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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In "Noon," what example of Baroka's corruption does Lakunle give?
(a) He tells about Baroka seducing Lakunle's younger sister.
(b) He tells about Baroka bribing a judge.
(c) He tells about Baroka getting the railroad rerouted.
(d) He tells about Baroka embezzling money meant for the school.

3. What news does Sadiku bring to Sidi in the opening of "Noon"?
(a) The photographer wants more pictures of her.
(b) A man in Lagos wishes to marry her.
(c) Baroka wishes to marry her.
(d) She has been offered a job in Lagos.

4. Why is Baroka jealous of Sidi?
(a) Lakunle believes that Sidi is smarter than Baroka.
(b) The villagers suggest that Sidi would make a better leader.
(c) Sidi appears more times in the magazine.
(d) Important people from Lagos want to meet Sidi.

5. When Sidi returns to the clearing, what does Sadiku learn?
(a) Baroka has rejected Sidi.
(b) Baroka is demanding that she return to the palace immediately.
(c) Baroka used her to trick Sidi.
(d) Baroka wants to divorce her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the villagers feel about Lakunle?

2. What is the second setting in the "Noon" section of the play?

3. What question does Baroka pretend that he has not asked?

4. When Baroka asks if the hypothetical suitor is "repulsive," (44), what is Sidi's answer?

5. How did Sidi meet the "lost Traveller"?

(see the answer key)

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