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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a "beater" as Wole describes it in Chapter 9?
(a) A pair of overalls worn to protect against stinging insects.
(b) Anything that is seemingly magical, such as the radio.
(c) Someone who disturbs the brush to locate animals for hunters.
(d) Wild Christian's infamous stick she uses to punish children.

2. What is the phrase Wole uses to describe the odor in Essay's room?
(a) Imagination stifling.
(b) Leaden and noxious.
(c) Ordered mustiness.
(d) Baked-in grease.

3. What is the occupation of Broda Pupa?
(a) Town administrator.
(b) Barber.
(c) Oracle.
(d) Butcher.

4. What town is Essay from, originally?
(a) Cape Town.
(b) Ake.
(c) London.
(d) Isara.

5. How might Wild Christian best be characterized?
(a) Stoop-shouldered and droopy-eyed.
(b) Quiet, and thoughtful.
(c) Quick-witted and gregarious.
(d) Boisterous and ill-tempered.

Short Answer Questions

1. What accident does Wole cause when looking for gifts in the rafters of his home in Chapter 5?

2. In Chapter 8, who frees Paa Adatan after he is captured?

3. Odemo is the chief of which town?

4. What is Wole's problem at the beginning of Chapter 4?

5. In Chapter 3, how does Wole manage to get back home to Ake?

(see the answer key)

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