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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 Lakunle imply is usually responsible for women's strange behavior?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) A lack of intelligence.
(c) Their husbands' treatment of them.
(d) The cycling of the moon.

2. What kind of school does Lakunle wish the village had?
(a) Vocational.
(b) Visual arts.
(c) Foreign languages.
(d) Ballroom dancing.

3. While Baroka is angrily defending himself from the rumors about the pepper and ground corn, what is Sidi doing?
(a) Singing and dancing.
(b) Listening skeptically.
(c) Looking around his room at the hunting trophies.
(d) Laughing at him.

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

5. When the play opens, who has Sidi promised to marry?
(a) The lost traveller.
(b) Lakunle.
(c) Baroka.
(d) The photographer.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the opening of "Night," where is Sidi?

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

3. When Sadiku addresses Baroka as "high and mighty lion," what literary device is being used?

4. In "Noon," what example of Baroka's corruption does Lakunle give?

5. In the end of the play, whom does Sidi marry?

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