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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What shocking news is given over the radio at the end of Chapter 11?
(a) The leaders from Abazon have mysteriously disappeared--likely kidnapped by the SRC.
(b) The six leaders from Abazon are under arrest for staging an illegal protest.
(c) Ikem has been sacked from his job.
(d) The President is ill and is in the hospital.

2. What is the crime of Dr. Ofe, the target of another of Ikem's editorial crusades?
(a) He wrote insane graffiti terrorizing people in a hospital.
(b) He injected a patient with an overdose of morphine, and the man died.
(c) He refused medical treatment to a man who could not pay, and the man died.
(d) He gave the family of a dead patient money to sue the hospital where he worked.

3. What is the SRC?
(a) The secret police.
(b) The national military.
(c) A team of reporters from abroad.
(d) The committee in charge of propaganda.

4. When stopped by a soldier for questioning, what does Chris tell the soldier his profession is?
(a) A taxi driver.
(b) A mechanic.
(c) A motor-parts salesman.
(d) A priest.

5. Who does Ikem liken himself to at the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) An explorer.
(b) A laborer.
(c) A poet.
(d) A beaten-down slave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Attorney-General claim the people of the nation want from the President?

2. Which best describes Beatrice's attitude as she is being driven to the dinner at the beginning of Chapter 6?

3. The visitors call Ikem "oga." What do you guess is the meaning of that word?

4. What should political leaders NOT do, according to Ikem?

5. What does Chris realize at the end of Chapter 15?

(see the answer key)

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