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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 and 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are the vendors in the initial scene?
(a) They have left the market to return to their homes for the night.
(b) They are opening up their businesses following the noon break.
(c) They are conducting their final transactions with customers for the day.
(d) They are opening businesses following morning religious ceremonies.

2. Okei grows up in a culture nearly destroyed during what decade?
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1940s.

3. As the boys reach the next village en route to meet some girls, they can hear them doing what?
(a) Bathing in a stream.
(b) Discussing rumors and religion.
(c) Playing cards.
(d) Bathing in a pond.

4. Why is it the girls Uche, Okei, and Nduka seek to meet with go to the village to sell their produce?
(a) The buyers are not so nice, but pay more.
(b) It is closer than other villages.
(c) They hope to encounter Uche and Nduke there.
(d) The buyers are nicer and pay more.

5. When it comes time to part for the evening in the second chapter, Okei orders Uche to announce that all the young men are to meet together when?
(a) The next afternoon.
(b) The next week.
(c) The next morning.
(d) The next night.

Short Answer Questions

1. The topic of boys leads the girls to mention the difference between what?

2. The girls Okei and his friends hope to meet have returned early from their day of selling what?

3. What does Okei receive punishment for in the initial chapters?

4. In what setting does the tale begin?

5. As Nduka and Uche take Okei to meet the girls nearby, they commiserate that their parents all give them the same speech about being useless because of what?

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