Infinite Riches MCQs

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Infinite Riches MCQs
Updated on: November 6, 2025
Estimated Reading Time: 17 min

Infinite Riches MCQs

1. What can alter the future of the world, according to Dad?

A. One great thought
B. Political power
C. Collective suffering
D. A new leader

A. One great thought.
Dad stated that one great thought or dream has the power to alter the world’s future.

2. How does Dad describe the state of some people who are born?

A. They are happy
B. They don’t want to live
C. They are more awake
D. They are easily fooled

B. They don’t want to live.
Dad commented that some people who are born don’t want to live.

3. What animal did Dad see coming toward him in the room?

A. A lion
B. A green leopard
C. A wild dog
D. A great tiger

B. A green leopard.
Dad cried out that he saw a leopard coming towards him as the room brightened.
4. What characteristic describes the leopard that appeared in the room?

A. It was loud
B. It was phosphorescent
C. Its eyes were red
D. It was very aggressive

B. It was phosphorescent.
The leopard was phosphorescent and spread no shadows, symbolizing its spiritual nature.

5. What happened when Azaro whispered loudly to Dad, “ARE YOU AWAKE, DAD?”

A. The leopard bit him
B. Dad cried out and jumped
C. Mum woke up screaming
D. The light intensified

B. Dad cried out and jumped.
When Azaro shouted, Dad cried out and jumped, plunging the room into night.

6. How did the dead carpenter leave his grave?

A. By lifting the rock
B. By splitting his coffin
C. By dissolving away
D. By talking to Azaro

B. By splitting his coffin.
The dead carpenter’s swelling body split his wooden coffin, allowing him to leave.

7. What did the dead carpenter do after leaving his grave?

A. Returned home
B. Tried to manifest to dreamers
C. Sat on the rock
D. Asked for a proper burial

B. Tried to manifest to dreamers.
He wandered, trying to manifest to dreamers and hold conversations with children.
8. What was Mum dreaming about that occurred many years in the future?

A. Her final journey
B. Being serenaded by a cement seller
C. The civil war
D. Escaping the forest

B. Being serenaded by a cement seller.
Mum dreamt of a future time when a man who sold cement would serenade her.

9. Who staggered down the street with a bucket on his head, bringing a bad smell?

A. A policeman
B. The nightsoil man
C. A thief
D. A drunk politician

B. The nightsoil man.
The nightsoil man staggered down the street, and his bad smell altered the neighbors’ dreams.

10. What were the future rulers of the nation dreaming about?

A. Bottomless coffers to steal
B. Building schools
C. Justice and peace
D. Their enemies’ forgiveness

A. Bottomless coffers to steal.
The future rulers dreamt of power and bottomless coffers to steal from.

11. What was the English Governor-General doing in his dream?

A. Meeting the Queen
B. Destroying documents and shredding history
C. Planning Independence
D. Building a new city

B. Destroying documents and shredding history.
The Governor-General dreamt of destroying documents and shredding incriminating evidence.
12. What did Dad stink of when he returned freshly bathed?

A. Fish and mud
B. Crude perfume and carbolic
C. Palm-wine
D. Cedar wood

B. Crude perfume and carbolic.
Dad returned bathed but stank of carbolic and a crude desert perfume.

13. How was Mum dressed when she left hawking early?

A. In a yellow dress
B. Like a prophetess
C. In old rags
D. In her best wrapper

B. Like a prophetess.
Mum was dressed like a prophetess in a white smock and beads, cleansing the day.

14. What was Madame Koto complaining about when she was rolling on the ground raving?

A. The political rally
B. Her bad foot and abnormal pregnancy
C. Her missing husband
D. The beggars’ disappearance

B. Her bad foot and abnormal pregnancy.
She was raving and crying out from the pain of her bad foot and abnormal pregnancy.

15. What was the spirit of Ade wearing when he appeared to Azaro?

A. A blue suit
B. A white smock
C. Nothing at all
D. Red rags

A. A blue suit.
The spirit of his dead friend, Ade, appeared to him wearing a healthy-looking blue suit.
16. Why did Ade suggest Mum was not singing?

A. She was tired
B. She was angry at Dad
C. She knew something bad was happening
D. She missed Ade

C. She knew something bad was happening.
Ade said Mum was not singing because she knew something bad was happening.

17. What confused Azaro when he looked where Ade pointed?

A. The forest had vanished
B. Madame Koto was gone
C. Ade was still there
D. The path was blocked

A. The forest had vanished.
When Azaro looked where Ade pointed, he was amazed to find the forest had vanished.

18. Who arrested Dad and why?

A. Police, for theft
B. Soldiers, for protesting
C. Police, for the carpenter’s murder
D. Thugs, for fighting

C. Police, for the carpenter’s murder.
Police came to arrest Dad for the carpenter’s murder, based on political rumours.

19. What cryptic statement did Dad make as he was dragged away by the police?

A. I will return
B. Justice is a black god
C. The leopard sees all
D. Power is an illusion

B. Justice is a black god.
As he was dragged away, Dad shouted the cryptic statement: “JUSTICE IS A BLACK GOD!”.
20. What emotion drove Mum during her relentless walking search for Dad?

A. Fear
B. Rage
C. Love
D. Confusion

B. Rage.
Mum walked relentlessly, driven by rage, complaining furiously about injustice.

21. What quality of Mum magnetized the women to follow her campaign?

A. Her beauty
B. Her eloquence
C. Her single-mindedness
D. Her wealth

C. Her single-mindedness.
Mum’s single-mindedness magnetized the other women, who followed her angry pilgrimage.

22. What characterized the faces of the murderers in the cell?

A. They laughed
B. They kept awake for spirits
C. They were joyful
D. They were apologetic

B. They kept awake for spirits.
The murderers in the cell kept awake, waiting for the spirits of those they murdered.

23. What filled Dad’s being when he saw the leopard in the prison room?

A. Fear
B. Visions he couldn’t understand
C. Profound anger
D. Self-pity

B. Visions he couldn’t understand.
Dad saw the leopard in prison, his being swelling with visions he couldn’t understand.
24. What surprising effect did the policemén’s beating have on Dad?

A. It drove him mád
B. It killed him
C. It opened the gates of his body
D. It silenced him forever

C. It opened the gates of his body.
The beating opened the gates of his body, shifting his self-limiting ego.

25. What did an inmate insist justice was?

A. A lie
B. An idea invented by crooks
C. A dream
D. A black god

B. An idea invented by crooks.
An inmate insisted justice was an idea invented by the big crooks who run the world.

26. What silenced the crowd when Madame Koto was raving?

A. Her ugly appearance
B. The sight of the coffin and grotesque corpse
C. The white birds
D. The police arriving

B. The sight of the coffin and grotesque corpse.
The horrific sight of the coffin and the grotesque corpse silenced the crowd.

27. What did Madame Koto confess to doing with a toad long ago?

A. Feeding it to her pets
B. Cooking it and giving it to the people
C. Using it for spells
D. Selling it for profit

B. Cooking it and giving it to the people.
Madame Koto boasted that she cooked a toad and gave it to the people to eat.
28. What number of spirits did Madame Koto boast of fighting?

A. Seven-headed spirit
B. Six hundred and fifty-two spirits
C. Ten thousand demons
D. The entire army of the dead

B. Six hundred and fifty-two spirits.
She boasted of battling six hundred and fifty-two spirits chaining up their future.

29. According to Madame Koto, where was the secret of their failure buried?

A. In the brain of a dead tortoise
B. In the Governor-General’s office
C. In the Atlantic
D. In their own minds

A. In the brain of a dead tortoise.
She shouted the absurd statement that their failure’s secret was in a dead tortoise’s brain.

30. What did Madame Koto do when her men failed to move the coffin?

A. Charged at them howling
B. Wept silently
C. Asked Dad for help
D. Summoned the police

A. Charged at them howling.
When the men failed to move the coffin, Madame Koto charged at them howling.

31. How did the elite women sabotage Mum’s movement?

A. By arresting them
B. By confusing them with orderly plans
C. By giving them money
D. By spreading rumours

B. By confusing them with orderly plans.
Elite women sabotaged the movement by confusing the poor women with orderly plans.
32. What confirmed to Mum that the women had walked into a police trap?

A. The police officer smiled
B. The door was slammed shut and dogs leapt
C. They found Dad there
D. The lawyer was waiting

B. The door was slammed shut and dogs leapt.
The trap was confirmed when the door slammed shut and three Alsatian dogs leapt out.

33. What silenced the Alsatian dogs during the police attack?

A. Mum’s scream
B. A cultic cry from a woman
C. The lawyer’s arrival
D. The dogs were shot

B. A cultic cry from a woman.
A cultic cry from one woman created a counter-panic and immediately stilled the dogs.

34. What saved the women from the policemén’s pursuit?

A. The police got tired
B. The road convulsed, possessing drivers
C. The arrival of soldiers
D. The Photographer helped

B. The road convulsed, possessing drivers.
The road convulsed and possessed drivers, who crashed, allowing the women to escape.

35. Into how many selves did Dad’s body dissolve in the cell?

A. Three
B. Seven
C. Twelve
D. Six

B. Seven.
Dad’s being dissolved into seven selves in the cell, which Azaro saw at home.
36. What did Azaro fear was happening to him when Dad’s selves appeared at home?

A. He was getting ill
B. He was losing his mind
C. He was returning to the land of spirits
D. Mum would find out

C. He was returning to the land of spirits.
Dad’s flickering selves made Azaro fear he was returning to the land of spirits.

37. What were the herbalists doing regarding their alliances after casting cowries?

A. Strengthening them
B. Reconsidering them
C. Dissolving them
D. Hiding them

B. Reconsidering them.
The herbalists’ seventeen interpretations all led to the same dreaded crossroads.

38. Who was the policeman who tried to make Azaro a substitute for his dead son?

A. The current arresting officer
B. The Governor-General
C. A former officer
D. The photographer

C. A former officer.
He recognized the officer as the one who tried to make him a substitute son years ago.

39. What did Dad boast about in prison to provoke the guards?

A. His innocence
B. His family’s wealth
C. His spirit was made of justice
D. His escape plans

C. His spirit was made of justice.
Dad provoked the guards, boasting his spirit was made of the “inexorable stuff of justice.”
40. What was the essence of the legendary Ozoro’s legacy?

A. Fight all wars
B. Travel across oceans
C. Catch up with yourselves
D. Become blacksmiths

C. Catch up with yourselves.
The legendary Ozoro’s final cry and legacy to the world was: ‘CATCH UP WITH YOURSELVES!’

41. What deity did Dad summon in his cell to unleash revolution?

A. The god of justice
B. The god of chaos
C. A terrible, new deity
D. The god of war

C. A terrible, new deity.
Dad summoned a terrible, new deity in his cell, asking it to unleash revolution.

42. What final discovery did Dad make after the vision of the fire?

A. All objects are alive by fire
B. He was going blind
C. The police left
D. He needed Mum

A. All objects are alive by fire.
Dad discovered the secret that all objects are alive and manifest by virtue of fire.

43. What did the murderers warn about their masters?

A. They were clean and delegated crimes
B. They would soon surrender
C. They were far away
D. They were afraid of Dad

A. They were clean and delegated crimes.
The murderers warned their masters were clean and delegated all crimes to servants.
44. What physical symptom characterized Dad’s silent, post-torture vacancy?

A. Uncontrolled rage
B. Gold ash and diamond powder
C. Limbless serenity of an insáne baby
D. Endless weeping

C. Limbless serenity of an insáne baby.
After the torture, Dad displayed the vacant, “limbless serenity of an insáne baby.”

45. What triumph did the women celebrate with joy?

A. The lawyer’s success
B. The release of Dad from prison
C. The death of Madame Koto
D. Their meeting with the Governor-General

B. The release of Dad from prison.
The women celebrated their triumph: the release of Dad, an innocent man, from prison.

46. How did Dad react to Mum’s embrace upon his release?

A. With joy
B. With anger
C. With vacant, unfocused gratitude
D. By running away

C. With vacant, unfocused gratitude.
He reacted to Mum’s embrace with vacant, unfocused gratitude, as if not recognizing her.

47. What inanimate objects did Dad study after his return, showing his lost discrimination?

A. Dried fishes and black-eyed beans
B. His own face in a mirror
C. The Governor-General’s car
D. The police station walls

A. Dried fishes and black-eyed beans.
He lost his discrimination, intensely studying common objects like dried fishes and beans.
48. What terrifying action did Dad take when he strode toward Mum upon returning home?

A. He shouted at her
B. He threw her over his shoulder
C. He started to weep
D. He attacked the crowd

B. He threw her over his shoulder.
He strode ferociously at Mum, and as she fled screaming, threw her over his shoulder.

49. What change had crept over the Photographer?

A. He became rich
B. A slight oiliness in his manners
C. He was no longer paránoid
D. He had gone blind

B. A slight oiliness in his manners.
A slight oiliness had crept into the Photographer’s manners, suggesting compromise.

50. What did the continually postponed rally come to assume in the community’s minds?

A. Political significance
B. Mythic proportions
C. National importance
D. Profound disappointment

B. Mythic proportions.
The postponed rally assumed mythic proportions, focusing minds on spectacle and music.

Brief Overview

Infinite Riches is a novel by Ben Okri, first published in 1998. It is the final book in the trilogy that follows The Famished Road. The narrative continues the story of the spirit-child narrator, Azaro, and the political and mystical turmoil in his Nigerian community.

The novel is about Azaro, the spirit-child narrator, who lives in a world full of violence and spirits. His father is often restless and prone to fits of rage. Dad is later arrested for the murder of a carpenter.

While Dad is jailed, Azaro secretly circulates through the dreams of the community and the dead carpenter. The dead carpenter’s spirit wanders, demanding proper burial.

Azaro’s mother starts her own powerful protest movement to find Dad. Mum leads a group of women in raiding a police station. They release many prisoners, but they do not find Dad.

Dad suffers beatings and visions in prison. He is released later. He is silent and vacant upon his return. His silence and his fixed smile worry Mum. Azaro notices Dad has gold ash on his skin, a mystical sign.

A powerful woman named Madame Koto, a priestess and power broker, is murdered during a great political rally and riot. Dad recovers his voice and spirit, speaking of revolution.

Mum becomes ill after Koto’s death. The blind old man exploits Koto’s death, causing Azaro great fear. Dad begins hearing voices and strange music.

The community struggles with rewriting history and chaos. After Koto’s funeral, Mum weeps intensely, which helps to soften her stern face. Azaro’s dead friend, Ade, visits him and speaks of finding dreams anew. The era of myth ends, but Azaro remains vigilant.

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