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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the villagers feel about Lakunle?
(a) They respect and fear him.
(b) They think he has done great things for their village.
(c) They think he is strange and full of silly, pretentious ideas.
(d) They admire his education but think that he is corrupt.

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

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

4. Which word could reasonably be used to describe Lakunle's way of talking?
(a) Respectful.
(b) Condescending.
(c) Cheerful.
(d) Pessimistic.

5. 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) Schoolboys hang out the window of the school, mocking Lakunle.
(d) Baroka is hiding behind a market stall, listening.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the village schoolmaster?

2. What additional request does Sadiku make of Sidi, after Sidi turns down Baroka's proposal?

3. While Baroka is angrily defending himself from the rumors about the pepper and ground corn, what is Sidi doing?

4. To what part of a lion does Sidi compare Baroka when she speaks with Sadiku?

5. What job does Baroka give to his favorite wife?

(see the answer key)

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