1. In the novel, A Bend in the River, Salim starts an affair with the wife of Raymond named
Correct : A. Yvette
2. Salim, starts narrating a story in the interior of an unnamed African country of what river?
Correct : C. The bend of the great river
3. When Salim finds out that Raymond was the ‘Big man’s white man’ why was he thrilled?
Correct : D. Because Salim thinks Raymond to be the highest power in the land
4. What does the river symbolise in The Bend in the River
Correct : B. A connection between the past and present
5. Who is the ‘big man’ in the novel, A Bend in the River?
Correct : C. The President
6. Why does Salim feel sorry for the president after returning from Europe
Correct : B. He knows the future he has seen in Europe could not compare to the President’s promise for Africa
7. Salim travels to London to visit
Correct : A. Nazruddin
8. What is the name of the British Colonial policy Winterbottom is tasked with
enforcing?
Correct : C. Indirect Rule
9. ‘A Bend in the River’ was published in
Correct : A. 1979
10. Salim has a love affair with a women named
Correct : B. Yvette
11. ‘A Bend in the River’ is set in post-colonial
Correct : C. Africa
12. “The New Domain” covers several years during which the country is in a period of
Correct : A. Economic prosperity
13. Salim is both the protagonist and the first-person
Correct : B. Hero
14. Salim gets involved in the illegal smuggling of
Correct : A. Ivory and gold
15. What ethnicity was Soraya?
Correct : A. Muslim
16. What was wrong with Mahesh's engraving machine that makes signs?
Correct : C. He could not get the raw materials to make the signs.
17. What is Indar's moment of insight?
Correct : A. He understands that he was meant to write the African story.
18. How does the purser on the steamer show that he does not respect the President in A Bend in the River?
Correct : D. He sits down when the national anthem is played.
19. What confidence does Indar impart to Salim?
Correct : C. The President is going to replace Raymond at the Domain.
20. Why does Salim think Yvette married the much older Raymond?
Correct : C. She must have thought he was extraordinary.
21. Who is the surprise visitor to Salim's store?
Correct : D. Salim's brother
22. What amazes Salim about Raymond?
Correct : A. He does not seem to love Yvette.
23. What does the President in A Bend in the River do at a ruined suburb?
Correct : A. He builds a large complex.
24. Why does Metty inform on Salim's black market activities?
Correct : B. Because Salim takes Theo's side againt him
25. What do the townspeople in A Bend in the River speculate about the new complex?
Correct : D. That it will be the President's winter palace.
26. Why was Indar turned down at the Indian High Commission?
Correct : D. He is not a citizen of India.
27. What has become of Kareisha, Nazruddin's daughter whom Salim feared he might have to marry?
Correct : D. Kareisha, Nazruddin's daughter, has become a pharmacist.
28. What is the difference between Salim and Indar as they walk to the river after the party?
Correct : B. Salim is confused, but Indar is sure of himself.
29. What does Shoba do when she returns?
Correct : C. She opens a beauty salon.
30. What does Indar mean when he tells Salim he's where it's at?
Correct : D. Where the new revolution will start.
31. Why is Salim released from detention to fly back to his home?
Correct : D. The official keeping Salim has held up the flight and gets reprimanded.
32. Reading some of Raymond's articles, what does Salim conclude?
Correct : A. That Raymond will win the Nobel Prize for literature
33. What word does Indar say kept his spirits high when he first arrived in London?
Correct : B. "Opportunity" was Indar's magic word in London.
34. What is Indar doing in the town?
Correct : D. He is a guest lecturer at the Domain.
35. What has happened to the European statues in the Capital city in A Bend in the River?
Correct : C. They have been melted down for the copper.
36. What is the significance of Ferdinand's question about religion?
Correct : B. It shows that young Africans are looking for a way out of their old religions.
37. What surprising action does the President take for the town in A Bend in the River?
Correct : B. He is disbanding the Youth Guard in Salim's area.
38. Why is Salim jailed?
Correct : C. Because he beat up Metty
39. Why do people like to go to the Bigburger in A Bend in the River?
Correct : C. To get inside an air conditioned building where they do not smell the garbage.
40. Arrow of God portrays the conflict between what?
Correct : A. Traditional culture and colonial presence
41. Which one of Ezeulu’s son became attracted to the religion of Christianity and the evangelical teachings of John Goodcountry?
Correct : B. Obika
42. What is the name of the British Colonial policy Winterbottom is tasked with enforcing in Arrow of God
Correct : D. Indirect Rule
43. What is done to the Chief Priest after his death?
Correct : B. He is decapitated and his head put in the sacred compound
44. Why is Ezeulu convinced that Umuaro has no rightful claim in the land dispute with Okpri?
Correct : C. Because his father told him the land originally belonged to Okperi
45. What is the symbol that signifies peace in Arrow of God
Correct : B. White clay
46. What sacred animal is imprisoned by Oduche in Arrow of God?
Correct : B. A python
47. What ceremony marks the start of harvest in Arrow of God?
Correct : B. New Moon Feast
48. What does Akukalia do that leads to war with Okperi?
Correct : D. He destroys Ebo’sIkenga
49. What is the name of the church catechist in Arrow of God?
Correct : C. John Goodcountry
50. Who agreed to go with Ezeulu at Okperi?
Correct : B. OkekeOnenyi
51. Okeke is Ezuele’s ____
Correct : B. Half-brother, a medicine man
52. What traditional, ritual circumstance prevents Ezeulu from giving Umuaro permission to harvest the yam crop?
Correct : B. He has not eaten the ritual yams left over from the last harvest.
53. What are the differences between how Ezeulu and Obika are treated by Tony Clarke, and how they are treated by John Nwodika?
Correct : D. Clarke treats Ezeulu and Obika as prisoners: Nwodika treats them as guests.
54. What is Ezeulu’s response to Winterbottom’s order that he visit the British compound?
Correct : C. He says the British can come to him.
55. What is the cause of Obika’s death?
Correct : D. He dies after an argument with Edogo and over-exerting himself while hunting.
56. Which character maintains his friendship with Ezeulu in spite of Ezeulu’s apparent stubbornness?
Correct : A. Abueke.
57. What new responsibility does Winterbottom decide to give Ezeulu?
Correct : D. Winterbottom decides to make Ezeulu a warrant chief
58. How did Ulu come to be the chief god of Umuaro?
Correct : A. When Umuaro’s six villages united into one community, Ulu himself came into being.
59. Which character is “visited” by the voice of the god Ulu?
Correct : B. Ezeulu.
60. What is the primary factor in Clarke’s decision to release Ezeulu?
Correct : B. Orders from higher up that there are to be no more “Warrant Chiefs”.
61. Who is Okuata?
Correct : B. Obika’s bride.
62. What action of John Wright’s triggers conflict within the African workers on the road construction project?
Correct : B. He whips Obika.
63. Who accompanies Ezeulu on his return to Umuaro?
Correct : A. John Nwodika.
64. What is unusual about the roadside sacrifice discovered by Clarke and his assistant?
Correct : D. It contains a British coin.
65. Which character offers comfort and support to Ezeulu after he has been imprisoned by
Tony Clarke?
Correct : D. John Nowodika.
66. Who is Wintabota?
Correct : A. Winterbottom, the head of the white colonial government
67. Who suggests to Ezeulu that he has been too hard on Obika?
Correct : B. His friend Akuebue.
68. What sacred animal is imprisoned by Oduche, and why?
Correct : A. A python: Oduche has been told by the white Christians that all snakes, including pythons, are evil.
69. What are the differences between John Goodcountry and Moses Unachukwu?
Correct : A. Goodcountry is white and British: Unachukwu is black and African.
70. Who does Tony Clarke have over for dinner?
Correct : A. His commanding officer: Winterbottom.
71. What relative of Ezeulu’s seems to have a presence in his dream?
Correct : C. His mother.
72. What is the focus of the ritual performed in Chapter Seventeen?
Correct : D. Widows honoring the spirits of their dead husbands.
73. What seems to be the purpose of the Festival of New Pumpkin Leaves?
Correct : B. To cleanse the village of evil.
74. Which of Ezeulu’s sons does he think is likely to replace him as high priest?
Correct : C. Nwafo.
75. Arrow of God is set in
Correct : C. Nigeria
76. Arrow of God won the first ever
Correct : A. Jock Campbell Prize for African Writing
77. War between Umuaro and Okperi is settled by _____________.
Correct : A. white men
78. Arrow of God takes place in a village called
Correct : D. Umuaro
79. Which of the following men is not a priest in the novel, Cry the Beloved Country?
Correct : C. Mr. Carmichael
80. What money does Kumalo use for his trip to Johannesburg?
Correct : A. The money he and his wife have been saving for Absalom’s schooling
81. Why don’t black mine workers bring their families to Johannesburg?
Correct : C. There is no housing for the families
82. Why are the village children dying in, Cry, The Beloved Country?
Correct : A. They lack milk
83. Who orchestrates the building of Shanty Town?
Correct : B. Dubula
84. Why did Absalom’s wife run away from home?
Correct : D. Her mother drank too much and did not get along with her stepfather
85. Where are Absalom and Kumalo finally reunited?
Correct : A. At the prison
86. What is the central message of the novel, Cry, The Beloved Country?
Correct : B. Hope
87. Cry, the Beloved Country is principally about
Correct : D. racial discrimination in South Africa
88. Who was Absalom’s lawyer?
Correct : D. James Jarvis
89. Why were the children dying in Paton’s novel Cry, the Beloved Country?
Correct : D. they lack milk
90. What happens to Gertrude at the end of the novel?
Correct : C. She returns to prostitution
91. Umfundisi in Cry, the Beloved Country means
Correct : B. Parson
92. Of which religion is the Rev. Kumalo a clergyman?
Correct : D. Anglican
93. Who is the co-defendant to Absalom Kumalo when he is awaiting trial for murder?
Correct : B. Uncle
94. Rev. Stephen Kumalo’s brother John Kumalo’s occupation is
Correct : C. doctor
95. Stephen Kumalo goes to Johannesburg because
Correct : D. his sister Gertrude is sick
96. Above Stephen Kumalo’s village there is a farm owned by a white family. What is this farm called?
Correct : C. High Place
97. From which European language did Afrikaans, one of the two major South African languages, develop?
Correct : A. Dutch
98. When James Jarvis goes through his son Arthur's possessions he notes the prevalence of a certain American president in his sons' books and writings. Which president is this?
Correct : A. Abraham Lincoln
99. One of the most forceful themes of Cry the Beloved Country is Paton's pairing of the Native (black) peoples' condition with that of what?
Correct : B. the land
100. In keeping with Cry, the Beloved Country’s theme of young people leaving their villages for work or for other purposes, where do most of them end up, besides the city slums?