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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which best describes Sam as a young student?
(a) Socialite.
(b) Intellectual.
(c) Dullard.
(d) Idealist.

2. What, according to Ikem, is the enemy of art?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Orthodoxy.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Freedom.

3. Which province is asking for the President's help?
(a) Bassa.
(b) Abazon.
(c) Kangan.
(d) Amazon.

4. What does Chris say the modern leaders of Africa must be like in order to build up their nations?
(a) Democratically-elected Prime Ministers.
(b) Medieval tyrants.
(c) Bloody reformists.
(d) Marxist crusaders.

5. What is the meaning of the phrase uwa-t'uwa, which Beatrice used to repeat to herself as a child?
(a) Woman born of woman.
(b) A woman is a woman.
(c) World within a world.
(d) World without end.

6. What is the former career of Professor Okong, the Commissioner for Home Affairs?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Newspaper editor.
(c) Baptist minister.
(d) Army officer.

7. What happens when Ikem goes to complain about the police constable's conduct?
(a) He is jailed.
(b) He is threatened.
(c) The officer who detained him denies ever seeing him before.
(d) The officer who detained him is reprimanded severely.

8. How does Beatrice feel about Ikem?
(a) She admired him as if he were some kind of minor deity.
(b) He was like a brother to her.
(c) She found him intelligent, but pompous and annoying.
(d) He was her first and greatest love.

9. Which best describes Elewa's personality?
(a) She angers easily but cools off just as quickly.
(b) She rarely ever gets angry, so it is shocking when she does.
(c) She is constantly angry or in a bad mood.
(d) She is slow to get angry but then holds a grudge for a long time.

10. What is Lou Cranford's attitude toward the President and his staff?
(a) Admiring to the point of being worshipful.
(b) Polite and formal.
(c) Shy and a little fearful.
(d) Familiar and domineering.

11. What is Sam's great talent?
(a) He is basically an actor with a great sense of theater.
(b) He is an accomplished classical pianist.
(c) He is extremely clever at manipulating people.
(d) He is a talented military strategist.

12. Who is the President warned may be plotting against him?
(a) The Attorney-General.
(b) Professor Okong.
(c) Major Johnson Ossai.
(d) Chris Oriko and Ikem Osodi.

13. Who is Lou Cranford?
(a) A reporter with the American United Press.
(b) A student of political science.
(c) An American diplomat.
(d) A girlfriend of the President.

14. What does Chris's girlfriend study at the university?
(a) Chinese and Japanese.
(b) Economics.
(c) Political philosophy.
(d) English.

15. What is the Eye of God in the hymn?
(a) Fate.
(b) The Moon.
(c) The Sun.
(d) A hurricane.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beatrice criticize about Ikem's philosophy?

2. What does Chris say the President is becoming?

3. Who is Ikem Osodi?

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

5. What weapon does the SRC director, Johnson Ossai, use to torture his victims during interrogations?

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