inadequate around Nnaife's new wife he inherited from his brother?
4. Who does Nnaife want Kehinde to marry though she refuses?
5. What does Oshia do in Chapter 11 to help after his family argues about money?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the first letter Nnaife sends home from the army say?
2. What does Nnu Ego name the son she gives birth to in Ibuza and why?
3. What are the contents of the package Nnu Ego receives at the barracks in Chapter 15?
4. 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?
5. How does Nnu Ego feel after giving birth to twin girls in 1941? How does Adaku try to reassure her?
6. What does Nnaife do with his time when he returns home from Fernando Po? How does Nnu Ego feel about this?
7. Describe the scene when Adaku's cousin visits while she is still at the market.
8. 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?
9. Who are the Korofos and what do they do at the railway where Nnaife works the morning he does not return home?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine how the theme of motherhood plays a part in the plot of the novel.
Essay Topic 2
Away from the main character, examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does she introduce and take them away from the story? What impact does this have on the story?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the elements of narrative structure in The Joys of Motherhood: Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the novel's themes of motherhood, womanhood, education and/ or poverty?
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