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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 the meaning of the phrase "Ife onye metalu," painted on the front of the bus?
(a) What a man commits.
(b) Luxurious.
(c) All Saints Bus.
(d) Angel of Mercy.

2. What is the job of Ikem's prospective mother-in-law (Elewa's mother)?
(a) She is a peasant.
(b) She is a market-woman who sells cloth.
(c) She is a union leader.
(d) She is a professor at the university.

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

4. Who will make the journey with Chris?
(a) Braimoh and Emmanuel.
(b) Elewa and Emmanuel.
(c) Braimoh and his wife, Aina.
(d) Elewa and Braimoh.

5. What does Ikem say is the title of his speech?
(a) Caesar and Brutus.
(b) Samson and Jezebel.
(c) The Tortoise and the Leopard.
(d) The Elephant and the Mouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will Africa eventually have, according to the poem at the beginning of Chapter 10?

2. 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?

3. What does Chris say about Ikem's crusading editorials?

4. What is the meaning of NTBB?

5. What does Mad Medico once do for the President while they are both in England?

(see the answer key)

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