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

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

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

4. When Lakunle lists a large number of adjectives to describe their marriage customs, Sidi asks, "Is the bag empty? Why did you stop?" What literary technique is being used, here?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Personification.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sidi fear will happen if she marries without following tradition?

2. What is the name of the village?

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

4. Who is the village schoolmaster?

5. Why does Sidi have Lakunle play the "lost Traveller" in their dance?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the setting in which the play opens.

8. What does Lakunle think of Baroka?

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

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

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