Hello viewers, most especially 2024/2025 JAMB (UTME). by now you should be reading ahead of your exams for success and here in this Article I have provide possible or likely questions and answers to your “SWEET SIXTEEN” novel for 2024/2025 JAMB examination.
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✓In the Novel, Aliya is suffering from a health condition known as ___
Answer: Asthma
✓Bolaji Abdullahi’s “Sweet Sixteen” is written in?
Answer: First person narrative
✓Although, many people thought Grace was a snob but Aliya thinks she was?
Answer: Nice and Generous
✓The novel “Sweet Sixteen” is published by?
Answer: Masobe Books
✓At what point did Aliya start to consider being a lawyer as a career?
Answer: When she found Grisham’s book at the library.
✓In the novel, Aliya is assertive that whenever anyone wants her father’s full attention should?
Answer: Tell him a story
✓According to the sweet sixteen novel, which of these society has “Fat-farms”, where girls were force-fed to fatten them up in the novel?
Answer: Mauritania
✓The spinal bond document gift from Aliya’s father has on it, which of these bold inscriptions?
Answer: Letter to my Daughter
✓According to the novel, which of these character is described as a clear gold medalist?
Answer: Akin
✓What does HAK mean in the book?
Answer: Hugs and kisses.
✓As a child, Aliya hated to be called a child but a
Answer: Young adult
✓According to the Novel, K.P.C is a social media language that means
Answer: Keep the parent clueless.
✓Which of these is a constant presence in Aliya’s life?
Answer: Her Ventolin Inhaler
✓Who is Mr. Bello’s favourite musician
Answer: Mr. Bello listened to Fela’s music and other songs too but his favourite musician is Ali Farka Toure which is from Mali.
✓Whenever Aliya’s mum stops being angry, she
Answer: sings around the house
✓Apart from the Malian singer, who was Mr. Bello’s favourite, whose music does he like too?
Answer: Fela’s music
✓Which of the gifts Aliya receives from her father had she requested for her 16th birthday?
Answer: The compact digital camera
✓According to the novel, at what time was Aliya so sure that she wanted to be a pilot?
Answer: About entering senior class.
✓Due to Aliya’s health condition, she suggests donating which of these to the school clinic?
Answer: Nebuliser
✓Being generous, according to Mr. Bello means
Answer: going out of your way to make others happy
✓Which of these stories was told by Aliya’s father to teach her kindness even to unkind people in the novel?
Answer: The slave and the slaver.
✓What Mr. Bello detest most are not saying your prayers on time and
Answer: Telling lies.
✓According to the novel, Aliya was in dire need for her mother to reveal a secret to her about her father. What is the secret?
Answer: The secret of making his tea.
✓In the novel, the Gandhi’s test is to teach Aliya that
Answer: Contentment is wealth.
✓“Beauty is nothing, but character is needed”. This sentence means
Answer: having a good character is the most beautiful thing.
✓Aliya’s father tries to teach Aliya chess because
Answer: it will make her think strategical.
✓Bolaji Abdullahi obtained B.Sc degree in mass communication from
Answer: University of Lagos (UNILAG).
✓In the novel, if the chapter “stereotype” themed on religious issues, The chaper 1 “The Drive” is on?
Answer: Self-Improvement.
✓In the novel, who often jokes that she was surprised Aliya’s father didn’t name her “CHELSEA”?
Answer: Aliya’s mother
✓What was Aliya’s sixteenth birthday present?
Answer: A portable digital camera.
✓What was so special about Aliya’s 16th birthday letter?
Answer: it had 16 pages and each pages for each year of her life.
✓What was Aliya doing when grace returned from the bathroom on Aliya 16th birthday?
Answer: Dressingher bed
✓What are the definitions Mr. Bello give as the meaning of dumb girls?
Answer: Agirl who needs to live up to peoples’s expectation
✓What statement does Aliya father make to end discussions during visiting days?
Answer: “By the way do you still have your inhalers”
✓What sickness was Aliya suffering from?
Answer: Asthma.
✓What advice did Aliya’s father give to her when she asked if she could return the teddy to bobo.
Answer: “Well is a decision you have to make for yourself”.
✓Mention two incidence that stopped Aliya from returning Bobo’s teddy to him?.
Answer: The duty master approaching them in their mode of discussion and secondly tokunbo travelling to Ireland.
✓What is Bobo’s real name ?
Answer: Tokunbo.
✓She felt she could be charged for the number of words she spoke who is this?
Answer: Grace.
✓What surprised Aliya about her 16th birthday letter?
Answer: She thought her dad copied Maya Angelou work with the title “letter to my daughter”, but was surprised to see her dad copied only the title and wrote the letter in his words.
✓Apart from Public relations job another occupation considered by Aliya’s mother for her father is?
Answer: Stand up Comedy.
✓Who is the king of boys according to the novel?
Answer:Akin.
✓What did Aliya’s friends tell her about having male siblings?
Answer: They are annoying.
✓What was the name of Aliya’s mathematics teacher?
Answer: Miss. Salako.
✓“Must you always be a jerk, she asked menacingly” who was this statement referring to and why?
Answer: To Akin because he pronounced mensuration as menstruation which made the whole class burst into laughter.
✓What was people’s perception about Grace?
Answer: People thought she was a snob because she did not like talking.
✓Aliya’s birthday gift while in school was mostly given to her by?
Answer: The principal.
✓What was written on the teddy bears heart shaped embossement given to Aliya by Tokunbo?
Answer: I love you.
✓To perform well in the terminal examination what was Aliya’s plan?
Answer: To improve her question answering speed by taking off five minutes allowed to each question.
✓What was the title of Aliya’s 12th birthday letter.
Answer: Happy birthday my first lady, remember only God is greater than you.
✓At primary school,Aliya’s father was working with a?
Answer: Public Relations Agency.
✓Who is the author of the novel “Sweet Sixteen”?
Answer: Bolaji Abdullahi
✓How old was Aliya in the novel.
Answer: 16
✓According to one expert; “comprehensive sex education doesn’t encourage kids to have sex”
Answer: true
✓KOTL means…
Answer: kiss on the lips
✓Who almost fainted when he heard that some student were caught on the school basketball court at night having “s*x”?
Answer: Mr Bello
✓Good comprehensive programmes teach students that abstinence is the only sure-fire way to prevent pregnancy and STDs.
Answer: True
✓Adoringly, Aliya was referred to as…
Answer: first lady.
✓Who asked this question “What does HAK and KOTL mean?
Answer. Aliya. Recall that Aliya once asked her dad, Mr Bello: “Okay Daddy, what does HAK and KOTL mean?” And when the father expressed his ignorance of the acronyms, Aliya gleefully answered her own questions; “HAK means ‘Hugs and Kisses’ while KOTL means ‘Kiss On The Lips’”.
✓Mr Bello is a ___ by profession from the novel.
Answer: at the basketball court
✓What is the main message of the story about the hunter
Answer: Parents should pass across their wealth of knowledge to their children and the children should do the same when they grow up.
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