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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where is Mrs. Noble from?
2. Where did Adah teach Sunday school in Lagos?
3. What is the name of Adah's doctor in Chapter 8?
4. Who own the houses on either sides of the Nobles?
5. Where does Adah wake at the beginning of Chapter 9?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens when Adah goes to work in Chapter 8?
2. What do the other women in the hospital ward have that Ada does not in Chapter 9?
3. In Chapter 9, where does Adah wake, and what is it like?
4. In Chapter 10, how does Adah have Christmas presents for her chldren, and what does each child get?
5. What happened to the women who lived in Mr. Noble's house in a rent-controlled apartment?
6. Why does Adah decide not to get the Pill for birth control?
7. What work does Francis do and how does he complain in Chapter 10?
8. Why does Adah not say goodbye to the other women when she leaves the hospital?
9. When and where does Adah take a bath and why?
10. In Chapter 6, how does Adah disguise her voice when she calls to check on a room for rent on Hawley Street?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the novel, some characters are more thoroughly described than others. Who are some characters that are merely named in passing or have a minor role in the novel? What is the importance of these flat characters to the storyline? In what way do these characters make the main characters more colorful or interesting? When there is conflict, what type of role do these flat characters play?
Essay Topic 2
After Dada is born, Adah goes to a clinic for birth control. Why does Adah decide she needs birth control? Why does she have to forge Francis’s signature to get birth control? What does Francis say when he learns she has gotten birth control? What does her pursuit of birth control reveal about sexism?
Essay Topic 3
Abuse can be physical, emotional, or both. How does Francis abuse Adah? Is the abuse he heaps on her physical, emotional, or both?
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