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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Thing Around Your Neck".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In “Imitation,” what preparation has Nkem neglected to make, when Obiora comes home?
(a) Putting on makeup.
(b) Polishing the silver.
(c) Washing the car.
(d) Waxing her pubic hair.

2. In “Ghosts,” why does Professor Nwoye refrain from telling his daughter about his wife’s visits?
(a) She will marry him into a family that will look after him.
(b) She will medicate him.
(c) She will put him in a home.
(d) She will bring him to America.

3. In “Jumping Monkey Hill,” what is it in the Senegalese’ story that Edward says is not representative of Africa?
(a) A coming out story.
(b) A political quandary.
(c) A domestic dispute.
(d) A family drama.

4. In “Imitation,” what other task does the narrator say the custodians of the masks also performed?
(a) Bringing human sacrifices to the king.
(b) Teaching the king’s children.
(c) Preserving the tribe’s records.
(d) Preserving the dead bodies of the kings.

5. In “Jumping Monkey Hill,” what does Ujunwa say the guests at Jumping Monkey Hill have not seen around them?
(a) Monkeys.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Black people.
(d) Red-capped lizards.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “A Private Experience,” what has the woman lost who shows Chika where to hide from the riots?

2. In “Ghosts,” why does Ikenna say there was no reason for him to return to Nigeria?

3. In “A Private Experience,” what does Chika ask the woman to give her?

4. In “The Thing Around Your Neck,” why does Akunna not write to her family back in Nigeria?

5. In “Jumping Monkey Hill,” what do the couple in the Zimbabwean’s story need to get, before they can get pregnant?

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