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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Beatrice feel about Ikem?
(a) She found him intelligent, but pompous and annoying.
(b) He was like a brother to her.
(c) She admired him as if he were some kind of minor deity.
(d) He was her first and greatest love.

2. What does Ikem religiously avoid?
(a) Becoming too involved in neighborhood gossip.
(b) Going out at night in a taxi.
(c) Getting married.
(d) Allowing his girlfriends to sleep overnight.

3. What happens to Ikem on his way to the Palace in Chapter 3?
(a) He is arrested by the state police.
(b) A taxi sideswipes him, drawing an ugly gash on his car.
(c) He narrowly avoids a terrible accident.
(d) He has a standoff with a taxi driver who tries to cut in front of him.

4. What is the name of the school attended by the President and Chris Oriko?
(a) Queen Mary College.
(b) The Boys' Finishing School in Bassa.
(c) The Royal Academy of Kangan.
(d) Lord Lugard College.

5. Who must appeal to Idemili?
(a) Women who wish to bear children.
(b) A man who wishes to take on an important title.
(c) Women who wish to marry.
(d) Farmers who wish to have a good crop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mad Medico once do for the President while they are both in England?

2. What does Ikem Osodi speak out against in his first crusading editorial?

3. Which best describes the Commissioners' attitude toward the President as shown throughout Chapter 1?

4. Which American poet does Ikem quote when he says, "Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes"?

5. Who is Mad Medico?

(see the answer key)

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