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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. What is Hezekiah's chief motivation in politics?
(a) Protection of the people.
(b) Advancement of an ideology.
(c) Personal autonomy.
(d) Personal gain.

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

3. What does Odo call Odili's new car?
(a) A bug.
(b) A turtle.
(c) A kolanut.
(d) A tortoise.

4. What does Edna bring Odili to drink on the sun porch?
(a) Water.
(b) Beer.
(c) Wine.
(d) Palm wine.

5. Against whom does Odili announce his candidacy?
(a) Chief Kobino.
(b) Chief Koko.
(c) Chief Wagada.
(d) Chief Nanga.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many girls does Chief Nanga promise Odili?

2. How many floors does Chief Nanga's new house have?

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

4. In what way will the new political party differ from the old parties, according to Maxwell?

5. What animals, after leaving the Odo house, ruin Odili's plan involving Edna?

Short Essay Questions

1. What seems to be the likely reason that Edna becomes angry with Odili in Chapter 12?

2. Describe the situation with Chief Nanga and the editor of the Daily Matchet, including its significance.

3. What is the confusion about why Couple is put in jail?

4. How does Odili react to discovering that Elsie is sleeping with Chief Nanga?

5. What significant action does Edna take toward Odili at the end of Chapter 10, and why is it significant?

6. What characterizes Odili's interaction with Chief Nanga at the Samalu house?

7. Why do Boniface and the other bodyguards want 25 pounds, and why does Odili object?

8. What is the method of problem solving that Odili unconsciously employs while reconsidering his humiliation that occurred at the house of Chief Nanga?

9. What is suggested by the revelation that a junior member of Parliament is also a founding member of the CPC?

10. What characterizes Odili's arrival at his friend Maxwell's apartment?

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