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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What weapon does the SRC director, Johnson Ossai, use to torture his victims during interrogations?
(a) A razor.
(b) A pair of scissors.
(c) A stapler.
(d) A toilet plunger.

2. What is Beatrice's job?
(a) She works for the Ministry of Finance.
(b) She works in a shop.
(c) She is a literature professor.
(d) She is a newspaper reporter.

3. Which American poet does Ikem quote when he says, "Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes"?
(a) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(b) Robert Frost.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) Graham Greene.

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

5. Which is true about the Abazon elder?
(a) He has a soft voice, but a powerful message.
(b) He is highly educated.
(c) He speaks very little.
(d) He is illiterate.

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

7. According to the African legend recounted by Ikem, what is once true about the Sky?
(a) It was made of food.
(b) It was a woman.
(c) It was close to the Earth.
(d) It was white instead of blue.

8. In the hymn composed by Ikem, who is found dead in the marketplace?
(a) A fortune teller.
(b) A madman.
(c) All the villagers.
(d) A prostitute.

9. How do Chris Oriko and the President first meet?
(a) They were schoolmates at the age of 13 or 14.
(b) They were in the military together.
(c) They met at university in England.
(d) They grew up in the same small village.

10. To what does Ikem compose a hymn?
(a) To God.
(b) To his country, Kangan.
(c) To the Sun.
(d) To the Moon.

11. 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?
(a) All are equally important.
(b) The battle drum.
(c) The story.
(d) The fierce waging of the war itself.

12. What is Chris's job when Beatrice first meets him?
(a) Editor of the National Gazette.
(b) Minister.
(c) University student.
(d) Commissioner of Information.

13. Which best describes Beatrice's attitude as she is being driven to the dinner at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Excited.
(b) Honored.
(c) Angry.
(d) Fearful.

14. On what pretext does a police constable detain Ikem as he leaves the meeting at the end of Chapter 9?
(a) The officer accuses him of colluding with the Abazonians in a plot against the President.
(b) He is forbidden to speak to the delegation or to write about it.
(c) The officer says he failed to use his parking light.
(d) The officer says he is driving an unregistered vehicle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ikem, which is the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world?

2. Who must appeal to Idemili?

3. What does Ikem Osodi speak out against in his first crusading editorial?

4. Which best describes the religion practiced by Agatha?

5. What is the job of Mad Medico's English friend, Dick?

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