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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 "Tomorrow is Too Far," where was Nonso buried?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Nigeria.
(d) Philadelphia.
2. In “The Headstrong Historian,” what made Nwamgba look forward to death?
(a) The horrible violence everywhere.
(b) The world did not make sense.
(c) The physical pain she was always in.
(d) The injustices that were permitted by the white men.
3. In "Tomorrow is Too Far," who called out to Nonso that there was a snake in the tree below him?
(a) Grandmama.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Dozie.
(d) The narrator’s mother.
4. In “The American Embassy,” what is the woman’s frame of mind?
(a) Attentive.
(b) Blank.
(c) Voluble.
(d) Chatty.
5. In “The Headstrong Historian,” why Nwamgba’s family horrified by the prospect or marriage to Obierika?
(a) His family’s history of infertility.
(b) His family’s outsider status.
(c) His family’s history of scandals.
(d) His family’s low status.
Short Answer Questions
1. In "Tomorrow is Too Far," what had the narrator and Dozie agreed to, before Nonso got hurt?
2. In “The American Embassy,” what does the woman remember the government agents smelled like, when they came to her house?
3. In “The Thing Around Your Neck,” what do all Americans have, according to Akunna’s relatives in Nigeria?
4. In “The Shivering,” what is Chinedu’s religion?
5. In “The American Embassy,” what does the woman keep seeing in her mind’s eye?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the thing around the character’s neck in the story "The Thing Around Your Neck"?
2. In "Tomorrow is Too Far," what had the narrator told her mother to explain how Nonso had died?
3. In "Tomorrow is Too Far," what caused Nonso to receive preferential treatment among the three children in the story?
4. In “The Arrangers of Marriage,” how does the narrator characterize the apartment she arrives in with her husband?
5. In “The American Embassy,” why has the woman come to wait in line at the American Embassy?
6. In “The Headstrong Historian,” how did Afamefuna validate Nwamgba’s values in the end of her life?
7. How does the narrator characterize the rules in America, in "The Thing Around Your Neck"?
8. In “The American Embassy,” what is the woman’s relationship with the man behind her in line?
9. In “The Arrangers of Marriage,” how does the woman’s name change when she arrives in America?
10. In “The Headstrong Historian,” what were Nwamgba’s parents’ objections to Nwamgba’s choice of Obierika as husband, and how did she overcome them?
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