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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the former career of Professor Okong, the Commissioner for Home Affairs?
(a) Army officer.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Baptist minister.
(d) Newspaper editor.

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

3. What is Beatrice's job?
(a) She works in a shop.
(b) She is a literature professor.
(c) She works for the Ministry of Finance.
(d) She is a newspaper reporter.

4. What does Mad Medico once do for the President while they are both in England?
(a) Lent him some money.
(b) Found him a girlfriend.
(c) Nursed him through a long illness.
(d) Introduced him to some powerful people.

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

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

7. Which best describes Elewa's personality?
(a) She angers easily but cools off just as quickly.
(b) She is constantly angry or in a bad mood.
(c) She is slow to get angry but then holds a grudge for a long time.
(d) She rarely ever gets angry, so it is shocking when she does.

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

9. What does the President wish to be called?
(a) By his Christian name, Sam.
(b) Kabisa, or "King."
(c) Your Excellency.
(d) Major-General.

10. Who does the President send to officially welcome the Abazon delegation?
(a) Professor Okong.
(b) Major Johnson Ossai.
(c) Chris Oriko.
(d) Ikem Osodi.

11. The fight between the President and the people of Abazon is likened to the struggle between which two animals?
(a) The lion and the mouse.
(b) The elephant and the flea.
(c) The fox and the rabbit.
(d) The leopard and the tortoise.

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

13. What is one of Beatrice's nicknames?
(a) Baby.
(b) Mama B.
(c) Bea.
(d) BB.

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

15. What is the meaning of the word nneka?
(a) Mother is weak.
(b) Mother is supreme.
(c) Mother of God.
(d) Mother is love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the elder from Abazon call the President?

2. What do the people of Abazon do to anger the President?

3. Why is Ikem Osodi's girlfriend, Elewa, angry with him in Chapter 4?

4. Who is Ikem Osodi?

5. What is apparently the main reason the President refuses to visit Abazon?

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