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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the first shrine to Idemili?
(a) A temple on a hill.
(b) A holy lake.
(c) A holy river.
(d) A cave grotto.

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

4. What does Sam originally want to become, before he is steered into a military career?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A musician.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A lawyer.

5. Who is Mad Medico?
(a) A clinically insane mental patient who staged a protest against a hospital.
(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) The nickname of Dr. Ofe, a doctor guilty of serious malpractice.

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

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

8. 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 there only to comfort him, but are not good intellectual partners.
(d) They are the equals of men, according to his Marxist philosophy.

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

10. Which of the following are mentioned in Ikem's hymn as dying off and leaving no void?
(a) Vultures.
(b) Zebras.
(c) Songbirds.
(d) Wolves.

11. What does Chris say the modern leaders of Africa must be like in order to build up their nations?
(a) Marxist crusaders.
(b) Bloody reformists.
(c) Medieval tyrants.
(d) Democratically-elected Prime Ministers.

12. In Chapter 4, the reader first learns the name of the fictional African country in which this novel is set. What is it?
(a) Bassa.
(b) Abazon.
(c) Kabisa.
(d) Kangan.

13. What is the former career of Professor Okong, the Commissioner for Home Affairs?
(a) Army officer.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Newspaper editor.
(d) Baptist minister.

14. What does Ikem Osodi speak out against in his first crusading editorial?
(a) Forced marriage.
(b) Public executions.
(c) Punishment without trial.
(d) Military takeovers.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which best describes Elewa's personality?

3. At the end of Chapter 8, what does Chris say he won't do?

4. Which is true about the Abazon elder?

5. What is the position held by Christopher Oriko?

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