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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position does the Alake have?
(a) The Alake is principal of the grammar school.
(b) The Alake is the mayor of Ake.
(c) The Alake is the local governor.
(d) The Alake is the president of Nigeria.

2. What is one of the concerns Daodu voices about the Government College?
(a) He doubts an organization that uses white people to teach black people.
(b) He doubts an organization that accepts only men.
(c) He doubts they teach anything useful beyond what grammar school teaches.
(d) He has heard the discipline at the college is especially harsh.

3. What is the immediate inspiration for a march upon the Alake in Chapter 14?
(a) The closing of the Government College.
(b) A "yam tax."
(c) The rape of a women's group member.
(d) A mother's tearful story of excessive taxation.

4. What happens to the naked woman at the beginning of Chapter 14?
(a) She is beaten and paraded through the streets to humiliate her.
(b) She is applauded for her boldness and given an award.
(c) She doesn't say a word, and she is taken to the police station.
(d) She is dragged to the police station after a fierce fight.

5. What does Wole refuse to do in Odemo's palace that causes much commotion?
(a) Wole refuses to remove his shoes.
(b) Wole refuses to prostrate himself before a chief.
(c) Wole refuses to shake the hand of the mayor.
(d) Wole refuses to utter the Lord's Prayer.

6. What possibility drives Wole into a depression in Chapter 11?
(a) The possibility that Hitler may win World War II.
(b) The possibility he will never be able to attend college.
(c) The possibility his baby sister may die.
(d) The possibility that Essay may die.

7. Why does Sorowanke leave her home in Chapter 10?
(a) Children pelt her with sticks and stones.
(b) She wins the local lottery and buys a house.
(c) She claims to hear a voice from God ordering her to travel.
(d) She is beaten by her boyfriend.

8. At the end of Chapter 8, who runs away from Ake?
(a) Wild Christian.
(b) Osiki.
(c) Wole.
(d) Dipo.

9. Why does Paa Adatan feel he is the victim of racism?
(a) He believes he is not given a gun because white men do not trust black men.
(b) He wishes to kill Hitler, but feels the white man is preventing him from doing so.
(c) The "no pockets" rule he is subject to is racist.
(d) He is paid substantially less than an equivalent white man.

10. How do the women mock the Alake at the beginning of Chapter 15?
(a) They speak with his nasally accent.
(b) They sing songs mocking him.
(c) They wear imitations of his robe.
(d) They write mock newspaper articles.

11. What rite of manhood does Wole endure at the end of Chapter 9?
(a) Scarification.
(b) A hunt for a wild boar.
(c) Wole is forced to fight several men in the village.
(d) Wole is forced to sleep in a cave for four days.

12. In Chapter 12, why does Wee-Wee punish a boy with several dozen lashings?
(a) The boy got a girl pregnant.
(b) The boy stole Wole's school supplies.
(c) The boy caused unnecessary alarm by claiming there was a fire.
(d) The boy hit a teacher.

13. According to Chapter 10, how might Wole characterize his life as a child?
(a) Depressing.
(b) Complicated and frenetic.
(c) Tainted by Western influence.
(d) Simple and good.

14. Odemo is the chief of which town?
(a) Obafemi.
(b) Lagos.
(c) Ake.
(d) Isara.

15. What is the primary demand of the women's group when they organize a protest march?
(a) An end to taxation.
(b) An end to police brutality.
(c) Better healthcare.
(d) A better sewer system.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "beater" as Wole describes it in Chapter 9?

2. What is Wole's opinion of snake meat?

3. What do the women do to symbolically strip the local chiefs of their power?

4. What best describes Kemberi's oratorical style?

5. What is ogiri?

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