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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. What do local Ibuza women teach Nnu Ego to do in their weekly meetings?
(a) They teach her how to keep her husband happy.
(b) They teach her how to sew.
(c) They teach her how to cook.
(d) They teach her how to sell cigarettes.

2. Why does Nwakusor have a new appreciation for life at the start of Chapter 5?
(a) He got a new job making good money.
(b) His wife gave birth to a son.
(c) He just recovered from a severe illness.
(d) He was nearly hit by a bus.

3. What does Nwakusor do for work?
(a) He is a servant.
(b) He is a cook.
(c) He is a dockworker.
(d) He is a farmer.

4. What is Nnu Ego planning to do in Chapter 1 to relieve her pain and anger?
(a) Drown herself.
(b) Move to another village.
(c) Steal food.
(d) Shoot herself.

5. Who tells Nnaife about his dead son?
(a) Agbadi.
(b) Ubani.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Nnu Ego.

Short Answer Questions

1. What agreement do Ona and Agbadi make regarding the child she is carrying?

2. What does Nnu Ego believe about her chi?

3. What is Nnu Ego's first son's name?

4. How does Ona react where she learns Agbadi has been badly wounded while hunting?

5. What animal harms Agbadi while he is hunting?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nnu Ego feel after she gives birth to her first son? What does she discover happened to her son at the end of Chapter 2?

2. What arrangement does Ona work out with Agbadi when she is pregnant? What happens after she gives birth? Who is her child and how does Agbadi feel?

3. What does Nnu Ego yell out to Nwakusor and the woman who slapped her when she was trying to commit suicide by the bridge?

4. How does Amatokwu and his family treat Nnu Ego after she seems unable to conceive?

5. After Oshiago is born, why does Nnu Ego feel she should no longer try to sell cigarettes?

6. What does Nnu Ego begin doing when she cares for Amatokwu's son? What happens when Amatokwu finds her doing this?

7. Who is Ato? Why does she visit Nnu Ego? Who has sent her?

8. Who is Nnu Edo's chi and what does Nnu Edo believe her chi is doing to her?

9. Who does Nnu Ego marry after Amatokwu? Where does he live? How does she get there?

10. How does Nnaife find work on the Fernando Po? Why do Nnu Ego and Oshia have to leave after he goes?

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