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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following best describes Ikem's speeches?
(a) They make listeners feel good about themselves and their land.
(b) They can be shocking and even offensive to their listeners.
(c) They are serious speeches with little or no humor.
(d) They are not typically controversial.

2. What is Ikem's opinion of worker leaders and students?
(a) They hold no power.
(b) They represent the good of the common people.
(c) They are corrupt.
(d) They are "ordinary riff-raffs."

3. What typically happens at police and army checkpoints?
(a) Everyone must get off the bus for questioning.
(b) The guards rifle through the passengers' belongings and confiscate any valuables.
(c) The guards take a bribe from the bus driver and send him on his way.
(d) The guards ask for every passenger's identification papers.

4. According to Professor Okong, why has the President been upset with both Chris and Ikem for the past two years?
(a) He is still bitter about the way they gossiped about his English girlfriend.
(b) He thinks they have been working behind his back to have him overthrown.
(c) They have been leaking information about him to the foreign press.
(d) They did not help ensure his election as President for life.

5. Who does Ikem point out is not in the audience?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Workers.
(c) Peasants.
(d) Students.

6. What shocking news is given over the radio at the end of Chapter 11?
(a) Ikem has been sacked from his job.
(b) The leaders from Abazon have mysteriously disappeared--likely kidnapped by the SRC.
(c) The President is ill and is in the hospital.
(d) The six leaders from Abazon are under arrest for staging an illegal protest.

7. In Chapter 11, what does the President demand Chris do?
(a) Resign immediately as Commissioner of Information.
(b) Suspend Ikem from his job as editor of the National Gazette.
(c) Break things off with Beatrice, who has insulted the President.
(d) Spy on Ikem for him.

8. Who is deported within forty-eight hours after Ikem's speech?
(a) Chris.
(b) Ikem.
(c) The leader of the University of Bassa Student Union.
(d) Mad Medico.

9. What do the visitors say they have heard about Ikem?
(a) He stays home, drinks cold beer, and forgets about the people.
(b) He has caused a traffic accident.
(c) He fights for the small people.
(d) He is plotting against the President.

10. At the beginning of Chapter 16, where is Chris planning to travel?
(a) To the sea coast in the west, where he can catch a boat to America.
(b) To the province of Abazon.
(c) To guerrilla camps in the mountains.
(d) To London.

11. What type of government is proposed by one of the audience members?
(a) A democratic dictatorship led by the working class, or proletariat.
(b) A Western-style democracy led by the middle class, or bourgeoisie.
(c) A theocratic dictatorship guided by the principles of Islam.
(d) An oligarchy led by the educated people of the nation.

12. Why is the President angry when he meets with Chris in Chapter 11?
(a) Beatrice has humiliated him in front of the Americans.
(b) He believes that Ikem helped plan the Abazonians' march on the Palace.
(c) Chris wants to resign from his position.
(d) Ikem has published yet another article demanding the President step down.

13. Who is prepared to go on strike to support Chris and protest Ikem's death?
(a) Factory laborers.
(b) Taxi drivers.
(c) University students.
(d) Members of the President's Cabinet.

14. What is the job of Ikem's prospective mother-in-law (Elewa's mother)?
(a) She is a market-woman who sells cloth.
(b) She is a union leader.
(c) She is a professor at the university.
(d) She is a peasant.

15. What should political leaders NOT do, according to Ikem?
(a) Mingle with the poor or make friends with poor and low-class people.
(b) Drive luxury cars or otherwise show off their wealth.
(c) They can do anything they like.
(d) Pretend to be like the poor by wearing aged jeans.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the landscape change as the bus continues on its journey?

2. What is Ikem's mood at the beginning of Chapter 11?

3. What does Ikem offer the soldier who stops him for questioning?

4. What does Chris ask for at a restaurant that he cannot get?

5. What happens to the President?

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