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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 happening onstage while Lakunle tells the story of Baroka's corruption?
(a) The man from Lagos has reappeared.
(b) Actors recreate a pantomimed version of his story.
(c) Schoolboys hang out the window of the school, mocking Lakunle.
(d) Baroka is hiding behind a market stall, listening.

2. Who is Sadiku?
(a) Baroka's senior wife.
(b) Baroka's favorite wife.
(c) One of Baroka's concubines.
(d) Sidi's mother.

3. Whom does Sidi credit with having taught her to value herself and think critically about her choices?
(a) The stranger from Lagos and her father.
(b) Lakunle and her mother.
(c) Lakunle and the stranger from Lagos.
(d) Her mother and father.

4. While Lakunle is telling his story about Baroka's corruption, what does Sidi do?
(a) Laughs and adds details to the story.
(b) Sneaks away.
(c) Argues with him about the truth of his story.
(d) Stands very still, looking upset and shocked.

5. When Lakunle hears Baroka's plans for Sidi, what does he say about Baroka?
(a) He is corrupt.
(b) He is greedy.
(c) He is generous.
(d) He is jealous.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the opening of "Noon," to what does Sidi compare Lakunle?

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

3. Whom does Baroka call "the queen of them all" (31)?

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

5. When Sidi says that Sadiku has a "honey tongue," (20), what literary technique is being used?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how Baroka diverted the railroad, and why.

2. Describe Baroka's bedroom.

3. When the scene in "Noon" shifts to Baroka's bedroom, what is his favorite wife doing, and how does she use this task to communicate her feelings?

4. When Sidi says, "The stranger took my beauty/and placed it in my hands" (20), what claim is she making for the power of the photographs?

5. What is Sidi's reasoning for turning down the proposal that Baroka sends to her through Sadiku?

6. What argument does Sadiku present to Sidi for marrying Baroka?

7. When Lakunle tells the story of Baroka's corruption, what conflicting emotions does he display?

8. When Sadiku conveys Sidi's refusal to Baroka, what is his first reaction, and what changes his feelings?

9. What evidence is there in "Noon" that there might be genuine affection between Baroka and Sadiku?

10. When, in the beginning of "Noon," Lakunle compares Sidi to women in the Bible, what message is he trying to send, and what is Sidi's response?

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