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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Stone show Garrigan in order to encourage him to try to kill Amin before he gets out of control?
(a) Logs of killings
(b) A video
(c) The secret prisons
(d) Photos of executions

2. Amin admits he knew of Garrigan's interest in ________________.
(a) Traveling the country
(b) Killing him
(c) Marina
(d) Leaving the country

3. Garrigan is miserable at the clinic where he works because everything he sees reminds him of ___________.
(a) Scotland
(b) Sara
(c) England
(d) Merrit

4. Who is the ambassador that meets up with Garrigan at the embassy at the start of Chapter 20?
(a) Perkins
(b) Stone
(c) Amin
(d) Weir

5. What does Idi Amin sprain when he is thrown from his car while driving too fast on the roads?
(a) Knee
(b) Neck
(c) Wrist
(d) Ankle

6. Who advises Garrigan to get out of the city in order to avoid the coup that is taking place?
(a) Nigel Stone
(b) Dr. Merrit
(c) Sara
(d) Marina Perkins

7. Who is the president that is being overthrown by Major General Idi Amin Dada?
(a) President Swanepoel
(b) President Merrit
(c) President Mbarara
(d) President Obote

8. What does Mrs. Merrit reveal to Garrigan as the reason why Dr. Merrit will not go back to England?
(a) No family
(b) No pension
(c) Bad relationship with son
(d) Illness

9. In which city is Garrigan now stationed after his run in with Idi Amin?
(a) Mbarara
(b) Kampala
(c) Nairobi
(d) Dublin

10. Amin threatens a reporter by saying that no one can outrun a ______________.
(a) Man
(b) Dictator
(c) Grenade
(d) Bullet

11. What is the subject that Weir, Stone, and Perkins bring up with Garrigan?
(a) Plants
(b) Lunch
(c) Lorries
(d) Bombings

12. Who is present in the room with Garrigan when he arrives in Stone's office?
(a) Only Garrigan
(b) Only Stone
(c) Only Amin and Garrigan
(d) Only Marina

13. Sara tells Garrigan that Israel is always in a ________________ when he tells her what he hears on the radio.
(a) State of emergency
(b) State of dictatorship
(c) State of peace
(d) State of poverty

14. What does Peter request from Garrigan in order to cover up an affair Peter had with one of Amin's wives?
(a) An abortion
(b) To talk to Amin in private
(c) A lethal injection
(d) Safe passage out of the country

15. What do Stone and Perkins want Garrigan to do to Amin in order to make him more manageable?
(a) Argue with him
(b) Kill him
(c) Distract him
(d) Dose him

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the hotel that the taxi driver recommends to Garrigan when he arrives?

2. Idi Amin actually became the ____________ champion of Uganda, challenging Muhammad Ali to a fight.

3. What is another name for the minibus that Garrigan takes the next day to get to Mbarara?

4. What does Idi Amin offer to Garrigan in return for his help with his sprained body part?

5. When Garrigan hears what Amin knows, Amin states that is he is pleased to find his _________ has been accurate.

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