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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Chief Nanga say he is offering Odili a bribe?
(a) Chief Nanga is frightened that Odili is making progress in the area.
(b) Chief Nanga wants Odili to come work for him.
(c) Chief Nanga wants Odili to stay away from Edna.
(d) Chief Nanga feels he deserves to be elected unopposed.

2. How does the cook prove his innocence?
(a) He gives Chief Koko the medicine.
(b) He drinks the coffee.
(c) He eats the soup.
(d) He produces a witness.

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

4. For what does PIV. stand?
(a) Promising Instant Virility.
(b) Protecting Inebriated Victims.
(c) People's Infantry Vanguard.
(d) Poor Innocent Victim.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the chief complaint of the Prime Minister against his dismissed Cabinet members?

2. Who from Anata offers to join Odili's campaign?

3. Why will Odili not retrieve Elsie in front of Chief Nanga?

4. With what weapon does Odo threaten Odili on his visit to Edna's house in Chapter 10?

5. What misunderstood African gesture does Odili explain to the foreigners?

(see the answer key)

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