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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the job of Mad Medico's English friend, Dick?
(a) Poetry magazine editor.
(b) A specialist in African diseases.
(c) Journalist for the London Times.
(d) A political economist.

2. What do the people of Abazon do to anger the President?
(a) They tried to overthrow him.
(b) They took over a neighboring territory, brutally murdering the inhabitants.
(c) They wanted to become an independent state.
(d) They voted against his becoming President for life.

3. According to the poem at the beginning of Chapter 10, what is Africa?
(a) An impetuous son.
(b) A whipped slave.
(c) A back trembling with red scars.
(d) A young tree.

4. According to Ikem, which is the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world?
(a) Black people.
(b) Rural peasants.
(c) Women.
(d) Urban poor.

5. Whom does Beatrice sometimes feel like while in bed with Chris?
(a) Beatrice from Dante's Divine Comedy.
(b) The goddess Idemili.
(c) Queen Elizabeth with her paramour.
(d) Chielo, the holy priestess and prophetess.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sam originally want to become, before he is steered into a military career?

2. What weapon does the SRC director, Johnson Ossai, use to torture his victims during interrogations?

3. At the end of Chapter 8, what does Chris say he won't do?

4. In Chapter 3, who does Ikem say must be overthrown?

5. How do Chris Oriko and the President first meet?

(see the answer key)

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