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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a main point of Ikem's speech?
(a) The people must commit themselves to charitable work in order to help the poor.
(b) Writers should not simply document social problems, but must propose solutions.
(c) The country must not be run by the elite, but by the common people.
(d) Democracy cannot work until the workers and students rid themselves of corruption.

2. Who is Ikem Osodi?
(a) Commissioner for Education.
(b) Commissioner for Information.
(c) Attorney-General.
(d) Editor of the National Gazette.

3. According to the poem at the beginning of Chapter 10, what is Africa?
(a) A whipped slave.
(b) An impetuous son.
(c) A young tree.
(d) A back trembling with red scars.

4. What do the people of Abazon do to anger the President?
(a) They wanted to become an independent state.
(b) They tried to overthrow him.
(c) They took over a neighboring territory, brutally murdering the inhabitants.
(d) They voted against his becoming President for life.

5. Which of the following are mentioned in Ikem's hymn as dying off and leaving no void?
(a) Songbirds.
(b) Wolves.
(c) Vultures.
(d) Zebras.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which best describes Ikem's apparent attitude toward women, as explained by Chris in Chapter 5?

2. How does Mad Medico address the President?

3. Which is most important in a great fight, according to the Abazon elder: the sounding of the battle drum, the fierce waging of the war itself, or the telling of the story afterwards?

4. Where does Ikem meet with the delegation from Abazon in Chapter 9?

5. What do the men who visit Ikem want from him?

(see the answer key)

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