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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who offers Garrigan a room, though Garrigan can tell this is not a very energetic offer?
(a) Weir
(b) Amin
(c) Gugu
(d) Paterson

2. Who has told Amin of the plot being devised against him to assassinate him by drugging?
(a) Stone
(b) Perkins
(c) Weir
(d) Garrigan

3. The people in the city begin _____________ once they realize no one will stop them.
(a) Burning things
(b) Leaving
(c) Looting
(d) Fighting

4. What is Amin talking to when Garrigan approaches him in the prison cells?
(a) A picture
(b) A severed head
(c) His medals
(d) His shoes

5. Who takes Garrigan into custody when he arrives on the dock of the new country?
(a) Nairobi police
(b) Amin's army
(c) A gang of freedom fighters
(d) Tanzanians

6. What had Garrigan thought was in the stuffed animal head that he delivered to Swanepoel?
(a) A bomb
(b) Papers
(c) Drugs
(d) Money

7. What happens to Garrigan once he emerges from his hiding place after the van incident?
(a) He sees Sara
(b) A snake bites him
(c) He passes out from exhaustion
(d) He falls into the river

8. What does Garrigan realize about Gugu when he finds him in the center of town?
(a) He is being beaten
(b) He is crying
(c) He is dead
(d) He is beating others

9. Where does Garrigan decide he wants to go since he is already feeling stronger?
(a) APC
(b) Amin's home
(c) Scotland
(d) England

10. What does the back of the book Garrigan's dad is reading say? "The road ______, the destination obscure."
(a) Dark
(b) Gone
(c) Tangled
(d) Dusty

11. What city do the Tanzanians reach and then take as a result?
(a) Kampala
(b) Nairobi
(c) Capetown
(d) Mbarara

12. Garrigan is done writing, but is haunted by the image of ___________ as it seems to be everywhere.
(a) Amin
(b) The severed head
(c) Sara
(d) The stuffed animal

13. The person who is torn limb from limb, literally, was a supporter of which group?
(a) The Zionists'
(b) The Tanzanian's
(c) Amin's
(d) The Israeli

14. The chapter opens with a _______________ where everything becomes Amin.
(a) Storybook
(b) Recurring dream
(c) Struggle in the bedroom
(d) Battle

15. Who does Garrigan see die during the incident in the middle of the town?
(a) Gugu
(b) Amin
(c) Sara
(d) Nestor

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Garrigan finally feel strong enough to help when he gets up in the morning?

2. Nestor also sends Garrigan a letter, telling him that ___________ is in trouble and that Garrigan has to help.

3. What room does Garrigan discover has already been sacked when he wanders the halls?

4. The ____________ tells Garrigan that it will not be as bad as he thinks it will be.

5. What is Garrigan charged with when he is captured by the group of men at the dock?

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