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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What destroys Obi's hope for support from his mother for marrying Clara?
(a) Hannah becomes boisterous and sends him away.
(b) Hannah threatens to kill herself if he marries Clara.
(c) The argument between Obi and Hannah makes Hannah's condition worsen.
(d) Because Hannah curses Clara without hearing a word from Obi.

2. What does Obi do in an effort to find solace for his distress about Clara's situation?
(a) The author writes that Obi does not eat; he pulls down Houseman's volume but then reads no poems.
(b) He cannot eat, sleep or read poems that normally console him.
(c) He is so agitated that he almost crashes his car.
(d) He storms into the hospital at midnight demanding to see Clara.

3. What is Nigeria's real problem according to Obi in his remarks to Christopher?
(a) A shortage of bright young black men to run things.
(b) Poor leadership.
(c) Letting old men rise to the top by bribery and then expecting to be paid off for everything.
(d) Too many uneducated people.

4. What reason does Clara give for making her suggestion about their engagement?
(a) That Obi will hate her for breaking off the engagement.
(b) That Obi will not return from his visit home.
(c) That Obi's parents will disinherit him.
(d) That she will ruin Obi's life by coming between him and his family.

5. Despite coming to like Christopher, what does Clara fear about him?
(a) That Obi will waste his money entertaining Christopher.
(b) That his careless spending will rub off on Obi.
(c) That Chrisopher will dissuade Obi from marrying her.
(d) That his womanizing will rub off on Obi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What helps to cement a friendship between MacMillan and Obi?

2. For what kind of leave does Obi apply when he has to go home to deal with the news he receives?

3. What foreshadows trouble for Obi when evening prayers are said on the first day of his visit home?

4. How does Christopher deal with Obi's feelings about his mother's threat of suicide?

5. What brings a bad end to the occasion at the end of the evening after the two couples have enjoyed themselves?

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