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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the hymn written by Ikem, what is happening to the world?
(a) It is drowning in a new flood.
(b) It is suffering from a terrible plague.
(c) It is breaking out in a terrible war.
(d) It is burning up.

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

3. What is Chris's job when Beatrice first meets him?
(a) Commissioner of Information.
(b) University student.
(c) Minister.
(d) Editor of the National Gazette.

4. Which is most important in a great fight, according to the Abazon elder: the sounding of the battle drum, the fierce waging of the war itself, or the telling of the story afterwards?
(a) The story.
(b) The fierce waging of the war itself.
(c) All are equally important.
(d) The battle drum.

5. What does Beatrice criticize about Ikem's philosophy?
(a) He is classist against poor people and peasants.
(b) He fails to include women in his political vision.
(c) He considers black people inferior to white Europeans.
(d) He considers black people superior to white Europeans.

6. What is the meaning of Beatrice's given name, Nwanyibuife?
(a) A female is nothing.
(b) African beauty.
(c) African warrior.
(d) A female is also something.

7. What does Sam originally want to become, before he is steered into a military career?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A musician.

8. Who is Lou Cranford?
(a) An American diplomat.
(b) A student of political science.
(c) A reporter with the American United Press.
(d) A girlfriend of the President.

9. What is the meaning of the phrase uwa-t'uwa, which Beatrice used to repeat to herself as a child?
(a) Woman born of woman.
(b) A woman is a woman.
(c) World within a world.
(d) World without end.

10. What is the Eye of God in the hymn?
(a) Fate.
(b) The Moon.
(c) A hurricane.
(d) The Sun.

11. According to legend, what happens in times past when the people of Abazon suffer?
(a) They prayed to the gods and were helped.
(b) Other territories came to their aid.
(c) They moved to a new territory and conquered it.
(d) They were helped by the great kings of the past.

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

13. What does Lou Cranford say the President should do?
(a) Maintain high levels of debt to the United States.
(b) Increase aid to the people of Abazon.
(c) Limit aid to the people of Abazon.
(d) Decrease the debt owed to the United States.

14. What is Lou Cranford's attitude toward the President and his staff?
(a) Familiar and domineering.
(b) Shy and a little fearful.
(c) Admiring to the point of being worshipful.
(d) Polite and formal.

15. Which best describes Elewa's personality?
(a) She angers easily but cools off just as quickly.
(b) She is constantly angry or in a bad mood.
(c) She rarely ever gets angry, so it is shocking when she does.
(d) She is slow to get angry but then holds a grudge for a long time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Attorney-General claim the people of the nation want from the President?

2. To which character from literature does Beatrice compare the American woman, Lou Cranford?

3. When Beatrice awakens the morning after her argument with the President, what does she hear a bird singing?

4. What is the first shrine to Idemili?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 6, who invites Beatrice to a private dinner?

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