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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 is Sidi carrying in the opening of the play?
(a) Books.
(b) Rice.
(c) Water.
(d) A magazine.

2. What evidence does Sidi give that women are not the "weaker sex" (4)?
(a) They are able to rule their households without social power.
(b) They are the ones who give birth.
(c) They are good in a crisis.
(d) They do a lot of hard physical labor.

3. Who is the author of The Lion and the Jewel?
(a) Lakunle.
(b) Soyinka.
(c) Baroka.
(d) Sadiku.

4. What are the village school children learning when the play opens?
(a) English greetings.
(b) A Nigerian folktale.
(c) The English alphabet.
(d) The times tables.

5. What does Lakunle say is true about women's intelligence?
(a) They are better at strategy than men are.
(b) They are good at talking, but not good at math.
(c) They are men's intellectual equals.
(d) They have smaller and less capable brains.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of shoes is Lakune wearing with his suit?

2. Who is Ogun?

3. What does Sidi say a man has to do in order to marry her?

4. What does Lakunle say that he wants a wife to be?

5. When the play opens, who has Sidi promised to marry?

Short Essay Questions

1. What response does Baroka have to the magazine featuring pictures of the village?

2. What are the qualities that Lakunle thinks of as "civilized"?

3. How did the "lost Traveller" come to be in the village?

4. Describe the setting in which the play opens.

5. What is the contradiction in Lakunle's view of women?

6. How does Sidi feel about Lakunle's modern ideas?

7. What does Lakunle think of Baroka?

8. When the play opens, what is the understanding between Sidi and Lakunle regarding marriage?

9. What happens with Lakunle when Baroka interrupts the dance?

10. What is the "dance of the lost Traveller," and who plays the Traveller?

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