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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ikem religiously avoid?
(a) Going out at night in a taxi.
(b) Getting married.
(c) Becoming too involved in neighborhood gossip.
(d) Allowing his girlfriends to sleep overnight.

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

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

4. To what does Ikem compose a hymn?
(a) To his country, Kangan.
(b) To the Moon.
(c) To God.
(d) To the Sun.

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

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

7. In their conversation near the end of Chapter 8, what does Beatrice urge Chris to do?
(a) Work to patch things up with Ikem and help protect him.
(b) Apologize to the President on her behalf.
(c) Run away with her to Europe.
(d) Distance himself from Ikem, who is in the President's disfavor.

8. What is Mad Medico's job?
(a) Surgeon general.
(b) Hospital administrator.
(c) Malpractice lawyer.
(d) The President's personal physician.

9. Why is Beatrice angry with Chris in Chapter 8?
(a) She thinks he meant for her to sleep with the President.
(b) She thinks he meant for her to spy on the President.
(c) She thinks he cheated with another woman.
(d) She is angry that he did not attend the party with her.

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

11. On what pretext does a police constable detain Ikem as he leaves the meeting at the end of Chapter 9?
(a) He is forbidden to speak to the delegation or to write about it.
(b) The officer says he is driving an unregistered vehicle.
(c) The officer accuses him of colluding with the Abazonians in a plot against the President.
(d) The officer says he failed to use his parking light.

12. What does the Attorney-General claim the people of the nation want from the President?
(a) They want him to call for national elections.
(b) They want him to be president-for-life.
(c) They want an end to the political killings.
(d) They want him to step down immediately.

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

14. What is happening outside as the President holds a meeting with his cabinet?
(a) There is a large demonstration.
(b) Gunfire breaks out on the streets.
(c) There is a terrible dust storm.
(d) There is a violent hurricane.

15. What is Chris's job when Beatrice first meets him?
(a) Editor of the National Gazette.
(b) Minister.
(c) University student.
(d) Commissioner of Information.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chris say the modern leaders of Africa must be like in order to build up their nations?

2. Who does the Attorney-General say may not be one hundred percent behind the President?

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

4. How does Mad Medico address the President?

5. What is Beatrice's job?

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