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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. Where is Beatrice educated?
(a) She is uneducated, but has good common sense.
(b) The University of Bassa in Kangan.
(c) Yale University School of Economics.
(d) Queen's College at the University of London.

2. What is the crime of Dr. Ofe, the target of another of Ikem's editorial crusades?
(a) He injected a patient with an overdose of morphine, and the man died.
(b) He wrote insane graffiti terrorizing people in a hospital.
(c) He gave the family of a dead patient money to sue the hospital where he worked.
(d) He refused medical treatment to a man who could not pay, and the man died.

3. What is the meaning of the word nneka?
(a) Mother is supreme.
(b) Mother is weak.
(c) Mother is love.
(d) Mother of God.

4. What does the delegation from Abazon say they want?
(a) To declare loyalty to the president and ask for help.
(b) To protest the local government's lack of action.
(c) To demand that the president step down.
(d) To demand that the president hold elections.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what pretext does a police constable detain Ikem as he leaves the meeting at the end of Chapter 9?

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

4. What does Mad Medico once do for the President while they are both in England?

5. To which character from literature does Beatrice compare the American woman, Lou Cranford?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Beatrice portrayed in the media? How does she think of herself?

2. According to Chris, why does Ikem resent him so much?

3. What does Ikem mean when he says it is a writer's job to give headaches and not prescriptions? Do you agree with this statement?

4. Compare Beatrice's religious attitudes with those of her maid, Agatha.

5. 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?

6. Explain the story of the leopard and the tortoise. Why does the Abazon elder tell this story?

7. Why should the President be ashamed, according to Beatrice?

8. Why is Beatrice unhappy about the dinner invitation from the President?

9. Describe Mr. So Therefore and how he got his nickname. What seems to be the attitude toward spousal abuse in Kangan?

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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