KAYA GIRL

QUESTIONS ON KAYA GIRL

1. Which one of the following is Abena’s teacher?

a) Miss Faraday
b) Mr. Ampofo
c) Miss Asana
d) Mr. Owusu
2. Abena’s father is an expert in ……………….
a) Child Psychology
b) Herbal Medicine
c) Dental Surgery
d) Tropical Medicine

Read the extract below carefully and answer questions 3 to 6

“You this girl “, she said, pointing at her the way she had earlier pointed at me. “Abena brought you into
the shop and you couldn’t resist helping yourself to the money”. Pg. 75

3. The speaker in the extract is …………

a) Aunty Omotola
b) Gifty
c) Aunty Lydia
d) Faiza
4. “You” in the extract refers to ………….
a) Abena
b) Gifty
c) Lydia
d) Faiza
5. What literary devices is “you couldn’t resist helping yourself to the money”
a) Proverb
b) Litotes
c) Euphemism
d) Rhetorical question
6. How does “this girl” look upon hearing how she is addressed?
a) Extremely sorry
b) Shocked
c) Unperturbed
d) Very helpless
Use the extract below to answer question 7 and 8

Auntie was hysterical, tearing at her clothes like a mad woman and ripping off her scarf to expose the
short grey hair that hardly anyone ever saw. Pg. 59

7. Why was Auntie hysterical?

a) Her husband had been arrested
b) Her fifty cedis had been stolen
c) Asana had ran away
d) Her husband had divorced her
8. What literary device is contained In “like a mad woman”?
a) Metaphor
b) Metonymy
c) Simile
d) Oxymoron
9. “Stretchy new t-shirt in florescent orange earrings” appeals to our sense of ………..
a) Sight
b) Touch
c) Smell
d) Taste
10. The name Faiza means …..
a) Genius
b) Industrious
c) Courageous
d) Victorious

Use the extract below to answer question 11 to 13

She called me ‘broni’ although I was darker skinned than her, to show that she did not consider
someone as privileged as myself as a true Ghanaian. Pg. 11

11. “She” in the extract refers to ………..?

a) Gifty
b) Faiza
c) Abena
d) Asana
12. In the extract ‘broni’ and ‘darker skinned’ illustrate ………….
a) Zeugma
b) Hyperbole
c) Anti-thesis
d) Oxymoron
13. What point of view is used in the extract?
a) The first person
 b) The second person
c) The third person
d) The omniscient narrator
14. Which one of the following is NOT true about Alhaji Brown Teeth?
a) He has four wives
b) He is admired by the villagers
c) He owns a corn mill and a tractor
d) He is quick tempered
15. The word ‘kaya’ has its origin in ……………….
a) Ga
b) Twi
c) Hausa
d) Dagbani
16. Girls who travel from North to South usually return home for ………………..
a) Millet harvest
b) Groundnut harvest
c) Puberty rites
d) Ramadan
17. Abena gains admission to the university of Ghana to study BA degree in ……………..
a) Sociology
b) English
c) Linguistics
d) Political science
18. Faiza and Abena had been separated for ………………….
a) 5 years
b) 10 years
c) 15 years
d) 20 years
19. The name Faiza means all the following except …………………
a) Victorious
b) Successful woman
c) Winner
d) Brilliant
20. “You don’t have to be a Muslim to have an Arabic name” who is the speaker?
a) Steve
b) Abena
c) Mike
d) Faiza
21. What course had Steve been studying in the UK?
a) Electrical Engineering
b) Theatre Arts
c) Photography and Film
 d) Anthropology

Read the extract below and answer questions 22 and 23

She was wearing a fitted, white satin top with a flowing skirt in the local blue and white print cloth.

22. Which of the sense is evoked in the expression above?

a) Smell
b) Taste
c) Hearing
d) Sight
23. Who does she refer to in the expression above?
a) Roberta Fosu
b) Miss Faraday
c) Dr. Mohammed
d) Helena Owusu
24. Abena has plans to study further in ………………..
a) Medicine
b) Surgery
c) Tropical Anthropology
d) Journalism
25. I lay back feeling like a limp rag. What literary devices are contained in this expression?
a) Metaphor and Personification
b) Alliteration and Simile
c) Simile and Euphemism
d) Personification and Alliteration
26. Faiza went to Secondary School in …………………………..
a) Tamale
b) Tolon
c) Yendi
d) Kumasi
27. ………………. Arranged for Faiza to do her locum at Abena’s father hospital.
a) Abena’s father
b) Dr. Ampiah
c) Abena
d) Miss Faraday
28. “Every good lace needs a good gele” this expression illustrates ………………..
a) Synecdoche
b) Hyperbole
c) Irony
d) Alliteration
29. Which of the following statement is NOT true?
a) Asana will soon open a boutique in Tolon
 b) Asana visited Aunty Lydia’s shop
c) Asana finally marries Steve
d) Faiza finally marries mike
30. Mike and Steve invited Abena and Faiza to a(an) ………………
a) Cocktail party
b) Tea party
c) Dancing party
d) Ice-cream party
31. One of the following is not a theme explored in the story?
a) Marriage
b) Culture
c) Unconditional love
d) Politics
32. Faiza does not want to marry in America because…………………
a) She does not like the weather
b) She does not want to marry a foreigner
c) She does not want to live there
d) She is an African
33. Who is the speaker in “your father is a village boy too”?
a) Abena’s father
b) Abena’s mother
c) Mike
d) Abena
34. ……………… owns the biggest tailoring shop in Tolon?
a) Asana
b) Faiza
c) Rakiya
d) Auntie Fatima
35. Who does ‘she’ refers to in “why don’t you have a look if she’s on face book”?
a) Faiza
b) Abena
c) Asana
d) Gifty
36. On the eve of the wedding, Faiza guides Asana to sneak out of the house to join ……………….
a) Fati
b) Malik
c) Rakiya
d) Abena
37. Which of the following statement is true according to the story?
a) Asana finally marries Malik
b) Mike shows interest in Faiza
c) Steve likes Faiza
 d) Alhaji Brown Teeth finally marries Rakiya
38. Another name for Abena is ………………………?
a) Roberta Fosu
b) Helena Owusu
c) Isabella Ampofo
d) Miss Faraday
39. Abena’s mother has ill-health due to………………….?
a) Cancer
b) Pneumonia
c) Anemia
d) Asthma
40. ‘Their neck muscle is made of steel’. This statement is an example of?
a) Simile
b) Metaphor
c) Alliteration
d) Euphemism
41. How old is Faiza when her parents sent her to live with Auntie Fatima ………………?
a) Four years
b) Five years
c) Six years
d) Seven years
42. ‘She put her hands up to her face’. What literary device is used in this expression?
a) Synecdoche
b) Hyperbole
c) Alliteration
d) Personification
43. Asana is going to be Alhaji ‘s …………………. Wife.
a) First
b) Second
c) Third
d) Fourth
44. According to the story we learn that poverty is ………………………..
a) a state from which one can quit
b) some people’s destiny
c) a permanent condition
d) a curse
45. Girls from the North travel down-South to work and buy………………?
a) Jewels
b) English bowls
c) Bicycles
d) Handbag
46. Asana and Faiza are close because …………………………..?
 a) Abena takes her to be her late twin sister
b) Both are twins
c) Both of them attended the same school
d) They were born the same day
47. Which of the following statement is true?
a) Malik is Faiza’s brother
b) Asana prefers Malik to Alhaji Brown Teeth
c) Malik and Asana are from the same family
d) Faiza wants Asana to marry Alhaji Brown Teeth
48. Which of the following areas does Faiza come from?
a) Tamale
b) Yendi
c) Tolon
d) Tatale
49. What made Abena attracted to Faiza when both of them met for the first time?
a) Faiza’s tribal marks
b) Faiza’s head gear
c) Faiza’s smile
d) Faiza’s height
50. In Accra, the two ladies met for the first time at ……………………?
a) Kaneshie
b) Madina
c) Adabraka
d) Makola
 ANSWERS

1. A
2. D
3. C
4. D
5. C
6. B
7. C
8. C
9. A
10. D
11. B
12. D
13. A
14. A
15. C
16. B
17. B
18. C
19. D
20. C
21. C
22. D
23. C
24. D
25. B
26. A
27. B
28. D
29. D
30. D
31. D
32. C
33. A
34. A
35. A
36. C
37. C
38. A
39. D
40. B
41. A
42. C
43. C
44. A
45. B
46. A
47. B
48. C
49. C
50. D