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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) A magazine.
(b) Books.
(c) Rice.
(d) Water.

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

3. Who is the village schoolmaster?
(a) Sadiku.
(b) Baroka.
(c) Soyinka.
(d) Lakunle.

4. Why does Lakunle object to Sidi carrying things on her head?
(a) He says it is the way men, not women, carry things.
(b) He says it is bad for her spine.
(c) He says it makes her look like a beast of burden.
(d) He says it is an example of how women are discriminated against.

5. When Lakunle lists a large number of adjectives to describe their marriage customs, Sidi asks, "Is the bag empty? Why did you stop?" What literary technique is being used, here?
(a) Personification.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Euphemism.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Sidi has already changed the way she dresses for Lakunle. What does she say is the consequence of this change?

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

5. Why does Sidi have Lakunle play the "lost Traveller" in their dance?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the setting in which the play opens.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Lakunle think of Baroka?

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

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

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

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