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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. In “A Private Experience,” what does Chika see when they ventures out from the store?
(a) Soldiers beating people.
(b) Merchants fixing their stalls.
(c) Burned bodies.
(d) Angry mobs.

2. In “Jumping Monkey Hill,” how does Edward outrage Ujunwa?
(a) He ignore her.
(b) He propositions her.
(c) He says he would like her to lie down for him.
(d) He speaks to her like a housegirl.

3. In “A Private Experience,” where is Chika in school?
(a) Nsukka.
(b) Princeton.
(c) London.
(d) University of Lagos.

4. In “Jumping Monkey Hill,” why did Edward think the Zimbabwean’s story was passé?
(a) The language was archaic.
(b) The Africa he knew did not have magic in it.
(c) More important things were happening in Africa.
(d) Magic is last century’s Africa.

5. In “On Monday of Last Week,” who is Maren?
(a) Kamara’s friend.
(b) Josh’s French tutor.
(c) Tracy’s regular model.
(d) Neil’s girlfriend.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Jumping Monkey Hill,” what is it in the Senegalese’ story that Edward says is not representative of Africa?

2. In “Imitation,” what does Nkem do in reaction to the news that her husband has moved a woman into her house?

3. In “Ghosts,” when did Professor Nwoye and his wife return to their home, after fleeing?

4. In “Jumping Monkey Hill,” what do the couple in the Zimbabwean’s story need to get, before they can get pregnant?

5. In “Ghosts,” what does Professor Nwoye’s daughter Nkiru’s name mean?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to turn Kamara around at the end of "On Monday of Last Week"?

2. In “Imitation,” what is the importance of the Benin masks in Nkem’s house?

3. In “Ghosts,” whose ghost does Professor Nwoye also see?

4. In “Imitation,” how does the narrator characterize Obiora’s courtship of Nkem?

5. In “Imitation,” what does Obiora feel about the children preserving Nigerian customs in America?

6. What is the Ugandan’s role in "Jumping Monkey Hill"?

7. In “Jumping Monkey Hill,” how does Edward’s wife Isabel get on Ujunwa’s wrong side?

8. In “A Private Experience,” how does the story characterize the difference between Chika and the Hausa woman?

9. In “A Private Experience,” what is the basis of the intimacy between Chika and the Hausa woman?

10. In “Cell One,” what has the narrator’s family lost when their house was broken into and robbed?

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