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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 secret does Sadkiu share with Sidi?
(a) The amount of bride-price Baroka is willing to pay.
(b) Baroka's real age.
(c) Baroka's impotence.
(d) The use of the strange machine in Baroka's bedroom.

2. What is the name of the previous Bale, Baroka's father?
(a) Ilujinle.
(b) Odum.
(c) Ailatu.
(d) Okiki.

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

4. When Lakunle calls Sidi, "My Ruth, my Rachel, Esther, Bathsheba," (20), whom is he comparing Sidi to?
(a) Important women in the Bible.
(b) The heroines of famous Western novels.
(c) Famous Ethiopian actresses.
(d) His own sisters.

5. What does Sidi say a man has to do in order to marry her?
(a) Kill a lion.
(b) Become a leader.
(c) Speak with her father.
(d) Pay her bride-price.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Sidi suggest that Lakunle should do if he does not like the village?

3. Why is Baroka jealous of Sidi?

4. What is the formal title of the village leader?

5. What is the name of the village?

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