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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the President say is true of all African chiefs?
(a) They are greedy.
(b) They can never trust anyone.
(c) They are polygamists.
(d) They are dictators.

2. Which American poet does Ikem quote when he says, "Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes"?
(a) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(b) Walt Whitman.
(c) Robert Frost.
(d) Graham Greene.

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

4. What is Beatrice's job?
(a) She is a literature professor.
(b) She works in a shop.
(c) She is a newspaper reporter.
(d) She works for the Ministry of Finance.

5. What, according to Ikem, is the enemy of art?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Apathy.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Orthodoxy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the Attorney-General say may not be one hundred percent behind the President?

2. What is apparently the main reason the President refuses to visit Abazon?

3. What is the name of Chris's girlfriend?

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

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

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