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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 11, what does the President demand Chris do?
(a) Resign immediately as Commissioner of Information.
(b) Break things off with Beatrice, who has insulted the President.
(c) Suspend Ikem from his job as editor of the National Gazette.
(d) Spy on Ikem for him.

2. Which of the following does Beatrice realize about her servant, Agatha?
(a) She pretends to be kind, but is really wicked and cruel.
(b) She is totally incompetent, but Beatrice loves her anyway.
(c) She is religious, but has no sense of charity.
(d) Although she worships "primitive" gods, she is not a primitive person.

3. What is the worst failure of government, according to Ikem?
(a) The reliance on capitalism.
(b) The failure to connect with the poor and dispossessed.
(c) The massive and pervasive corruption.
(d) Subservience to foreign manipulation.

4. What do members of the Civil Service Union say about Ikem Osodi?
(a) He is a communist.
(b) He is nothing more than ordinary riff-raff.
(c) He is corrupt.
(d) He is an elitist.

5. What does Chris find when he goes to Ikem's apartment?
(a) A letter Ikem wrote to the editor of the Gazette.
(b) Ikem's body, along with a suicide note.
(c) Army jeeps are outside the flat.
(d) Ikem's flat is in a shambles.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chris, which of the following describes Ikem?

2. At the beginning of Chapter 6, who invites Beatrice to a private dinner?

3. Whom does Beatrice sometimes feel like while in bed with Chris?

4. What are the rich and powerful like, according to Ikem?

5. What does Chris want to do?

(see the answer key)

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