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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: "Noon".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does the "lost Traveller" come from?
(a) Lagos.
(b) Zimbabwe.
(c) England.
(d) A nearby village.

3. What does Lakunle say is inappropriate about the way Sidi is dressed?
(a) It is immodest.
(b) It is too masculine.
(c) It is old-fashioned.
(d) It is eccentric.

4. In the opening of "Noon," to what does Sidi compare Lakunle?
(a) A book.
(b) A eunuch.
(c) A lion.
(d) A schoolboy.

5. When Sidi says that Sadiku has a "honey tongue," (20), what literary technique is being used?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Personification.
(c) Synechdoche.
(d) Allegory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ogun?

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

3. What is the name of the village?

4. 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?

5. When Lakunle talks about machines that will someday help women with their work, what is Sidi's reply?

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