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

2. Who is Sidi?
(a) The senior wife of the village leader.
(b) The "jewel" of the village.
(c) The best friend of the "jewel" of the village.
(d) The favorite wife of the village leader.

3. 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.

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

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) Lakunle asks Sidi for the role because he is trying to get back on her good side.
(d) She is pointing out that he is making himself an outsider.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Lakunle think of the villagers?

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

4. Which word could reasonably be used to describe Lakunle's way of talking?

5. Who is Ogun?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Lakunle think of Baroka?

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

4. Describe the setting in which the play opens.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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