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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the nighttime entertainment in Giligili?
(a) Squishing bugs.
(b) A crazy old man's stories.
(c) Killing rats.
(d) Watching the fire burn.

2. What is John's most interesting claim about the his country?
(a) It has experienced more racially-motivated violence against whites than blacks.
(b) It has not conquered other countries despite having the power to do so.
(c) It will very likely have an African-American president in the next 10 years.
(d) It will likely invade Africa soon, to liberate the struggling countries.

3. Chapter 1 opens with Chief Nanga making an address at which school?
(a) Cambridge University.
(b) The University.
(c) The Urua Elementary School.
(d) The Anata Grammar School.

4. What does Chief Nanga's lunchtime conversation concern?
(a) Odili's scholarship.
(b) The building of a new school.
(c) The tarring of a road.
(d) The purchasing of buses from England.

5. Finish the quote said by Odili in Chapter 1: "For what is modesty but ________________?"
(a) Lack of self-consciousness.
(b) Self-deprecation.
(c) Great humility.
(d) Inverted pride.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many wives does Odili's father have?

2. What detail about one man's robes in Chapter 6 most catches Odili's attention?

3. What does Chief Nanga think of the president of the Writer's Society's dress?

4. Where do Odili and Jean go after leaving Jean's house?

5. Whom does Odili visit at the beginning of Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Chief Nanga speak to Mr. Jalio, and for what reason?

2. Why is Odili concerned when Chief Nanga voices his intention to go to the hospital with him?

3. What is significant about the languages spoken in the Nanga home?

4. What attitudes do the foreigners at the dinner conversation seem to have toward Africa, and how do they demonstrate such?

5. Why is Odili's next-door neighbor in college called "Irre"?

6. How does "Push me down and take my threepence!" become a popular Anata joke?

7. How does Odili describe his reaction to being a prominent member of the dinner conversation?

8. Why is Odili's father hated?

9. Why is Odili surprised to be awakened early by Chief Nanga after his first night at the Minister of Culture's house?

10. What personal goal does Odili not considering asking for help in achieving, as stated in Chapter 2?

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