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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "Morning".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Lakunle lists a large number of adjectives to describe their marriage customs, Sidi asks, "Is the bag empty? Why did you stop?" What literary technique is being used, here?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Personification.
(d) Metaphor.

2. What does Lakunle think of the villagers?
(a) He thinks they are hard-working and clever.
(b) He thinks they are innocent and childlike.
(c) He thinks they are ignorant savages.
(d) He thinks they are lazy and cruel.

3. What does Sidi suggest that Lakunle should do if he does not like the village?
(a) Suffer in silence.
(b) Move.
(c) Work to change it.
(d) Learn to see it in a new way.

4. Who is Sidi?
(a) The favorite wife of the village leader.
(b) The best friend of the "jewel" of the village.
(c) The senior wife of the village leader.
(d) The "jewel" of the village.

5. Sidi has already changed the way she dresses for Lakunle. What does she say is the consequence of this change?
(a) She can hardly breathe.
(b) The other villagers make fun of her.
(c) She has trouble getting her work done.
(d) Her clothes make her sad, now.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sidi carrying in the opening of the play?

2. Which word could reasonably be used to describe Lakunle's way of talking?

3. Who plays the role of Baroka in the "dance of the lost Traveller"?

4. Where does the "lost Traveller" come from?

5. How did Sidi meet the "lost Traveller"?

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