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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who does the President send to officially welcome the Abazon delegation?
(a) Chris Oriko.
(b) Ikem Osodi.
(c) Major Johnson Ossai.
(d) Professor Okong.

4. Which best describes the Commissioners' attitude toward the President as shown throughout Chapter 1?
(a) Worship.
(b) Respect.
(c) Fear.
(d) Hatred.

5. What does Chris do that angers Ikem in Chapter 3?
(a) Shouts at him in front of the Council.
(b) Forbids him to write a story about the delegation.
(c) Hangs up the phone on him.
(d) Tells a lie about him to the President.

6. How does Mad Medico address the President?
(a) By his given name, Sam.
(b) Mister President.
(c) Your Excellency.
(d) Uncle John.

7. What is the name of Chris's girlfriend?
(a) Beatrice.
(b) Barbara.
(c) Elewa.
(d) Joy.

8. What is happening outside as the President holds a meeting with his cabinet?
(a) There is a terrible dust storm.
(b) There is a large demonstration.
(c) There is a violent hurricane.
(d) Gunfire breaks out on the streets.

9. What does the President do to punish the people from Abazon?
(a) He discontinued foreign aid to the territory.
(b) He filled in the wells that were being dug on Abazon territory.
(c) He refused to allow medical personnel and supplies to enter the region.
(d) He sent a military force in to police the territory.

10. What is a crime problem in the city now, much feared by Elewa?
(a) Spousal abuse.
(b) Armed robberies.
(c) Rape.
(d) Political killings.

11. What is the real name of Mad Medico?
(a) Dr. Reginald Okong.
(b) John Kent.
(c) John Madsen.
(d) Dick Smith.

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

13. Who, according to law, has control over what is printed in the national newspaper?
(a) The President.
(b) Ikem Osodi.
(c) The Security Research Council.
(d) Chris Oriko.

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

15. What does the Attorney-General claim the people of the nation want from the President?
(a) They want an end to the political killings.
(b) They want him to be president-for-life.
(c) They want him to step down immediately.
(d) They want him to call for national elections.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chris's girlfriend study at the university?

2. Whom does Beatrice sometimes feel like while in bed with Chris?

3. What do the anthills tell the grass of the savannah?

4. Who is Mad Medico?

5. What does the President claim to be?

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