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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: "Night".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sadiku say will happen to Lakunle if he stays for the women's ritual?
(a) He will become one of the women.
(b) They will tell Baroka.
(c) They will chop him up and sacrifice him.
(d) He will lose his mind.

2. Why does Baroka call Sidi "my daughter"?
(a) He wants to remind her of her father.
(b) Sidi teases him by calling him "father," so he is playing along.
(c) He suspects that he might actually be her father.
(d) It is a custom to call everyone a generation younger "daughter" or "son."

3. What is the second setting in the "Noon" section of the play?
(a) Sidi's home.
(b) Baroka's dining room.
(c) The schoolhouse.
(d) Baroka's bedroom.

4. Whom does Sidi credit with having taught her to value herself and think critically about her choices?
(a) Lakunle and her mother.
(b) The stranger from Lagos and her father.
(c) Her mother and father.
(d) Lakunle and the stranger from Lagos.

5. What is happening onstage while Lakunle tells the story of Baroka's corruption?
(a) Actors recreate a pantomimed version of his story.
(b) Baroka is hiding behind a market stall, listening.
(c) The man from Lagos has reappeared.
(d) Schoolboys hang out the window of the school, mocking Lakunle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Baroka means when he says, "The monkey sweats" (54)?

3. What does Lakunle say is inappropriate about the way Sidi is dressed?

4. To whom does Sadiku pray on Sidi's behalf?

5. When Baroka asks if the hypothetical suitor is "repulsive," (44), what is Sidi's answer?

(see the answer key)

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