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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the author of The Lion and the Jewel?
(a) Baroka.
(b) Lakunle.
(c) Sadiku.
(d) Soyinka.

3. What are the village school children learning when the play opens?
(a) The English alphabet.
(b) The times tables.
(c) A Nigerian folktale.
(d) English greetings.

4. What evidence does Sidi give that women are not the "weaker sex" (4)?
(a) They are able to rule their households without social power.
(b) They are the ones who give birth.
(c) They do a lot of hard physical labor.
(d) They are good in a crisis.

5. Why does Sidi have Lakunle play the "lost Traveller" in their dance?
(a) Lakunle is the best dancer in their village.
(b) She feels bad for arguing with him earlier and wants to make it up to him.
(c) She is pointing out that he is making himself an outsider.
(d) Lakunle asks Sidi for the role because he is trying to get back on her good side.

6. 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.

7. What does Lakunle say is true about women's intelligence?
(a) They are better at strategy than men are.
(b) They are good at talking, but not good at math.
(c) They have smaller and less capable brains.
(d) They are men's intellectual equals.

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

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

10. Who is Ogun?
(a) A Yoruba god.
(b) The leader of a nearby village.
(c) The "lost Traveller."
(d) The mayor of Lagos.

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

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

13. Who plays the role of Baroka in the "dance of the lost Traveller"?
(a) Sidi.
(b) Baroka.
(c) Sadiku.
(d) Soyinka.

14. What does Lakunle say that he wants a wife to be?
(a) Property.
(b) A partner.
(c) A leader.
(d) A servant.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lakunle think of the villagers?

2. What is Sidi carrying in the opening of the play?

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

4. Where does the "lost Traveller" come from?

5. Sidi has already changed the way she dresses for Lakunle. What does she say is the consequence of this change?

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