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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nnu Ego ask the officers if she can do before they take Nnaife away in the van?
(a) Take Nnaife's money.
(b) Tell Nnaife she loves him.
(c) Hug him before he leaves.
(d) Tie his nightcloth so nobody sees him naked.

2. What bad news does Ubani and Nwakusor break to Nnaife in Chapter 10?
(a) His youngest sister has died.
(b) His mother has died.
(c) His father has died.
(d) His oldest brother has died.

3. What does Adankwu do when Nnaife tells her Nnu Ego needs help at home?
(a) She sends him home with a 16-year-old wife.
(b) She gives him money to pay for a housemaid.
(c) She agrees to come with him to Lagos.
(d) She sends her daughters to Lagos to help.

4. What does Oshia tell his mother on a visit from school when she is pregnant for the 7th time?
(a) He does not wish to see his family again.
(b) He will be done school and can starting helping out financially.
(c) He has failed out of school.
(d) He plans to go to university.

5. What does Nnaife grab before running off to the butcher's house to get his daughter?
(a) His wife.
(b) All of his money.
(c) A shotgun.
(d) A cutlass.

6. What is Nnu Egos initial concern after Ubani and Nwakusor share their bad news with Nnaife?
(a) She does not know how they will pay for a trip to Ibuza.
(b) She does not know how Oshia will take the news.
(c) She does not know how they will pay for a funeral.
(d) She does not know how they will support the wives Nnaife will inherit.

7. What does Nnu Ego learn from Adaku when she returns to Lagos which upsets her?
(a) Nnaife visited three weeks before she arrived.
(b) Adaku spent all of their money.
(c) Adaku left and the house is in shambles.
(d) Nnaife wrote saying he was not coming back.

8. What are the contents of the package Nnu Ego picks up at the barracks in Chapter 15?
(a) Nnaife's remains.
(b) Nnaife's uniform.
(c) Letters and money from Nnaife.
(d) A letter informing Nnu Ego that Nnaife is missing.

9. Who is Okpo?
(a) Oshia's teacher.
(b) Nnu Ego and Nnaife's daughter.
(c) Nnu Ego's closest friend and neighbor.
(d) Nnaife's new young wife.

10. What does Adaku tell Nnu Ego she is going to do to make money after she moves out?
(a) Sell firewood.
(b) Become a prostitute.
(c) Become a servant.
(d) Sell cigarettes.

11. What does Nnaife try to tell the officers when they come for him at the Yoruba home?
(a) Kehinde stole his money.
(b) The family kidnapped his daughter.
(c) The family did not pay the bride price for his daughter.
(d) The butcher's son tried to kill him.

12. Whose son does Kehinde tell her father she wants to marry?
(a) Nwakusor's son.
(b) A soldier's son.
(c) Ubani's son.
(d) The butcher's son.

13. What does Oshia do in Chapter 11 to help after his family argues about money?
(a) He tears up their money to make more of it.
(b) He tries to sell some of his things so he can help.
(c) He asks the neighbors if he can borrow some money.
(d) He quits school so they do not have to pay for his education.

14. What news does Oshia receive while at the Technical Institute, which he is afraid to share with his family?
(a) Adim is failing school.
(b) He has been offered a scholarship to school in the U.S.
(c) His girlfriend is pregnant.
(d) He has been fired.

15. Who sobs as Nnaife is taken away in a police van after the incident at the Yoruba home?
(a) Okpo and Adim.
(b) Taiwo and Adim.
(c) Kehende and Aremu.
(d) Okpo and Nnu Ego.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are some signs of war that Oshia sees in his school?

2. What does Nnaife say to Oshia as they argue about the fact that Oshia does not help the family financially?

3. How long is Nnaife told he will be away from his family in Chapter 12?

4. Why does Nnu Ego appreciate having Okpa in her family?

5. What happens to Adaku that makes her severely depressed in Chapter 11?

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