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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the poem at the beginning of Chapter 10, what is Africa?
(a) An impetuous son.
(b) A young tree.
(c) A back trembling with red scars.
(d) A whipped slave.

2. What does the delegation from Abazon say they want?
(a) To declare loyalty to the president and ask for help.
(b) To demand that the president step down.
(c) To demand that the president hold elections.
(d) To protest the local government's lack of action.

3. When Beatrice awakens the morning after her argument with the President, what does she hear a bird singing?
(a) Is the king's property correct?
(b) Beatrice, Beatrice!
(c) Wake the lady, wake the lady!
(d) Who mocks the king?

4. What is the crime of Dr. Ofe, the target of another of Ikem's editorial crusades?
(a) He injected a patient with an overdose of morphine, and the man died.
(b) He refused medical treatment to a man who could not pay, and the man died.
(c) He wrote insane graffiti terrorizing people in a hospital.
(d) He gave the family of a dead patient money to sue the hospital where he worked.

5. Which of the following best describes Ikem's speeches?
(a) They are serious speeches with little or no humor.
(b) They are not typically controversial.
(c) They make listeners feel good about themselves and their land.
(d) They can be shocking and even offensive to their listeners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the meaning of the phrase uwa-t'uwa, which Beatrice used to repeat to herself as a child?

2. Why is Ikem Osodi's girlfriend, Elewa, angry with him in Chapter 4?

3. What does Chris ask for at a restaurant that he cannot get?

4. What, according to Ikem, is the enemy of art?

5. In Chapter 3, who does Ikem say must be overthrown?

(see the answer key)

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