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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: "Night".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second setting in the "Noon" section of the play?
(a) Baroka's bedroom.
(b) Baroka's dining room.
(c) The schoolhouse.
(d) Sidi's home.

2. Who is Sadiku?
(a) One of Baroka's concubines.
(b) Baroka's senior wife.
(c) Sidi's mother.
(d) Baroka's favorite wife.

3. What important piece of information does Sadiku give Sidi as a reason to marry Baroka?
(a) Baroka will take her as a concubine if she does not agree to marry him.
(b) Baroka is willing to pay double the expected bride-price.
(c) Baroka has promised to divorce all of his other wives.
(d) Baroka has promised that Sidi will be his last wife.

4. What does Sidi say a man has to do in order to marry her?
(a) Speak with her father.
(b) Become a leader.
(c) Kill a lion.
(d) Pay her bride-price.

5. In the opening of "Night," where is Sidi?
(a) In Baroka's bedroom.
(b) Shopping in the market.
(c) On a village road.
(d) Inside the schoolhouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Sidi returns to the clearing, what does Sadiku learn?

2. What does Lakunle think of the villagers?

3. Whom does Baroka call "the queen of them all" (31)?

4. Where does the "lost Traveller" come from?

5. What is Sadiku's response to Sidi's refusal of Baroka's proposal?

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