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1. Modupe and Tayo always visit where at dark hours
*A. Lebanese Cinema*
B. Hill’s Club
C. Auvergne’s Theatre
D. Las Palmas de Club

2. “Here is some money for the ladies”; The speaker here is ________
A. Uncle Kayode
B. Yusuf(Tayo’s friend)
C. Mr. Adeniyi Ajayi
*D. Uncle B*

3. It was said in the letter written to Inspector Adeniyi Ajayi, that Tayo met King Olav’s son from ________
A. South Africa
B. London
*C. Norway*
D. Brazil

4. Mr. Ike Nwandi, studies _______ abroad
A. Latin
*B. History*
C. Law
D. Modern Languages

5. What was Uncle Kayode’s job rank before his return from Abroad?
A. FBI agent
B. Lieutenant
*C. Senior Army Officer*
D. Superintendent

No options for the following;
6. A simile embroidered to qualify Mr. Ajayi’s silver car was Answer: *It was glistened like a fresh river fish*

7. Before Tayo’s travel, He presumed that Uncle Bola held Answer:*the secret to a woman’s heart*

8. In the last sentence of Mr. Ajayi’s letter to his son was their family’s motto which states Answer:*In all things moderation, with exception of study*

SEE BELOW FOR NEW POSSIBLE QUESTION FROM ALL CHAPTERS OF THE BOOK:

Chapter One Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

1. For what purpose is Tayo travelling to England?
Ans: To take up a scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford
2. What is the name of Tayo’s school in England?
Ans: Balliol College
3. What is the significance of Tayo’s visit to relatives before embarking on his journey to England?   Ans: It is their tradition
4. Through what means of transportation does Tayo travel to England?
Ans: Water

Chapter Two Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

5. Why is Tayo surprised that people do not greet each other in passing in England?
Ans: Because in Nigeria, so much value is attached to greetings
6. In what subject did Bisi receive the highest honours?
Ans: Geography
7. In the Ajayi motto, all things are expected to be done with moderation except what?
Ans: Study

Chapter Three Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

8. Who is Mr Barker?
Ans: He His headmaster and Mr Faircliffe’s old colleague
9. What reminds Tayo of his mother in the Barkers’ house?
Ans: Isabella cooks wonderful meals in a way that reminds Tayo of his mother
10. Christine was in her third year of study when?
Ans: Tayo met her for the first Time

Chapter Four Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

11. What is Vanessa Richardson’s nationality?
Ans; English
12. What is the name of the friend that Vanessa wrote a letter to, concerning the status of women? Ans: Jane
13. The full meaning of JACARI is?
Ans: Joint Action Committee Against Racial Inequality

Chapter Five Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers 

14. What are Christine’s reasons for putting an end to her relationship with Tayo?
Ans: Because she was called ‘clingy’ and the fear of her boy being snatched by  some woman
15. The language of fun among Tayo’s Nigerian friends is ?
Ans: Pidgin
16. What are the things that made Tayo remember home each time he is at Christine’s place?
Ans: Her cooking which reminds him of mama and the juju and highlife music she plays

Chapter Six Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

17. What is the trait that Nessa cherises in Tayo and that is absence in Charlie and Mehul?
Ans: Humility
18. What does Nessa mean by saying she has a ‘’small confession’’ to make?
Ans: She has connections to Nigeria as her father is a colonial officer  over there
19. What did Tayo name Vanessa as?
Ans; Moremi 

Chapter Seven Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

20. What delicacies did Vanessa’s mother make to welcome her daughter?
Ans: Chicken pie and cake
21. For what occasion did her mother ask her whom she was inviting?
Ans: Christmas party
22. Whom did Vanessa’s father invite for the occasion?
Ans: His South African racist miner friends.

Chapter Eight Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

23. How old was the Richardson’s house when Tayo attended a party there?
Ans: About 200 years
24. “We all get embarrassed by our parents”.  Who said this?
Ans: Tayo
25: To whom was it said?
Ans: Vanessa's

Chapter Nine Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers 

26. What, according to the narrator, did Nessa admire in Tayo when she visited him in the room and saw him organizing his records in piles?
Ans: His tidiness 

Chapter Ten Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

27. Where did Simon suggest that they (him, Tayo and their two girlfriends) spend Easter?
Ans: Paris
28. Christine died by------?
Ans: Suicide
29. Why did Tayo feel guilty about Christine’s death?
Ans: His refusal to respond properly to her letters and not giving her attention 

Chapter Eleven Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

30. Who is the only family Tayo has in England?
Ans: Tunde
31. Why does Vanessa’s father detest Uncle Tony?
Ans: To him, he is unconventional to him and because he had the opportunity of achieving a place at Cambridge University which Vanessa’s father didn’t have
32. What qualities did the narrator ascribe to Nancy?
Ans; She is being described as having a ‘supercilious (arrogantly proud) tone and feigned generosity’

Chapter Twelve Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

33. What made Tayo realise how lucky he was for getting a scholarship at Balliol?
Ans: He witnessed the life of struggle most African students live, engaging in ridiculous and exhausting jobs such as bakery and hospital work to make ends meet
34. What do the signs: “No Dogs, No Irish, No Coloureds’’ (Africans and Indians) symbolise in the novel?
Ans: Racism
35. The least strenuous work was reserved for whom?
Ans: The English 

Chapter Thirteen Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

36. Where was bathing done since there is no bathroom in Tunde’s house?
Ans; Kitchen (in tins) or public baths.
37. For what purpose(s) did Tunde throw a party in his house?
Ans: For Tayo and to celebrate Gambia’s independence
38. ‘’Nigerian women are the best’’ who said this?
Ans: Yusuf

Chapter Fourteen Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

39. Whose wedding did Tayo and Vanessa attend?
Ans: Yusuf’s
40. Joyce was expected to be the bride, but the bride turned out to be whom?
Ans: Joy
41. ‘’No! Don’t Moremi me’’ Who made this statement?
Ans: Vanessa

Chapter Fifteen Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers 

42. On New Year’s Eve, what happened to Tayo?
Ans: He woke up homesick
43. Where did he buy his chicken from?
Ans: The Covered Market 

Chapter Sixteen Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers 

44. The finest hotel in Oxford is…?
Ans: Randolph Hotel
45. According to the narrative, who is Tayo’s favourite uncle?
Ans: Uncle Kayode

Chapter Seven Teen Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

46. Who invited Tayo to lead his school assembly with a lecture on Nigeria?
Ans: Mr Richardson
47. ‘’What are your intentions with my daughter?’’  Who made this statement?
Ans: Mr Richardson
48. Who sent Tayo the telegram which reads: ‘’Baba is in hospital, recovering.  Return home immediately’’?
Ans: Tayo’s mother

Chapter Eighteen Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

49. What does Tayo despise Mr Richardson for?
Ans: Bigotry
50. Who is Dele?
Ans: The village  drunk 

Chapter Nineteen Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

51. What circumstance led to the end of Tayo and Vanessa’s relationship?
Ans: Tayo impregnated a woman 

Chapter Tweenty Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

52. In this narrative, Nessa’s dreams as portrayed by the writer are…?
Ans: Writing about African art and culture
53. Who is Salamatou?
Ans: A single mother of half-caste  Sulaiman 

Chapter Tweentyone Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

54. In Tayo’s opinion, what are the root causes of oil corruption and a broken civil service in Nigeria? Ans: Greed and mismanagement
55. In what university was Tayo offered a job?
Ans: Birmingham University
56. Who is Miriam?
Answer: Tayo’s wife 

Chapter Twenty-two Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers 

57. Whose diary did Tayo discover in his study?
Ans: Vanessa’s
58. Why is Miriam loved by Tayo’s family?
Ans: She nursed Tayo’s father with care when he had stroke 

Chapter Twenty-three Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

59. Whose house is described as ‘Beauty in the Heart of Darkness’?
Ans: Uncle Kayode’s house
60, What is the name of the local artiste that took Tayo to the village?
Ans: Akin

Chapter Twenty-Four Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

61. What led to the closure of universities?
Ans: University students protest
62. For what reason is Tayo Opposed to leaving the country?
Ans: He Wanted to wait and help his students

Chapter Twenty FiveLikely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

63. In order of occurrence, what are the challenges Tayo faced that made him reconsider leaving Nigeria?
Ans: The broken pipe, his house boy’s leave of him, his disappointment in the Foundation and threats to his life.
64. What was his purpose of planning to travel to New York, even though he eventually could not? Ans: To receive an award for his book
65. Why did Simon arrange a meeting for Tayo and whom did he hold it with?
Ans: To help in the possible funding of Tayo’s university
66. What was the outcome of the meeting?
Ans: Disappointment 

Chapter Twenty-Six Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

67. Who challenged Tayo on the road on his way home?
Ans: The soldiers
68. What reason did the soldiers give for bringing Tayo home?
Ans: They said Tayo had an accident while driving recklessly 

Chapter Twenty-Seven Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers 

69. What circumstance led to the death of Nessa’s mother?
Ans: Cancer
70. What killed Tayo’s father?
Ans: Stroke
71. By what means did Tayo’s mother die?
Ans: An accident

Chapter Twenty-Eight Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers 

72. How many years of marriage did Nessa and Edward celebrate at their wedding anniversary?
Ans: 18 years
73. ‘’To the woman I love, and with whom I have walked the best 18 years of my life’’. Who made this statement?
Ans: Edward
74. To whom was the statement made?
Ans: Vanessa 

Chapter Twenty-Nine Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

75. What is responsible for the divorce between Tayo and his wife?
Ans: Tayo took priority in his students over his wife and child
76. For what reason was Tayo detained?
Ans: For showing his students Perry Henzel’s film, The Harder They Come. 

Chapter Thirty Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers 

77. What does Vanessa mean by the pick-up-your-stick-and-sandals marriage?
Ans: A kind of love story wherein two lovers who are each other’s first love do not get to marry each other but meet later in life to re-unite
78. ‘’Ah, fuck you, Mum!’’ Who said this?
Ans: Suleiman

Chapter Thirty-One Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

79. What is the name of the home in which Nessa went to check on her aged father?
Ans: The Carrington Home for the Elderly
80. For what reason did Nessa tell her father when she was going to the airport?
Ans: To meet Tayo
81. What was her father looking for before she came?
Ans: His pen 

Chapter Thirty-Two Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

82. What is name of Tayo’s driver?
Ans: Abdou
83. ‘’Marriage is a serious thing’’ who said this?
Ans: Tayo
84. To whom was it said?
Ans: Abdoun

Chapter Thirty-Three Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

85. In what part of the U.S. did Kemi reside?
Ans: San Francisco
86. Whose money was used for Tayo’s treatment after his accident?
Ans: Miriam’s

Chapter Thirty-Four Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

87. Why was Vanessa initially reluctant to publish her father’s manuscript?
Ans: The poor relationship between her and her father
88. Why did Vanessa’s mother return to England with young Vanessa, while her father remained in Nigeria?
Ans: Vanessa’s mother had an affair with their gardener, Danjuma. 

Chapter Thirty-Five Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

89. Tayo was employed to teach Oral histories in Northern Nigeria and the political history of West Africa in?
Ans: San Francisco.
90. ‘‘…Race is a part of the fabric of this nation.  You’re either black or you’re white, and this affects every aspect of your life’’ who said this?
Ans: Kwame
91. To whom was this said?
Ans: Tayo

Chapter Thirty-Six Likely JAMB UTME Questions And Answers

92. What honorary degree did Tayo receive?
Ans: Doctorate of literature
93. Who asked Tayo and Nessa to help take a photograph of them?
Ans: A middle-aged couple
94. Did Miriam grace the occasion of Tayo’s award of honorary degree?
Ans: Yes

THE CHARACTERS AND THEIR ROLES

1. Omotayo Oluwakayode Ajayi also known as TY.

2. Inspector Adeniyi Ajayi : Tayo’s father who was once a court servant and an interpreter in the native administration before joining the police.

3. Mrs Elizabeth Richardson: Mother of Venessa.

4. Mr Jonathan Richardson: Father of Venessa.

5. Bisi and Remi: Siblings of Tayo.

6. Mr Edward Maximilian Barker: The one who welcomed Omotayo prior to the letter given to Tayo by Mr Faircliff.

7. Mr Clark: Tayo’s Mathematics Teacher.

8. Mr Blackburn: British empire history teacher.

9. Headmaster Faircliff: Tayo’s Headmaster.

10. Uncle Bolu also known as Uncle B: Tayo’s uncle who loved drinking and women. And women also loved him in return.

11. Modupe: Tayo’s Lover before going to Oxford at age 19.

12. Uncle Oluwakayode Ogundipe: A Big Man in Lagos, who lived in a luxurious, a senior army officer before leaving for France to study Engineering. He was able to meet Venessa.

13. Helen: Uncle Kayode’s wife.

14. Aunty Bayo: Former wife of Uncle Kayode.

15. Mr Lekan Olajide: whom Tayo met on board - from Ogbomoso.

16. Mr Ibrahim Mohammed : whom Tayo met on board- from Kaduna on a voyage

17 Mr Ike Nwade: A student of History

18. . Mrs Isabella Barker: An attractive young Italian woman who preferred to be called “Isabella”..

19. Miss Christine Arinze : A student of Modern language who later became Tayo’s girlfriend but had a misunderstanding with Tayo because he didn’t want a longtime relationship. She later on had Ike has her boyfriend. She died of drug overdose (Suicide). She studied Modern Languages at St. Hilda College, Oxford

20. Mr Bolaji Ladipupo: A Law student.

21. Venessa Richardson “aka Moremi by Tayo to show her fighting spirit”: Tayo’s white Lady lover..

22. Christopher Okigbo: A poet and Omotayo’s teacher

23. Jane: A Friend to Venessa a physicist also (whites) studying at Cambridge.

24. Pat: A Physicist – Vanessa’s friend.

25. Gita from Kenya: An English student – Vanessa’s friend.

26. Charlie and Mehul: (whites)

27. Simon: The president of west African Student.

28. Francis: From Ghana who was with the idea that independence came far too early for africans

29. Maynes Keynes: Venessa’s grandpa was in the colonial service

30. Lord Lugard: was once the governor of Hong kong before coming to Nigeria and he also became our governor in the year 1914.

31. Nancy Murdoch and Mr Murdoch.

32. Uncle Tony:  Vanessa’s Uncle - who had sex with Jane on their way from the train station.

33. Tunde: the cousin of Tayo who works in the bakery.

34. Yusuf Abubakar: who works in the hospital. HE believed white women were only meant for friendship but not for marriage with his genuine reasons

35. Nkrumah: The first president of Ghana and Senghor of Senegal Kenyatt.

36. Madam Pagnole.: The Cook for the Humes – middle name is Gisele

37. Chinua Achebe:  Author of things fall apart and No longer at Ease.

38. Joyce: Yusuf’s white girlfriend who said he hasn’t heard Yusuf speak Nigerian before and then Yusuf replied her: you daft one, no one speaks Nigerian.

39. Mr and Mrs winter: They live across the road at Bradley – they bailed Tunde , Tayo and Yusuf when they were arrested

40. Joy Williams: The black WOMAN Yusuf got married to.

41. Salamatou: an hairstylist in Dakar, Senegal who died in a motor accident

42. Nigerian coup d’etat and Biafran war.

43. Anais Nin: The first British erotic writer.

44. Jean Luc: A French who had promised to marry Salamatou but ran away after he got to know she was pregnant.

45. Miriam: A nurse, whom treated Tayo’s father and got pregnant for Tayo. Got married to Tayo and gave birth to Kemi.

46. Kemi: Daughter of Tayo and Miriam

47 Aureol: SHIPPING COMPANY.

48.. President Shagari

49. Wole Soyinka: Okri the Booker.

50. Mr Akin: A carver..

51. Dogun Dutse Mobile station.

52. Samir: From Bradford – Interpreter at the Brakery.

53. Suleiman: Salamatou’s son hence Venessa’s adopted son. A Muslim he became and a drop out from Cambridge.

54. Abdou: The driver who was taken Tayo to the airport before an accident occur.

55. Laurent: Kemi’s boyfriend.

56. Danjuma: The gardener – who later had secret affair with Vanessa’s mother.

57. Juma and Saratu: Vanessa’s home cats

58. Professor John Harris: He is the man whom Kemi introduced to his father from
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