My Sister, the Serial Killer

Chapters 1-16

Reading Check

1. Femi (Chapter 3)

2. Nurse (Chapter 6)

3. From their dead father (Chapter 13)

Short Answer

1. She wants Korede to help her dispose of a body and clean up the crime scene. (Chapters 1-2)

2. Yautai is in a coma following a car accident. Korede can tell him anything she needs to get off of her chest, but he cannot tell anyone else what she says. (Chapter 7)

3. Ayoola is considered more beautiful, which causes their mother to favor her over Korede. (Chapter 9)

4. Ayoola is careless and uninterested as she helps Korede with dinner, and Korede compares her to a child. Korede also has to explain to Ayoola that she should not be posting cheery pictures of their dinner online because she is supposed to be upset about Femi. (Chapter 15)

Chapters 17-31

Reading Check

1. Cleans it (Chapter 24)

2. Ayoola (Chapter 27)

3. Abusing Korede and Ayoola (Chapter 28)

Short Answer

1. Korede is afraid that Ayoola’s great beauty will make Tade fall in love with her. (Chapter 18)

2. Korede was bullied at school because of her looks, but on Ayoola’s very first day, a senior boy asked her out on a date, and she continued to attract the older boys afterward. (Chapter 19)

3. Yinka makes fun of Korede for wearing makeup, and then she makes a point of telling Korede how wonderful Tade and Ayoola look together. (Chapter 25)

4. Korede has been learning more about Femi—by reading his poetry online, for instance—and she thinks that his personality is not consistent with the way Ayoola characterizes the three men she has killed. Korede also notices that Ayoola’s story about Femi’s death is vague and seems to keep changing. (Chapters 30-31)

Chapters 32-46

Reading Check

1. Cleans (Chapter 33)

2. Purple (Chapter 36)

3. Dubai (Chapter 41)

Short Answer

1. She wants to lie and say that Korede was seeing Femi behind her back because she thinks that this will make her more sympathetic. (Chapter 32)

2. She thinks about her father’s sociopathic behavior and wonders if this is a genetic tendency that Ayoola has inherited. (Chapter 35)

3. Because Gboyega is a married man, and Korede believes that Ayoola is probably sleeping with him, it triggers her memory of her father coming home with one of his mistresses and hitting his wife for objecting to having the woman in their home. (Chapters 37-38)

4. It is Ayoola’s birthday, and her mother thinks this present is appropriate because she believes that Tade will soon propose to Ayoola. (Chapter 45)

Chapters 47-61

Reading Check

1. Seventeen (Chapter 49)

2. Femi’s sister (Chapter 56)

3. Muhtar (Chapter 58)

Short Answer

1. Muhtar wakes up and tells Korede that he remembers her talking to him while he was in the coma. When she questions him, she learns that he now knows about Ayoola’s crimes. (Chapters 47, 51, and 53)

2. Korede remembers being 10 years old and getting lost in the market when she became separated from her mother, who ran after Ayoola and left Korede alone. (Chapter 52)

3. Tade shrugs off her warnings, because he cannot believe that someone as beautiful as Ayoola is not beautiful inside, as well. He attributes Korede’s interference to haughtiness and cruelty, two qualities that Korede does not embody in any way. Because Tade cannot see past surface appearances, he believes that a less attractive woman must have a less attractive character. (Chapter 57)

4. Muhtar wants Korede to see how it is possible for a person to be firm with someone they love, even though they are not doing what the other person wants. He is trying to show Korede that saying “no” is sometimes the most loving thing a person can do. (Chapter 60)

Chapters 62-76

Reading Check

1. A diamond (Chapter 65)

2. Peter (Chapter 67)

3. Ayoola and Korede’s father (Chapter 73)

Short Answer

1. Korede appealed to his practical side: she pointed out that if he continued, he would scar Ayoola and then people would ask inconvenient questions. (Chapter 62)

2. Korede tells him to keep quiet about Ayoola’s attempted attack, or she will accuse him of attacking Ayoola first. (Chapter 68)

3. Ayoola tells Korede that she must choose between Ayoola and Tade and support one of their versions of the story in her statement to the police. (Chapter 70)

4. Korede will not take advantage of the potential escape from her life that Muhtar represents. Instead, she will continue to devote her life to protecting her sister. (Chapter 76)