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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Asughara begins supplementing Ada's own diet restriction with her own methods, what weight does Ada get down to?
(a) 109 pounds.
(b) 118 pounds.
(c) 98 pounds.
(d) 122 pounds.

2. How many bedrooms are in the home Saachi shares with another person upon moving to the United States?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

3. Who had prayed incessantly for a girl child before Ada's birth?
(a) Saul.
(b) Saachi.
(c) Asughara.
(d) The We.

4. A college in what state offers Ada a full scholarship that she turns down?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Alabama.

5. How old is Anuli when she is hit by a truck on the street?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 9.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Anuli when she is hit by a truck as Ada looks on helplessly?

2. The We state that the Nigerian method of parenting revolves around what emotion?

3. To whom does Ada first place a call when she finally frees herself from Soren's dorm room?

4. The We say that the gates separating the spiritual world from the material world "stink of" (33) what?

5. Who is the mother of The We?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Ada's human father.

2. Who is Ala?

3. What physical change does Asughara lead Ada to make in her appearance and why?

4. Describe Ada's human mother.

5. Contrast the narration of Chapter 5 with the narration of Chapter 6.

6. Who is Asughara?

7. In what way does Asughara's arrival within Ada's psyche and body add to Ada's problems with self-harm?

8. In what way is the dream motif portrayed within Freshwater?

9. Choose and describe a particularly poignant moment in the text and analyze its effect on the reader.

10. What happens to Ada to cause Asughara's emergence?

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