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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Ikem, which is the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world?
(a) Black people.
(b) Women.
(c) Urban poor.
(d) Rural peasants.

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

3. To whom does the Attorney-General compare the President during their conversation near the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Caesar.
(b) Hitler.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Gandhi.

4. Which major character is from Abazon?
(a) Professor Okong.
(b) Chris Oriko.
(c) Ikem Osodi.
(d) The President himself.

5. What natural disaster has occurred in Abazon province?
(a) A drought.
(b) A hurricane.
(c) A flood.
(d) An earthquake.

6. Who is drinking with Mad Medico at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Ikem and Chris Oriko.
(b) No one.
(c) Chris Oriko.
(d) Ikem.

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

8. What does Ikem religiously avoid?
(a) Allowing his girlfriends to sleep overnight.
(b) Going out at night in a taxi.
(c) Getting married.
(d) Becoming too involved in neighborhood gossip.

9. What is the position held by Christopher Oriko?
(a) Editor of the National Gazette.
(b) Director of the State Research Council (SRC).
(c) Commissioner for Education.
(d) Commissioner for Information.

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

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

12. What god does Beatrice worship?
(a) A pagan goddess.
(b) The unknown god.
(c) Jehovah.
(d) Allah.

13. What is the name of the school attended by the President and Chris Oriko?
(a) Queen Mary College.
(b) The Boys' Finishing School in Bassa.
(c) Lord Lugard College.
(d) The Royal Academy of Kangan.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first shrine to Idemili?

2. What is Lou Cranford's attitude toward the President and his staff?

3. According to Chris, which of the following describes Ikem?

4. Who disapproves of Beatrice's being physically intimate with Chris while the two are not married?

5. Which best describes the Commissioners' attitude toward the President as shown throughout Chapter 1?

(see the answer keys)

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