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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. How do the members of the Abazonian delegation receive Ikem?
(a) With shouts of anger.
(b) With a tremendous ovation.
(c) With murmurs of skepticism.
(d) With jeers of derision.

2. What does Ikem think of the President, Sam?
(a) He is a fool.
(b) He is a brutal and vicious dictator who must be overthrown.
(c) He is a brilliant man.
(d) He is basically a good person who wants to do what is right.

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

4. What natural disaster has occurred in Abazon province?
(a) A drought.
(b) An earthquake.
(c) A flood.
(d) A hurricane.

5. Who is drinking with Mad Medico at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Ikem and Chris Oriko.
(b) Ikem.
(c) Chris Oriko.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chris's girlfriend study at the university?

2. What is a crime problem in the city now, much feared by Elewa?

3. What does the elder from Abazon call the President?

4. Who does the Attorney-General say may not be one hundred percent behind the President?

5. To whom does the Attorney-General compare the President during their conversation near the end of Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the male chauvinism in Beatrice's childhood home.

2. What is the subject of Ikem's editorial "Hymn to the Sun"? What point is he trying to make with it?

3. Explain what happens in the parking lot after Ikem meets with the Abazon delegation. What does this incident seem to foreshadow?

4. Why is Beatrice angry with Chris? Does she have a right to be angry?

5. Why, according to the Attorney-General, might Christopher Oriko pose a threat? Does the Attorney-General seem trustworthy?

6. Explain the argument between Ikem and Chris at the beginning of Chapter 3. Who has more integrity, Ikem or Chris, and what does their argument reveal about the state of the free press in Kangan?

7. Why do the Abazon leaders fail to support the President's bid to become dictator-for-life, and what does the President do in response to their lack of support?

8. Interpret Chris's dying words, "the last green."

9. Why does Agatha refuse to serve Elewa? What does the incident suggest about class differences in their society?

10. What is meant by the "Desdemona complex," and how does it apply to the President's behavior at the party?

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