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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Sidi carrying in the opening of the play?
(a) A magazine.
(b) Water.
(c) Books.
(d) Rice.

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

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

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

5. What is the name of the village?
(a) Ilujinle.
(b) Bale.
(c) Alakowe..
(d) Baba.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lakunle say is inappropriate about the way Sidi is dressed?

2. Who is the author of The Lion and the Jewel?

3. What kind of shoes is Lakune wearing with his suit?

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

5. What evidence does Sidi give that women are not the "weaker sex" (4)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens with Lakunle when Baroka interrupts the dance?

2. How did the "lost Traveller" come to be in the village?

3. What are the qualities that Lakunle thinks of as "civilized"?

4. How does Sidi feel about Lakunle's modern ideas?

5. When the play opens, what is the understanding between Sidi and Lakunle regarding marriage?

6. What is the "dance of the lost Traveller," and who plays the Traveller?

7. Describe the setting in which the play opens.

8. What is the contradiction in Lakunle's view of women?

9. What does Lakunle think of Baroka?

10. What response does Baroka have to the magazine featuring pictures of the village?

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