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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Obiageli, Nwoye's sister, comes home crying because her water pot is broken. How did her waterpot break?
(a) She was pushed by Nwoye's younger brother and fell with her pot, spilling the water and smashing the pot.
(b) She tripped over a stone in the pathway, and fell with her water pot.
(c) She overfilled the pot with water and was unable to carry the weight. The pot tipped and fell.
(d) She was showing off, swaying her waist and the pot fell.

2. How does Ezinma, the daughter of Okonkwo's second wife, bring fire to Nwoye's mother's hut?
(a) Ekwefi, Okonkwo's second wife, makes a torch of banana leaves and palm oil, and gives it to Ezinma to carry to Nwoye's mother.
(b) Ekwefi, Okonkwo's second wife, gives Ezinma a clay pot with burning leaves inside to carry to Nwoye's mother's hut.
(c) Ekwefi, Okonkwo's second wife, puts live coals into a piece of broken pot and Ezinma carries it to Nwoye's mother.
(d) Ezinma carries a flaming stick across the compound to Nwoye's mother's hut.

3. What is the name of the boy who wins the wrestling match in the fifteen- to sixteen-year-old age group with a lightning fast move that was never seen before?
(a) Maduka
(b) Ikemefuna
(c) Obierika
(d) Nwoye

4. Why is the big, ancient silk-cotton tree in the playground considered sacred?
(a) The tree holds all the spirits of the men who died in wars since the beginning of time.
(b) The tree holds the spirits of all the ancestors of the clan.
(c) The tree is believed to have been the first tree in existence.
(d) The spirits of good children waiting to be born live in the tree.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Okonkwo react to the disastrous growing season that destroy all his yams and the yams of his people?

2. When Okonkwo was a boy, his father, Unoka, consults Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills, about why his crops always fail.. What reply did the Oracle give?

3. Who is the powerful orator that informs the ten thousand men of the emergency facing the nine villages of Umuofia?

4. What is the significance of the beating of drums in the village playground, the ilo, where all the great ceremonies and dances of the village take place?

5. The first day of the new year is celebrated with feasting and fellowship. What takes place on the second day of the new year?

(see the answer key)

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