1. What offensive question does the commissioner who has been sleeping in the interview ask Obi when he wakes up?
(a) Whether he intends to take bribes.
(b) Whether he can rise above the laziness of his people.
(c) How long he willl survive the system.
(d) Whether he has brought home a white wife.

2. How does Christopher deal with Obi's feelings about his mother's threat of suicide?
(a) Obi does not take it too seriously but Christopher warns that he should listen to his mother.
(b) Obi says he is only concerned about marrying Clara and Christopher calls him a fool.
(c) Christopher tells a story of a woman who threatened suicide but backed away.
(d) Both are worried but Christopher makes light of it.

3. What new evidence does Obi see about the pervasiveness of bribery in Nigeria on the way home on the wagon?
(a) The lorry driver bribes the police when they stop him for driving without a license.
(b) After being stopped by the police, a lorry driver drives until his mate runs back and pays more than it would have cost.
(c) The lorry driver bribes the police when they stop the driver for over-crowding.
(d) The lorry driver bribes the police when they stop the vehicle for speeding.

4. Who is the judge at the trial of Obi Okonkwo as the novel opens?
(a) Isaac Galloway.
(b) Christopher Josephs.
(c) Sam Okoli.
(d) Justice William Galloway.

5. What comment do the elders make about Christianity when Isaac refuses to placate the rainmaker to prevent the rain threatening Obi's homecoming?
(a) Christianity is like palm-wine; it goes to some people's heads, destroying their sense.
(b) Christianity makes hypocrites of adherents like Isaac.
(c) Christianity is all about convenience and man's effort to manipulate others.
(d) There is no point to Christianity if members like Isaac do not use it to suit others.