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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ikem religiously avoid?
(a) Going out at night in a taxi.
(b) Getting married.
(c) Allowing his girlfriends to sleep overnight.
(d) Becoming too involved in neighborhood gossip.

2. What should political leaders NOT do, according to Ikem?
(a) Drive luxury cars or otherwise show off their wealth.
(b) They can do anything they like.
(c) Mingle with the poor or make friends with poor and low-class people.
(d) Pretend to be like the poor by wearing aged jeans.

3. In the hymn composed by Ikem, who is found dead in the marketplace?
(a) A prostitute.
(b) All the villagers.
(c) A fortune teller.
(d) A madman.

4. Why is the President angry when he meets with Chris in Chapter 11?
(a) Beatrice has humiliated him in front of the Americans.
(b) He believes that Ikem helped plan the Abazonians' march on the Palace.
(c) Ikem has published yet another article demanding the President step down.
(d) Chris wants to resign from his position.

5. What does the powerful man have, according to the expression used by the Abazon elder?
(a) The ear of God.
(b) The yam and the knife.
(c) The lightning bolt.
(d) The palm oil and wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to legend, what happens in times past when the people of Abazon suffer?

2. Who is prepared to go on strike to support Chris and protest Ikem's death?

3. What is Chris's job when Beatrice first meets him?

4. Where does Ikem go to make a speech in Chapter 12?

5. According to the poem at the beginning of Chapter 10, what is Africa?

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