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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does the President send to officially welcome the Abazon delegation?
2. Why is Ikem Osodi's girlfriend, Elewa, angry with him in Chapter 4?
3. What is the crime of Dr. Ofe, the target of another of Ikem's editorial crusades?
4. What is one of Beatrice's nicknames?
5. What is the SRC?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who are the cab drivers who come to see Ikem, and why have they come?
2. Why is Mad Medico deported?
3. How does the National Gazette distort Ikem's words to make him seem guilty? What lies are told about his death?
4. Explain the argument between Ikem and Chris at the beginning of Chapter 3. Who has more integrity, Ikem or Chris, and what does their argument reveal about the state of the free press in Kangan?
5. Whom does Okong warn the President about?
6. Why is Beatrice unhappy about the dinner invitation from the President?
7. Who are the demonstrators outside the Palace, and what do they want?
8. What does their stay at Braimoh's house teach Chris and Beatrice about the way the poor live?
9. Why is the President so angry with Ikem?
10. To whom are storytellers a threat, according to Ikem?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the theme of hope for Africa's future expressed in the novel Anthills of the Savannah.
1) What is the significance of the name of Elewa's baby?
2) How is it significant that the baby was named by a group of people from different backgrounds, classes, and faiths--military, worker, academic, market-girl, Muslim, Christian, etc.?
Essay Topic 2
According to The New York Review of Books, the novel Anthills of the Savannah "has wonderful satiric moments and resounds with big African laughter." Write an essay discussing the humor in the novel.
Essay Topic 3
Ikem says at one point that the President is well meaning and will do the right thing if he is told what the right thing is. To what extent is this true?
1) The people around the President fear him and tell him what they think he wants to hear. Does this make them equally guilty for making him into a tyrant? Would he be less of a tyrant if people would stand up to him?
2) Chris says that Ikem's editorials accomplish nothing but aggravating people. Is he right? When, if ever, has the President taken action based on Ikem's urgings?
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