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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which best describes the religion practiced by Agatha?
(a) She is a devout Muslim.
(b) Animism, or spirit worship.
(c) Ancestor worship.
(d) She is an evangelical Christian.

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

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

5. According to legend, what happens in times past when the people of Abazon suffer?
(a) Other territories came to their aid.
(b) They prayed to the gods and were helped.
(c) They were helped by the great kings of the past.
(d) They moved to a new territory and conquered it.

6. What does the President say is true of all African chiefs?
(a) They are polygamists.
(b) They can never trust anyone.
(c) They are dictators.
(d) They are greedy.

7. What does Lou Cranford say the President should do?
(a) Limit aid to the people of Abazon.
(b) Maintain high levels of debt to the United States.
(c) Increase aid to the people of Abazon.
(d) Decrease the debt owed to the United States.

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

9. The fight between the President and the people of Abazon is likened to the struggle between which two animals?
(a) The elephant and the flea.
(b) The fox and the rabbit.
(c) The leopard and the tortoise.
(d) The lion and the mouse.

10. What does Ikem think of the President, Sam?
(a) He is a brutal and vicious dictator who must be overthrown.
(b) He is a fool.
(c) He is a brilliant man.
(d) He is basically a good person who wants to do what is right.

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

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

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

14. When Beatrice awakens the morning after her argument with the President, what does she hear a bird singing?
(a) Who mocks the king?
(b) Wake the lady, wake the lady!
(c) Beatrice, Beatrice!
(d) Is the king's property correct?

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do Chris Oriko and the President first meet?

3. What is the meaning of Beatrice's given name, Nwanyibuife?

4. What is one of Beatrice's nicknames?

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

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