Exam Quotes

Question 1

Courtesies

Answer 1

World one has to justify simple courtesies

Question 2

Convenience

Answer 2

Live a life cushioned by so much convenience that it is sterile

Question 3

Mixture

Answer 3

Mixture of ignorance and arrogance

Question 4

Condescending

Answer 4

All the same - condescending

Question 5

Nasty/nice

Answer 5

Nasty ones were too nasty and nice ones too nice

Question 6

Trophy

Answer 6

An exotic trophy, and Ivory tusk

Question 7

Two dollars

Answer 7

Work for two dollars less than the other waitresses

Question 8

Rap videos

Answer 8

Mastered the swagger of American rap videos

Question 9

Western influence as child

Answer 9

Watching Sesame Street, reading Enid Blyton, eating cornflakes

Question 10

A western educated man

Answer 10

Science to laugh indulgently at the ways of my people

Question 11

Gawk

Answer 11

Gael at the lives of poor people who could never gawk back

Question 12

Dictate/accepting

Answer 12

People could dictate life

Used to accepting what life gave

Question 13

Pigs

Answer 13

Refused to look at him because he was just like the pigs

Question 14

Clear link

Answer 14

Clear link between education and dignity

Question 15

Car+gun

Answer 15

Everybody in America had a car and a gun

Question 16

Mainstream

Answer 16

If you want to get anywhere you have to be as mainstream as possible

Question 17

Customs

Answer 17

Raked through my suitcase

Foodstuffs as if they were spiders

Question 18

Curled tight

Answer 18

curled up tight like uncle’s fist

Question 19

Eager smile

Answer 19

The eager smile of a person who wanted to be liked

Question 20

Adapt

Answer 20

Never move forward unless they adapt to America

Question 21

Speak English

Answer 21

Speak English. There are people behind you

Question 22

Building smell

Answer 22

Don’t want to be know

Smells of foreign food

Question 23

No culture

Answer 23

Problem

Have no culture, no culture at all

Question 24

Opportunities

Answer 24

A life littered with … opportunities. A life that is not for me

Question 25

Grace

Answer 25

It was grace who

Question 26

It was grace who

Answer 26

Odd rootlessness
Awards
Friends
Grace to Afamefuna

Question 27

Kamara and Tobechi’s relationship

Answer 27

An effortless ease
To 
False ... Ungainly American accent
Silences were awkward
Flatness
Desperate sadness

Question 28

Put it down

Answer 28

Too happy
Did not have to do with him
Put it down

Question 29

Study literature

Answer 29

Study literature at university

Not viable

Question 30

JAMB exam

Answer 30

Wanted to take the JAMB exam again and try for the university

Question 31

Chinaza house

Answer 31

The house shone

Floor furniture

Question 32

Ujunwa’s story

Answer 32

Whole thing is implausible
Real story of real people
Victims
Crude way

Question 33

Accepting

Answer 33

Used to accepting what life gave

Question 34

Edward’s sexual objectification

Answer 34

Tried not to notice that Edward often stared at her body
Never on her face
Lie done for [him]

Question 35

Higher/fewer

Answer 35

The higher you go the fewer women there are

Question 36

Ambition

Answer 36

We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much

Question 37

Terrible choices

Answer 37

They’re pushed to make terrible choices

Question 38

Thin/fat

Answer 38

Rich Americans were thin and poor Americans were fat