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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. With what does Opokuya say society has no patience?
(a) Men who cheat.
(b) Single women.
(c) Women who want their own life even if they are married.
(d) Divorced men.
2. What does Ali see as a gift from Allah?
(a) His career.
(b) The beautiful weather.
(c) His wife and children.
(d) Meeting Esi.
3. What visit did Opokuya make that is successful?
(a) To Connie.
(b) To the patient expecting to deliver that evening.
(c) To her mother's.
(d) None.
4. Why does Esi say her marriage fails?
(a) Oko wants a wife who wants more children.
(b) Esi has never loved Oko.
(c) Oko resented her not being with him constantly.
(d) Oko was having an affair.
5. Why does Opokuya say Esi cannot have it all?
(a) Only women who are very wealthy can have it all.
(b) No one can have it all.
(c) Society will not allow it.
(d) Only men who are rich can have it all.
6. What does Esi's grandmother say about feeling grateful to a man?
(a) It degrades the woman.
(b) It's enough of a reason to marry him.
(c) It creates a trap which is hard to escape.
(d) It creates imbalance in a marriage.
7. What does Fusena start feeling upset in her marriage?
(a) Her husband is getting more education than she.
(b) She wants to stay home with the kids but has to work.
(c) Her husband has married two more wifes.
(d) She has not managed to get pregnant.
8. What happens when Musa Musa is twelve?
(a) He breaks his back.
(b) He loses a goat and disappears.
(c) He goes to boarding school.
(d) He accidentally shoots his brother.
9. Who is Kubi?
(a) The doctor who supervises Opokuya.
(b) Opokuya's husband.
(c) A baby Opokuya has just delivered.
(d) Opokuya's oldest son.
10. What happens on the drive when Opokuya loses use of the car?
(a) Kubi jokes trying to get Opokuya in a better mood.
(b) Silence.
(c) Nothing different from usual.
(d) Opokuya tries to convince Kubi the whole way to let her have the car.
11. How long does Ali live away from his father?
(a) He's always lived with his father.
(b) His first eight years.
(c) His first year.
(d) His entire life.
12. For what does the narrator say Ali Kondey is an effective advertisement?
(a) Bisberi.
(b) Musa Hideaways.
(c) Linga Hideaways.
(d) New Town.
13. What does Oko think Esi has not lost?
(a) Her love for Oko.
(b) Her schoolgirl looks or ways.
(c) Her combative spirit.
(d) Her desire for perfection.
14. What does Musa's father always do at any new place with Musa Musa?
(a) Teaches him how to sell to the new villagers.
(b) Shows him the land Musa was going to own.
(c) Places him in a Koranic school.
(d) Finds him a philosophy tutor.
15. Why does Opokuya want the car today?
(a) To go to a meeting in a nearby town.
(b) To shop for school clothes for the children.
(c) To visit Kubi's sister.
(d) To visit her grandmother.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does the man who offers to help Esi appear?
2. What does Ali do when he hears of Esi's divorce?
3. How does Esi find Oko's attentions?
4. What does Esi confide to Opokuya?
5. How many children does Opokuya have?
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