Literature In English Practice Tests (Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta)

Adah breaks in tears in the hospital ward because _______

A. the pains of delivery of her baby
B. her baby was too big
C. she was not cared for by her husband in the hospital
D. she is a first class citizen

Adah stayed with her mother's _______ after the demise of her father.

A. niece      B. nephew      C. elder brother      D. elder sister

Adah blames her marriage challenges on _______

A. early marriage      B. her father      C. her mother      D. her children

One of the theme of the novel, Second Class Citizen is _______

A. The abuse of marriage
B. The joy of motherhood
C. The pride of travelling to London
D. none of the above

Adah was denied education because _____

A. she was born in the village
B. her parents are poor
C. she is a girl
D. there are no schools in her village

"Then it happened. The child who started the giggle covered her mouth with one hand and pointed at Adah with the other".

Another word for giggle as used in the passage is _____

A. shout     B. cry     C. sing     D. laugh

The police asked Adah's mother to ________, as a punishment for not allowing Ada to go to school.

A. kneel dowm     B. sweep the police station     C. drink a bowel of garri     D. write a statement

Adah referred Lagos to a ________.

A. center of excellence     B. God-forsaken place     C. center of commerce     D. commercial city

Who is the children officer?

A. Miss Stirling      B. Mrs. Konrad      C. Francis      D. Babalola

Adah's birth was welcomed with cold heart because ______

A. she was born in the midnight
B. the mid-wives are on strike
C. her parents were expecting a male child
D. her mother was sick during her birth

The Yoruba name for roasted plantain is _____

A. isu      B. ewa      C. iresi      D. boli

The central theme in Second Class citizen is that women should ________

A. be involved in national and international politics
B. beware of men and their sweet words .
C. seek spiritual guidance before going into marriage
D. free themselves from the negative forces of patriarchy.

For a moment she stopped what she was doing, straining her ears to make
out what the excitement was about, but she could hear nothing coherent.

The word coherent as used in the passage means _____

A. logical     B. good     C. sweet     D. news

The central figure in the novel, second class citizen, is _____

A. Ibuza     B. Adah     C. Francis     D. Vicky

Adah was referred to as _______ by the nurses in the hospital ward.

A. Caesar
B. cord presentation
C. a living specimen
D. mother of Mohammed Ali

For her act of child neglect, Adah's mother was forced by the police to _______

A. taste raw and black pepper
B. sleep in solitary cell
C. drink a bowl of garri
D. pay a fine of ten shillings.

According to Adah's Nigerian neighbours, she was having her cake and eating it. This means ______

A. Adah was living a life of first class citizen in United Kingdom
B. Adah love cakes
C. Adah refused to offer cakes to her neighbours
D. Francis ate Adah's cake

Adah attracted the envy of her neighbours in London because ________

A. she is a Nigerian
B. She is from Ibusa
C. she is married
D. she lives with her children in same apartment.

Adah nickname her 4th child as _______

A. Adabeke      B. sunshine      C. Adaada      D. Ada Owerri

Mr. Noble's controlled tenants died as a result of ______

A. high blood pressure
B. psychological pressures
C. Mr. Noble's dead mother
D. cold weather

Adah regretted her coming to United Kingdom because _______

A. the accommodation reserved for her was poor
B. the journey was too long
C. the cold in Liverpool is not friendly
D. her passport was seized

The thought of leaving school at the end of the year worried Adah so much that she lost ______

A. breadth     B. weight     C. height     D. friends

Adah's mother was arrested by the police for ______

A. child murder     B. child neglect     C. child molestation     D. public disturbance

In Adah's view, the white society in the novel is one in which ______

A. there is communal feeling
B. neighbourliness is lacking
C. neighbours live happily
D. members are unfriendly

The novel, Second Class Citizen is structured in ______ plots

A. 10     B. 11     C. 12     D. 13

Adah stayed in the hospital maternity ward for ______ days

A. 3      B. 6      C. 9      D. 14

In United Kingdom, only ______ lived with their children

A. middle class citizen
B. first class citizen
C. second class citizen
D. slaves

“You were very happy to see me go, were you not? Was that why you did not wish to appear in my send-off photograph? You did not care for me.”

Who said this?

A. Francis     B. Adah     C. Vincent     D. Titi

The night before Francis left Nigeria for United Kingdom, special prayers were made to _____

A. God     B. Adah's family     C. river Oboshi     D. Ibusa people

Adah desires to have a family planning because of ______

A. her status in London      B. Francis      C. her job      D. her study

So you can’t discriminate against your own people, because we are all second-class.”

Who made this statement?

A. Francis      B. Adah      C. Vincent      D. Titi

At Ashdown Street, neighbours would start singing as soon as they saw Adah coming. Most of the songs were about the fact that _____

A. Adah is a pretty woman
B. Adah is a lazy woman
C. Adah and her husband would soon have to make their home in the street
D. Adah is an Ibo woman with no cooking skills

Adah lied that her pregnancy will be due in _________

A. January     B. February      C. March      D. April

Mr Cole, the neighbour living next door to Adah's parents, is from ______

A. Ghana     B. Ibusa     C. Lagos     D. Sierra Leone

Adah had 3 children at the age of _____

A. 40      B. 30      C. 21      D. 25

Who invested his money in buying an old terrace house in Willes Road?

A. Adah      B. Francis      C. Mr. Noble      D. Vicky

"By the time they arrived at the hospital she was convinced Vicky’s innards were going to be taken away from him".

Another word for innards as used in the passage is _______

A. toys      B. cloths      C. temperature      D. Internal organs

Adah accused Francis of killing her child because ______

A. Francis slapped Vicky
B. Francis kicked Bubu
C. Francis stabbed Titi
D. Francis burnt the manuscript of her novel

Adah needed _______ take the entrance examination to the school of her dreams.

A. one shilling     B. two shillings     C. three shillings     D. four shillings

Family planning requires _______ consent to be implemented

A. the man's      B. the woman's      C. the couple's      D. none of the above

Adah heared of a minder called Trudy through who?

A. Miss Stirling      B. Mrs. Konrad      C. Francis     D. Babalola

The title of Ada's new book is _______

A. The Price Bride      B. The Bride      C. The Bride Price      D. none of the above

Who is the chief librarian at the North Finchley Library?

A. Lawyer Nweze     B. Mr. Francis     C. Mrs. Konrad     D. Mr. Konrad

Adah's mother died at the age of _____

A. 40     B. 38     C. 36     D. 32

The landlord's attorney asked Francis and Adah to quit their apartment within _______ months

A. one      B. two      C. three      D. four

Francis blamed failure of his Part 1 examination on _______

A. Adah's pregnancy     
B. Ada's relocation to UK     
C. Adah's children
D. Adah's new job

Lawyer Nweze was warmly welcome back to Nigeria by the women of _______

A. Apapa     B. Lagos     C. Ibusa     D. London

The marriage of Adah and Francis collapsed because of _______

A. Adah’s unfaithfulness to Francis
B. the influence of British culture
C. Adah’s desire for personal fulfillment
D. external pressures on the couple.

Adah’s sojourn in London reveals that _______

A. marriage is an equal partnership between spouses
B. her marriage improves
C. Francis is a hardworking man
D. the plight of the black woman does not change.

"Unfortunately, her obstinacy gained her a very bad reputation"

Another word for obstinacy as used in the passage is _____

A. stubbornness      B. hardworking      C. beauty      D. posture

The name of the unifrom of Ibusa women is "Ezidiji ji de ogoli, ome oba", which means _______

A. “When a good man holds a woman, she becomes like the queen.”
B. "Nothing good comes easy"
C. "Only birds flies"
D. "Education is the best legacy"

Adah's pet name, Nnenna, means ______

A. child of God     B. father's pet     C. Mother's pet     D. Father’s mother

Adah's father was a _______

A. tailor     B. teacher     C. railwayman     D. doctor

“I can’t wait to see them pack their brats and leave our house,”

The statement above is credited to ______

A. Adah's landlord     B. Adah's husband     C. Adah's landlady     D. Adah's co-workers

Adah's son, Vicky, stayed in the hospital for _____ weeks

A. one      B. two      C. three      D. four

“Please marry us without a ring because, you see, before we can get to Ebute-Metta, you will have closed for the day!”

The statement above is credited to ________

A. Marriage registrar     B. Court registrar     C. Francis     D. Adah

Adah was born in _______

A. London     B. Ibusa     C. Lagos     D. Warri

Adah's day started by _______ in her new place after her father's death.

A. 6.30am      B. 4.00am      C. 4.30am      D. 7.00am

What is the name of Adah's second daughter?

A. Vicent     B. Ada     C. Vicky    D. Ngozi

On arrival in United Kingdom, Adah was accepted as a senior library assistant at _______

A. London library
B. Oxford library
C. Cambridge library
D. North Finchley Library

Adah was transferred out of Methodist School because of ______

A. poor performance
B. her father's death
C. Mr. Cole sent her out class
D. her mother's attitude

Adah decided that she will deliver her baby at home because ______

A. she is a third class citizen in London
B. she is a first class citizen in London
C. she want to feed her family with the money meant for maternity wears
D. none of the above.

Nearly all the notices Adah came across while looking residential apartment had “Sorry, no coloureds” on them. This means _____

A. the apartment are not painted
B. the apartment are not for blacks
C. the apartment are not for rent
D. the apartment are for higher bidders

Adah's pet name is ______.

A. Nnenna     B. Ngozi     C. Chinemerem     D. Chikadiobi

Adah's parents referred Lagos to a bad place because _______

A. it is a town with laws
B. the traffic is too heavy
C. crime is on the increase
D. the town is congested

The 'social mother' is referred to as ______

A. real mother     B. foster mother     C. dead mother     D. social media mother

Adah tries to hide her African assent and speaks like a white woman because _______

A. she is need of a decent accommodation in London
B. she need good job
C. she need to improve her communication skills
D. none of the above

Adah sneaked out to Methodist School and walked into the class of _______

A. Mr. Francis     B. Mr. Dabo     C. Mr. Williams     D. Mr. Cole

Adah started work at Finchley on the first day of _____

A. April     B. May     C. June     D. July

According to the doctor, Vicky's ear is bigger than the other because ______

A. they are second class citizen
B. they are from Nigeria
C. Vicky has been bitten by a bed bug
D. none of the above.

Adah was referred to as _______ by the women in the hospital ward.

A. Caesar
B. cord presentation
C. a living specimen
D. mother of Mohammed Ali

Adah threatened to kill ______ over Vicky's illness.

A. Francis      B. Miss Stirling      C. Trudy      D. Titi

“Don’t talk to me. My Dad will cane me with the belt if I speak in Yoruba. And I don’t know much English. Don’t talk to me.”

The statement above is credited to who?

A. Vicky      B. Titi      C. Adah      D. Babalola

Trudy is a ______

A. Adah's friend      B. Adah's team mate at work      C. minder      D. Ada's cousin

Adah endured the hundred and three strokes of cane because ______

A. it wasn't painful
B. she has padded her body
C. she doesn't like Methodist Girls School
D. All she needed to take the entrance examination to the school of her dreams was two shillings

Adah was shocked when she realised that African are treated as ______

A. middle class citizen
B. first class citizen
C. second class citizen
D. slaves

Adah's mother was a _______

A. tailor     B. trader     C. seamstress     D. lawyer

The novel is an expose of the _______

A. pre-eminent position of boys in lgboland
B. experiences
of Adah’s mother in the police cell
C. travails of the girl-child
D. marriage customs of the Igbo.

The rousing welcome given to Lawyer Nweze on arrival at Apapa Wharf made Adah vow to go to _____

A. Lagos     B. Ibusa     C. France     D. London

Adah's performance in the entrance examination earned her a _______

A. monetary prize     B. bride price     C. job offer     D. scholarship

Vicky was diagnosed of ______ at the Royal Free Hospital.

A. malaria     B. typhoid     C. meningitis     D. tuberculosis

According to Adah, African mothers believed that sugar and meat caused ______.

A. worms      B. diabetic      C. low blood pressure      D. high blood pressure

Who is first person Adah remembered when the news of her arrival to united Kingdom was broke?

A. her late mother      B. her late father      C. her brother      D. her husband

To raise readers anxiety about the story, the author sometimes _______

A. stops the main story to narrate other events
B. creates a lot of funny episodes
C. puts too many difficulties in Adah's way
D. shows that Francis is weak

Adah's plan to terminates her 4th child pregnancy was unsuccessful because ______

A. the pills given to her by the doctor did not work
B. Francis refused her plan
C. she is too young to terminate her pregnancy
D. none of the above

Adah got a job at the American Consulate Library as a _______

A. teacher     B. librarian     C. clerk     D. accountant

Adah cover up her poor status on Christmas day by telling people that ______

A. she is a Nigerian
B. she is from Ibusa
C. her husband is a Jehoval witness
D. she is a second class citizen

Adah's request to follow Ibusa women to welcome Lawyer Nweze back to Nigeria was turned down by her parents because _______

A. she was too young for such trip
B. it fell on a school day
C. it not safe for her to travel
D. it rained heavily on that day

Adah was referred to as _______ by the doctors in the hospital ward.

A. Caesar
B. cord presentation
C. a living specimen
D. mother of Mohammed Ali

On arrival in United Kingdom, Adah discovered Francis is a new person because ______

A. he worn a new cloth
B. he joined another religous sect
C. he kisses Adah in the public
D. he worn sun shades

Adah took the risk to have her baby delivered at home just because of ______ pounds

A. two      B. four      C. six      D. eight

"Mr Cole spun round with such alacrity, that Adah took a step backwards".

Another word for alacrity as used in the passage is ______

A. loud noise      B. slow movement     C. smartness     D. backward movement

What is the name of Adah's daughter?

A. Francis      B. Vincent     C. Girl    D. Titi

Pa Noble became a hying legend because _______

A. several conflicting stories were woven around him
B. he attained the Status of a first-class citizen
C. he was the only successful son of a Benin chief
D. he was rich and very generous

_____ was removed from the council list of approved child-minders.

A. Vicky      B. Adah      C. Miss Stirling      D. Trudy

Adah was allowed to continue school after her father's death in order to add value to her ______

A. bride price     B. trip to London     C. mother     D. school

Adah's desire to be fix with a birth control cap forced her to ______

A. resigned from her job
B. forged Francis's signature
C. go to the clinic
D. none of the above

Baby minders found wanting are reported to ______.

A. the police station      B. the court      C. the magistrate      D. the children officer

Boy, Adah's younger brother, attended which school?

A. CMS Grammar School
B. Lagos Baptist Academy
C. Bariga Grammar School
D. Ladi-Lak Institute

"white were fallible as everyone else"

Another word for fallible as used in the sentence above is ______

A. weak      B. strong      C. intelligent      D. hardworking