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

2. What is the formal title of the village leader?
(a) Alakowe.
(b) Bale.
(c) Baba.
(d) Ilujinle.

3. What does Lakunle think of the villagers?
(a) He thinks they are innocent and childlike.
(b) He thinks they are hard-working and clever.
(c) He thinks they are ignorant savages.
(d) He thinks they are lazy and cruel.

4. When Lakunle talks about machines that will someday help women with their work, what is Sidi's reply?
(a) She says that he will turn their whole world upside down.
(b) She says that she will move to Lagos, where she can use these machines.
(c) She says that she will marry him if he can get her these machines.
(d) She says that he is lying and that these things do not exist.

5. What does Sidi suggest that Lakunle should do if he does not like the village?
(a) Work to change it.
(b) Move.
(c) Learn to see it in a new way.
(d) Suffer in silence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lakunle say is true about women's intelligence?

2. What is the name of the village?

3. What is Sidi carrying in the opening of the play?

4. What evidence does Sidi give that women are not the "weaker sex" (4)?

5. Who plays the role of Baroka in the "dance of the lost Traveller"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Lakunle think of Baroka?

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

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

10. Describe the setting in which the play opens.

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