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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is apparently the main reason the President refuses to visit Abazon?
(a) He fears being assassinated in Abazon.
(b) He believes the President should not give in to the will of the people.
(c) The people of Abazon voted against his becoming President for life.
(d) The people of Abazon are mere peasants, not worthy of a visit.

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

3. 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.

4. What does the powerful man have, according to the expression used by the Abazon elder?
(a) The ear of God.
(b) The palm oil and wine.
(c) The lightning bolt.
(d) The yam and the knife.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following are mentioned in Ikem's hymn as dying off and leaving no void?

3. What is Chris's job when Beatrice first meets him?

4. What does the Attorney-General claim the people of the nation want from the President?

5. What does Chris do that angers Ikem in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the Abazon leaders fail to support the President's bid to become dictator-for-life, and what does the President do in response to their lack of support?

2. Why do most well-off city dwellers from Bassa never travel to the north of the country by bus?

3. Why, according to Chris, does the President begin to distance himself from Ikem and Chris?

4. What does their stay at Braimoh's house teach Chris and Beatrice about the way the poor live?

5. What does Ikem urge the students to do?

6. Describe Mad Medico's relationship to the President and his attitude toward him.

7. What does the "Sun of April" represent in Ikem's allegory, and what does the allegory imply about the state of affairs in Kangan?

8. What does Beatrice help Ikem to realize about women?

9. Chris urges Ikem to "lie low." If you were Ikem, what would you do?

10. Explain what happens in the parking lot after Ikem meets with the Abazon delegation. What does this incident seem to foreshadow?

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