Answer:
Chima notices that Jaja's little finger is gnarled and deformed, and he asks him about it. Aunty Ifeoma quickly says that Jaja had an “accident”. Kambili meets Ifeoma's eyes and realizes that she knows what happened to Jaja's finger. When he was ten, Jaja had not come in first in his First Holy Communion class. Papa locked himself in a room with Jaja and when they emerged he took Jaja to the hospital. Papa had purposefully avoided damaging Jaja's writing hand. Ifeoma knows that Jaja's finger deformity is not the result of a childhood accident, but of Eugene's abusive behaviour. Kambili meets Ifeoma's eyes and realizes that she knows what happened to Jaja's finger. When he was ten, Jaja failed a test. Chima asks Jaja about his little finger, which is misshapen, and Aunty Ifeoma says it was caused by an accident. Chima asks Jaja what happened to the little finger on his left hand. It is withered by abuse. Aunty Ifeoma answers quickly.