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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 is slow to get angry but then holds a grudge for a long time.
(d) She rarely ever gets angry, so it is shocking when she does.

3. Which best describes Ikem's apparent attitude toward women, as explained by Chris in Chapter 5?
(a) They are the equals of men, according to his Marxist philosophy.
(b) They should be held on a pedestal and treated like princesses.
(c) They are there only to comfort him, but are not good intellectual partners.
(d) They are beneath men and should be treated as such.

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

5. Where is Sam educated?
(a) Yale.
(b) West Point.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Sandhurst.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, the reader first learns the name of the fictional African country in which this novel is set. What is it?

2. What is the name of the school attended by the President and Chris Oriko?

3. How does the Attorney-General describe himself to the President?

4. Why is Ikem Osodi's girlfriend, Elewa, angry with him in Chapter 4?

5. How do Chris Oriko and the President first meet?

(see the answer key)

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