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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Ikem Osodi?
(a) Attorney-General.
(b) Commissioner for Information.
(c) Editor of the National Gazette.
(d) Commissioner for Education.

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

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

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

5. At the beginning of Chapter 6, who invites Beatrice to a private dinner?
(a) Sam.
(b) Agatha.
(c) Chris.
(d) Ikem.

6. Which of the following is NOT true about the Director of the SRC, Johnson Ossai?
(a) He is friendly and talkative.
(b) He is young and good-looking.
(c) He looks strong in a very disagreeable way.
(d) He speaks obsequiously to the President.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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.

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

15. What have the Abazonians heard about Ikem?
(a) He has no power to help them now, as he is in disfavor with the President.
(b) He is the puppet of the President.
(c) He has fought for the poor people of the nation.
(d) He has written critical articles about the Abazon people.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the elder from Abazon call the President?

3. What is the former career of Professor Okong, the Commissioner for Home Affairs?

4. What natural disaster has occurred in Abazon province?

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

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