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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the Attorney-General say may not be one hundred percent behind the President?
(a) Ikem Osodi.
(b) Professor Okong.
(c) Chris Oriko.
(d) Major Johnson Ossai.

2. What is Sam's great talent?
(a) He is extremely clever at manipulating people.
(b) He is basically an actor with a great sense of theater.
(c) He is an accomplished classical pianist.
(d) He is a talented military strategist.

3. What does Chris say the President is becoming?
(a) A baby monster.
(b) Increasingly reckless.
(c) A ruthless dictator.
(d) A ridiculous buffoon.

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

5. What is the meaning of Beatrice's given name, Nwanyibuife?
(a) A female is also something.
(b) African warrior.
(c) A female is nothing.
(d) African beauty.

6. What have the Abazonians heard about Ikem?
(a) He has written critical articles about the Abazon people.
(b) He is the puppet of the President.
(c) He has no power to help them now, as he is in disfavor with the President.
(d) He has fought for the poor people of the nation.

7. What is the position held by Christopher Oriko?
(a) Commissioner for Education.
(b) Director of the State Research Council (SRC).
(c) Commissioner for Information.
(d) Editor of the National Gazette.

8. How do the members of the Abazonian delegation receive Ikem?
(a) With murmurs of skepticism.
(b) With jeers of derision.
(c) With shouts of anger.
(d) With a tremendous ovation.

9. What does Chris say the modern leaders of Africa must be like in order to build up their nations?
(a) Marxist crusaders.
(b) Medieval tyrants.
(c) Democratically-elected Prime Ministers.
(d) Bloody reformists.

10. What natural disaster has occurred in Abazon province?
(a) A hurricane.
(b) A flood.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) A drought.

11. Who must appeal to Idemili?
(a) A man who wishes to take on an important title.
(b) Women who wish to marry.
(c) Women who wish to bear children.
(d) Farmers who wish to have a good crop.

12. Where is Sam educated?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Sandhurst.
(c) West Point.
(d) Yale.

13. What does Chris say about Ikem's crusading editorials?
(a) They will get Ikem killed.
(b) He thinks they are rubbish and that Osodi is completely out of his mind.
(c) He thinks they are brilliant, but dares not say so to the President.
(d) They don't accomplish anything but antagonizing everyone.

14. Who is Mad Medico?
(a) A clinically insane mental patient who staged a protest against a hospital.
(b) The President's personal physician, who made an attempt on the President's life.
(c) A foreigner who began a crusade against malpractice in the nation's hospitals.
(d) The nickname of Dr. Ofe, a doctor guilty of serious malpractice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which province is asking for the President's help?

2. What is Mad Medico's job?

3. How does Beatrice feel about Ikem?

4. Which best describes Ikem's apparent attitude toward women, as explained by Chris in Chapter 5?

5. What does Ikem think of the President, Sam?

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