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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the formal title of the village leader?
(a) Ilujinle.
(b) Bale.
(c) Baba.
(d) Alakowe.

2. Why is Baroka jealous of Sidi?
(a) The villagers suggest that Sidi would make a better leader.
(b) Lakunle believes that Sidi is smarter than Baroka.
(c) Important people from Lagos want to meet Sidi.
(d) Sidi appears more times in the magazine.

3. Why does Lakunle object to Sidi carrying things on her head?
(a) He says it is an example of how women are discriminated against.
(b) He says it is bad for her spine.
(c) He says it is the way men, not women, carry things.
(d) He says it makes her look like a beast of burden.

4. How did Sidi meet the "lost Traveller"?
(a) His car broke down and he stopped Sidi to ask for help.
(b) He came to the village on assignment for his magazine and Sidi was pointed out as the "jewel" of the village.
(c) He fell in the river trying to sneak a picture of Sidi bathing.
(d) He passed out from drinking and Sidi is the one her found him.

5. What is Sidi carrying in the opening of the play?
(a) Rice.
(b) Books.
(c) Water.
(d) A magazine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lakunle say that he wants a wife to be?

2. When the play opens, who has Sidi promised to marry?

3. Who is Sidi?

4. What evidence does Sidi give that women are not the "weaker sex" (4)?

5. What does Lakunle think of the villagers?

(see the answer key)

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