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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Uchendu, the younger brother of Okonkwo's mother, give to Okonkwo after he comes looking for refuge?
(a) Advice on living in the forest
(b) A basket of yams and palm-wine for his travels
(c) A gun to protect him and his family during their exile
(d) A plot of ground, and two or three pieces of land

2. What does Okonkwo bring back from the bush while Ezinma lays sick in Ekwefi's hut?
(a) Bananas to mix with palm oil, forming a paste which Ezinma can eat easily. This will help keep up her strength.
(b) A bundle of medicinal plants, grasses, leaves, roots and barks.
(c) Soil from the bush to mix with water and form into mud which can be rubbed on Ezinma's body to bring down the fever.
(d) Three small birds to offer as sacrifice to the gods, so Ezinma will get well.

3. Why do all the women abandon preparing the food for the uri and rush off to the Obierika's crop field?
(a) The locusts landed on the crops and have to be brushed off the leaves.
(b) A fire broke out in the field and the women have to stomp it out.
(c) A neighbor's child went to the field and started picking the crops.
(d) There is a cow loose in the field eating the crops and the women have to catch it.

4. Where does Okonkwo bring his family after being banished from his village?
(a) To live in a cave in the hills
(b) To his mother's kinsmen in Mbanta
(c) To an enemy village asking to be accepted
(d) To wander the forests and live off the land

5. What is the shameful death Unoka endures?
(a) Dying of the abomination of swollen stomach and limbs, never to be buried in the earth.
(b) Starvation due to his many failed crops.
(c) Drowning in his own vomit after too much palm-wine.
(d) Beheading because of his many unpaid debts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first man Okonkwo works for as a share-cropper ?

2. What are the crops that are considered women's crops by the people of Umuofia?

3. What is the final ceremony, Amikwu, Uchendu's youngest son, has to perform before getting married?

4. Which of the spectators of the wrestling match are allowed to sit around the huge circle of the wrestling ring?

5. Anasi is Nwakibie's first wife, which makes her the ruler over the other wives of Nwakibie. She is the only wife who can wear her husband's titles. Where are the titles worn on Anasi?

(see the answer key)

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