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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Jokingly, Odili tells his houseboy, Peter, that the government passed a law saying people may only do what two times a day?
(a) Leave their house.
(b) Use the bathroom.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Eat.

3. In what regard does John claim his country is improving?
(a) International affairs.
(b) Women's rights.
(c) Racism.
(d) Economics.

4. What does Chief Nanga say a man ought to do if someone offers to make him a minister?
(a) Slap him in the face.
(b) Accept immediately.
(c) Think about it long and hard.
(d) Run away.

5. Chapter 1 opens with Chief Nanga making an address at which school?
(a) The Anata Grammar School.
(b) The Urua Elementary School.
(c) The University.
(d) Cambridge University.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, in Chief Nanga's days as a scoutmaster, is considered the "very acme of sophistication"?

2. Odili is afraid that Chief Nanga will want to:

3. What is the nickname of Odili's former next-door neighbor in his university days?

4. When does Odili's mother die?

5. What nickname offends Chief Nanga?

(see the answer key)

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