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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Esi get really angry at Ali?
(a) After he says he is marrying his secretary.
(b) After he says he cannot visit her there anymore.
(c) Near the end of their third year of marriage.
(d) Near the end of their second year of marriage.

2. What does Esi do when she hears Ogyaanowa cry?
(a) Takes Ogyaanowa to her grandmother's home.
(b) Shames Oko and Ali into behaving.
(c) Tells her to go outside.
(d) Comes out of the bedroom and takes Ogyaanowa and drives off.

3. What does Opokuya ask of Esi?
(a) To sell her Esi's old car.
(b) To take her to downtown.
(c) To come with her to Opokuya's mother's house.
(d) To babysit for her.

4. For what does Esi feel guilty?
(a) For sharing her doubts about Ali with Opokuya.
(b) For sharing her doubts about Ali with her mother.
(c) For not being more understanding of Ali.
(d) sharing her doubts about Ali with Ogyaanowa.

5. What does Esi tell Ali when he visits after not doing so for weeks?
(a) They do not have a marriage.
(b) That she misses him.
(c) That she wants to live with him and Fusena.
(d) That she is pregnant.

6. What does Esi realize about her job?
(a) It is a dead end.
(b) It has endless possibilities.
(c) She likes it.
(d) She hates it.

7. What does Esi wonder about concerning children?
(a) She wonders if Ali will allow her to have children.
(b) She wonders if Ali is going to make her have children.
(c) How they will have any if Ali is never there.
(d) She wonders if children would strengthen or weaken her marriage with Ali.

8. What is Esi eventually feeling?
(a) Lonely and missing Ali.
(b) Neglected.
(c) Gracious towards Fusena.
(d) Unfulfilled.

9. What does Esi say her mother does not like about Esi and Ali's possible marriage?
(a) Esi being a second wife.
(b) Esi living in a different town from Ali.
(c) Esi getting pregnant anymore since the first pregnancy almost kills her.
(d) Esi keeping her job.

10. What shocks Ali's female relatives?
(a) That Fusena is divorcing Ali.
(b) That their educated daughters are not any better off than they were.
(c) That Esi is not Muslim.
(d) That Esi will not live with Ali and Fusena.

11. What does Esi propose she and Ali do as far as her family?
(a) Go visit them.
(b) Pretend Esi is not involved with Ali.
(c) Let them know about the marriage after the fact.
(d) Ignore their misgivings.

12. What does Kweku say when he knocks on Opokuya's bedroom door?
(a) That Kubi is mad that Opokuya is not in the kitchen.
(b) That the potatoes are boiling over.
(c) That Esi and Ogyaanowa are there.
(d) That the beans have burned rather badly.

13. What happens when Opokuya's two eldest children are left in charge of cooking for the holiday?
(a) They constantly interrupt Opokuya with questions.
(b) They cook an incredible amount of delicious food.
(c) It does not go well.
(d) They refuse to do much.

14. What does Esi say about Fusena?
(a) She is kind.
(b) She is harsh and rigid.
(c) She is unhappy in her marriage and is glad Esi is alleviating some of Ali's sexual energy.
(d) She hasn't even met her.

15. What does Ali do traditionally on New Year's Eve?
(a) Spends it with his father.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Spends it with Fusena and their children.
(d) Spends it in London.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the worst time of the year for Esi?

2. What does Esi do after she drops Ali off at Hotel Twentieth Century?

3. What traditional rule has been already broken concerning Ali and Esi according to Opokuya?

4. When do Ali and Esi go to her family's village?

5. Against what does Ali advise Esi?

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