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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Ikem on his way to the Palace in Chapter 3?
(a) He has a standoff with a taxi driver who tries to cut in front of him.
(b) He is arrested by the state police.
(c) He narrowly avoids a terrible accident.
(d) A taxi sideswipes him, drawing an ugly gash on his car.

2. In Chapter 4, the reader first learns the name of the fictional African country in which this novel is set. What is it?
(a) Bassa.
(b) Kangan.
(c) Abazon.
(d) Kabisa.

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

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

5. What is Lou Cranford's attitude toward the President and his staff?
(a) Familiar and domineering.
(b) Admiring to the point of being worshipful.
(c) Polite and formal.
(d) Shy and a little fearful.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which best describes the Commissioners' attitude toward the President as shown throughout Chapter 1?

4. What does Chris say the modern leaders of Africa must be like in order to build up their nations?

5. What is the position held by Christopher Oriko?

(see the answer key)

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