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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Ikem goes to complain about the police constable's conduct?
(a) The officer who detained him is reprimanded severely.
(b) The officer who detained him denies ever seeing him before.
(c) He is threatened.
(d) He is jailed.

2. What does the powerful man have, according to the expression used by the Abazon elder?
(a) The palm oil and wine.
(b) The lightning bolt.
(c) The ear of God.
(d) The yam and the knife.

3. What does Chris's girlfriend study at the university?
(a) English.
(b) Political philosophy.
(c) Economics.
(d) Chinese and Japanese.

4. Which best describes Ikem's apparent attitude toward women, as explained by Chris in Chapter 5?
(a) They should be held on a pedestal and treated like princesses.
(b) They are there only to comfort him, but are not good intellectual partners.
(c) They are the equals of men, according to his Marxist philosophy.
(d) They are beneath men and should be treated as such.

5. Which best describes Sam as a young student?
(a) Intellectual.
(b) Dullard.
(c) Socialite.
(d) Idealist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What message does Beatrice receive from an anonymous caller at the beginning of Chapter 14?

2. How does Mad Medico address the President?

3. What have the Abazonians heard about Ikem?

4. Which is most important in a great fight, according to the Abazon elder: the sounding of the battle drum, the fierce waging of the war itself, or the telling of the story afterwards?

5. Which is true about the Abazon elder?

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