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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: "Noon".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the villagers feel about Lakunle?
(a) They think he has done great things for their village.
(b) They respect and fear him.
(c) They admire his education but think that he is corrupt.
(d) They think he is strange and full of silly, pretentious ideas.

2. When Lakunle calls Sidi, "My Ruth, my Rachel, Esther, Bathsheba," (20), whom is he comparing Sidi to?
(a) The heroines of famous Western novels.
(b) Famous Ethiopian actresses.
(c) His own sisters.
(d) Important women in the Bible.

3. Who is Sidi?
(a) The "jewel" of the village.
(b) The best friend of the "jewel" of the village.
(c) The favorite wife of the village leader.
(d) The senior wife of the village leader.

4. Whom does Sidi credit with having taught her to value herself and think critically about her choices?
(a) Lakunle and the stranger from Lagos.
(b) The stranger from Lagos and her father.
(c) Lakunle and her mother.
(d) Her mother and father.

5. When the play opens, who has Sidi promised to marry?
(a) Lakunle.
(b) The photographer.
(c) Baroka.
(d) The lost traveller.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What job does Baroka give to his favorite wife?

3. Who is Ogun?

4. What is happening onstage while Lakunle tells the story of Baroka's corruption?

5. What additional request does Sadiku make of Sidi, after Sidi turns down Baroka's proposal?

(see the answer key)

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