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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the delegation from Abazon say they want?
(a) To demand that the president step down.
(b) To protest the local government's lack of action.
(c) To declare loyalty to the president and ask for help.
(d) To demand that the president hold elections.

2. In Chapter 4, the reader first learns the name of the fictional African country in which this novel is set. What is it?
(a) Abazon.
(b) Bassa.
(c) Kangan.
(d) Kabisa.

3. What is the name of the school attended by the President and Chris Oriko?
(a) The Boys' Finishing School in Bassa.
(b) Queen Mary College.
(c) The Royal Academy of Kangan.
(d) Lord Lugard College.

4. What is the SRC?
(a) The national military.
(b) The committee in charge of propaganda.
(c) A team of reporters from abroad.
(d) The secret police.

5. How do Chris Oriko and the President first meet?
(a) They were in the military together.
(b) They met at university in England.
(c) They grew up in the same small village.
(d) They were schoolmates at the age of 13 or 14.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ikem Osodi speak out against in his first crusading editorial?

2. What is a crime problem in the city now, much feared by Elewa?

3. Which of the following are mentioned in Ikem's hymn as dying off and leaving no void?

4. What does Chris say about Ikem's crusading editorials?

5. What does Chris do that angers Ikem in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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