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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 Obi Uwechue tell Obi Agilaga about Okei and his friends doing?
(a) Stealing from young villagers.
(b) Getting intoxicated the night before.
(c) Meeting girls the day before.
(d) Watching girls bathing the night before.

2. In Chapter 4, Uche rises when the following day?
(a) Early afternoon.
(b) Around 8 a.m.
(c) Very early in the morning.
(d) Around noon.

3. What do Obi Agilaga and Obi Uwechue do together for a while?
(a) Chant in unison.
(b) Pray aloud.
(c) Pray silently.
(d) Ponder the matter.

4. What does Obi Agilaga tell Obi Uwechue that Okei will not do?
(a) Take advice of an older man.
(b) Pray with an elder.
(c) Lower himself to farm work.
(d) Drink with someone older.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Obi Agilaga and Obi Uwechue sit and discuss young men who refuse to work but find time to do what?

2. The droughts bring what?

3. Where does Obi Uwechue hail from?

4. Obi Agilaga encourages Obi Uwechue to direct the girls of his village to do what?

5. The educated boys agree with Okei's philosophy, but while the uneducated youths nod in agreement they actually do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has Okei come to live with Obi Agiliga and Nne Ojo?

2. What does Uche relate to Okei the morning following Kwutelu's ear being severed?

3. What do Okei and his friends hear as they wait in the bushes for Josephine and her girlfriends to finish bathing?

4. How does the discussion concerning farming go at Okei's meeting?

5. What takes place at the youths' next meeting following the girls' unsuccessful day selling plantains?

6. How does the confrontation between Okei and Nne Ojo escalate in the first chapter?

7. Before Onuoha can leave the shed where the workers rest, why do he and Obi Agiliga experience a rush of fear?

8. How do Obi Agiliga and Obi Uwechue consider Kwutelu's injury?

9. After Kwutelu tells Obi Uju about her argument with Okei, why is she away for several hours when he retires?

10. What happens as the bathing girls' topic turns to differences between farm and educated youths?

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