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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Obi Agilaga feel would ease problems on his farm?

2. Who used to say that it is up to others to provide the young men something to do?

3. Nduka and Uche discuss what when they meet?

4. In Chapter 4, Uche rises when the following day?

5. What do Obi Agilaga and Obi Uwechue do together for a while?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Obi Agiliga and Obi Uwechue regard their plan's progress the morning following Kwutelu's injury?

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

3. What is Nne Ojo's response to how the conflict has left Okei?

4. What happens down by the stream and when Okei dresses for the contest?

5. What mutual problem does Obi Uwechue want to discuss with Obi Agiliga in the sweltering heat?

6. In what ways is Okei maturing by the end of Chapter 12?

7. What does Obi Agiliga declare at the conclusion?

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

9. What does Obi Uwechue tell Obi Agiliga about Okei during their afternoon meeting at the shed?

10. What initially takes place when Obi Uju arrives home on the day Kwutelu taunts Okei?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

On the evening her ear is severed, what are the details of the conversation lasting several hours that Kwutelu has with the brothers of her fiancé?

Essay Topic 2

When does Dr. Emecheta initially begin conveying her view that nothing good can come from any confrontation, regardless of how innocently it may initiate? What are the circumstances causing this lesson to begin?

Essay Topic 3

When his adoptive uncle tells his nephew in Chapter 1 that youths his age have been stealing from the elders, why are Okei and his friends, Uche and Nduka upset? What are various additional points that Obi Agiliga and other parents of schooled youths repeatedly stressing that irritate their teenagers?

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