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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Chris smile as he dies?
(a) He was smiling as he remembered the innocence of the past.
(b) He smiled because the President was dead and Kangan would be free again.
(c) He was smiling at the irony of how the three once-proud friends had fallen.
(d) He smiled as he thought of Beatrice, his one true love.

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

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

4. What is the worst failure of government, according to Ikem?
(a) Subservience to foreign manipulation.
(b) The failure to connect with the poor and dispossessed.
(c) The reliance on capitalism.
(d) The massive and pervasive corruption.

5. What is revealed about Elewa in Chapter 13?
(a) She is actually a spy for the secret police.
(b) She is pregnant with Ikem's baby.
(c) She also participated in the plot to overthrow the President.
(d) She wrote the letter incriminating Ikem.

6. 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 peasant.
(c) She is a professor at the university.
(d) She is a union leader.

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

8. What does Chris's death teach Emmanuel?
(a) That life is short and must be savored.
(b) That the world is a cruel place.
(c) That death is something to be laughed at, not feared.
(d) That it is possible to die with dignity.

9. What are the rich and powerful like, according to Ikem?
(a) Lions.
(b) Roosters.
(c) Peacocks.
(d) Elephants.

10. According to the poem at the beginning of Chapter 10, what is Africa?
(a) An impetuous son.
(b) A back trembling with red scars.
(c) A whipped slave.
(d) A young tree.

11. Which of the following does Beatrice realize about her servant, Agatha?
(a) She is religious, but has no sense of charity.
(b) She is totally incompetent, but Beatrice loves her anyway.
(c) She pretends to be kind, but is really wicked and cruel.
(d) Although she worships "primitive" gods, she is not a primitive person.

12. What does Chris find when he goes to Ikem's apartment?
(a) Ikem's body, along with a suicide note.
(b) Ikem's flat is in a shambles.
(c) A letter Ikem wrote to the editor of the Gazette.
(d) Army jeeps are outside the flat.

13. What ceremony is Beatrice planning to hold in her apartment at the beginning of Chapter 18?
(a) A wedding ceremony for Emmanuel and Adamma.
(b) A naming ceremony for Elewa's baby girl.
(c) A welcoming ceremony for the new government of Kangan.
(d) A funeral ceremony in memory of Chris and Ikem.

14. Who is Braimoh?
(a) A priest.
(b) Chris's former government aide.
(c) A taxi driver.
(d) A student union leader.

15. In what has Ikem lost his faith?
(a) The art of journalism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Public affairs.
(d) The monarchy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of government is proposed by one of the audience members?

2. Who does Ikem liken himself to at the beginning of Chapter 11?

3. What do people call the type of bus Chris and his companions take?

4. According to the National Gazette, Chris is spotted wearing what disguise?

5. Who is deported within forty-eight hours after Ikem's speech?

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