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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Idi Amin actually became the ____________ champion of Uganda, challenging Muhammad Ali to a fight.
(a) Wrestling
(b) Boxing
(c) Kickboxing
(d) Dancing

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

3. When Garrigan is walking through the town, he notices Marina Perkins in a bar with ______________.
(a) Her husband
(b) Idi Amin
(c) Nigel Stone
(d) Swanepoel

4. Who is the servant that does not appear when the Merrits call on him to help Garrigan, their new guest?
(a) Bonney
(b) Obote
(c) Nestor
(d) Gugu

5. Barclay tells Garrigan that there is a place nearby where they can buy food, but the owner is ______________.
(a) Crazy
(b) Tanzanian
(c) Never there
(d) Old

6. What does Idi Amin hit when he is driving his car far too quickly on the roads?
(a) Another car
(b) Cow
(c) Man
(d) Pole

7. Most of the ailments that Garrigan treats at the hospital involve some sort of _____________.
(a) Food
(b) Abuse
(c) Injury
(d) Infection

8. Who does Nigel Stone say is a ceremonial official and not Stone's boss?
(a) Colonel Mugabe
(b) Perkins
(c) Peter Weir
(d) Idi Amin

9. Who is NOT a part of the dinner at the Merrits' at the start of Chapter 11 in the book?
(a) Sara
(b) Garrigan
(c) Dr. Dawson
(d) Ivor

10. What is the health problem Garrigan thinks he has, though Sara discovers otherwise and fixes him right up?
(a) Acid reflex
(b) Ear infection
(c) Gas
(d) Appendicitis

11. What is NOT one of the things that Amin uses to fund the network he builds in order to stage a coup?
(a) Ivory
(b) Gold
(c) Diamonds
(d) Milk

12. Who sends Garrigan a note, inviting him to come visit him at his home?
(a) Bonney
(b) Gaga
(c) Grapa
(d) Dr. Merrit

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

14. Perkins tells Garrigan that Amin will soon be cracking down on the ________ and he is right.
(a) Asians
(b) Spanish
(c) French
(d) British

15. Garrigan is invited to attend the ___________ service in celebration of Amin's marriage to his fourth wife.
(a) Voodoo
(b) Pagan
(c) Christian
(d) Muslim

Short Answer Questions

1. Garrigan takes a long lunch in order to see the ____________ of the Baganda kings.

2. Whose death is considered to be the most traumatic thing to have happened to Garrigan?

3. Amin also says that Swanepoel is a spy for a ______________ aviation company.

4. At the clinic, what does the refrigeration run on as the generator can not be trusted to work all the time?

5. What would have killed Idi Amin during his assassination attempt had he not moved to another seat?

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