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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the powerful man have, according to the expression used by the Abazon elder?
(a) The yam and the knife.
(b) The palm oil and wine.
(c) The ear of God.
(d) The lightning bolt.

2. Why is Beatrice angry with Chris in Chapter 8?
(a) She thinks he cheated with another woman.
(b) She is angry that he did not attend the party with her.
(c) She thinks he meant for her to sleep with the President.
(d) She thinks he meant for her to spy on the President.

3. What is the meaning of Beatrice's given name, Nwanyibuife?
(a) A female is also something.
(b) A female is nothing.
(c) African warrior.
(d) African beauty.

4. To which character from literature does Beatrice compare the American woman, Lou Cranford?
(a) Medusa.
(b) Jezebel.
(c) Desdemona.
(d) Aisha.

5. What does Mad Medico once do for the President while they are both in England?
(a) Nursed him through a long illness.
(b) Found him a girlfriend.
(c) Introduced him to some powerful people.
(d) Lent him some money.

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

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

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

9. Which best describes Ikem's apparent attitude toward women, as explained by Chris in Chapter 5?
(a) They should be held on a pedestal and treated like princesses.
(b) They are beneath men and should be treated as such.
(c) They are the equals of men, according to his Marxist philosophy.
(d) They are there only to comfort him, but are not good intellectual partners.

10. What does Beatrice criticize about Ikem's philosophy?
(a) He considers black people superior to white Europeans.
(b) He is classist against poor people and peasants.
(c) He considers black people inferior to white Europeans.
(d) He fails to include women in his political vision.

11. What is the meaning of the word nneka?
(a) Mother is weak.
(b) Mother is supreme.
(c) Mother is love.
(d) Mother of God.

12. Who is Mad Medico?
(a) The nickname of Dr. Ofe, a doctor guilty of serious malpractice.
(b) A clinically insane mental patient who staged a protest against a hospital.
(c) The President's personal physician, who made an attempt on the President's life.
(d) A foreigner who began a crusade against malpractice in the nation's hospitals.

13. Where is Beatrice educated?
(a) Yale University School of Economics.
(b) She is uneducated, but has good common sense.
(c) The University of Bassa in Kangan.
(d) Queen's College at the University of London.

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

15. What is one of Beatrice's nicknames?
(a) Mama B.
(b) Baby.
(c) BB.
(d) Bea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Lou Cranford?

2. Who, according to law, has control over what is printed in the national newspaper?

3. In Chapter 4, the reader first learns the name of the fictional African country in which this novel is set. What is it?

4. Which major character is from Abazon?

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

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