View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main message of the hymn written by Ikem?
(a) The President must help the people of Abazon.
(b) God is punishing the people of Abazon.
(c) The people of Abazon must rise up and overthrow the President.
(d) God must help the people of Abazon.

2. What is Chris's job when Beatrice first meets him?
(a) Minister.
(b) University student.
(c) Commissioner of Information.
(d) Editor of the National Gazette.

3. 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 wrote insane graffiti terrorizing people in a hospital.
(d) He injected a patient with an overdose of morphine, and the man died.

4. 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.

5. 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 moved to a new territory and conquered it.
(d) They prayed to the gods and were helped.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lou Cranford's attitude toward the President and his staff?

2. What is happening outside as the President holds a meeting with his cabinet?

3. What is the position held by Christopher Oriko?

4. In their conversation near the end of Chapter 8, what does Beatrice urge Chris to do?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 398 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample