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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the children of the village prepared for the Feast of the New Yam?
(a) Their heads are shaved in beautiful patterns.
(b) Their bodies are rubbed with palm oil, and their hair is decorated with kola nut shells.
(c) They are washed in the riverbed three times the day before the festival, and then dressed in simple robes.
(d) Their entire bodies are painted with cam wood and no clothing is worn to the festival.

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, puts live coals into a piece of broken pot and Ezinma carries it to Nwoye's mother.
(c) Ekwefi, Okonkwo's second wife, gives Ezinma a clay pot with burning leaves inside to carry to Nwoye's mother's hut.
(d) Ezinma carries a flaming stick across the compound to Nwoye's mother's hut.

3. Ezinma tells her mother, Ekwefi, that her upper eyelid is twitching. What does Ekwefi tell Ezinma the significance of the twitch is?
(a) It means the rains will come early this year.
(b) It means Ezinma will see something.
(c) It means Ezinma will have many children.
(d) It means Ezinma is going to cry.

4. Which men fight in the final wrestling match of the day?
(a) Men chosen by the elders from each of the nine villages.
(b) The leaders of the teams are made up of the best wrestlers in the nine villages.
(c) Men elected in each of the nine villages.
(d) The wealthiest men from each of the nine villages.

5. What is the one passion that rules Okonkwo's life?
(a) To hate everything his father loved.
(b) To obtain more wealth than anyone else in Umuofia.
(c) To be affluent in money, wives, and children.
(d) To make sure his barn was always filled with yams.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the priestess of Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves, in real life?

2. Okonkwo is very prosperous, owning a large compound with many huts, and an abundance of food. Ikemefuna is given to Okonkwo to live with him until the clan decides Ikemefuna's fate. How does Ikemefuna react to living with Okonkwo?

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

4. What is the festival that gives thanks to Ani, the earth goddess and source of fertility?

5. Okonkwo is sitting in his obi with Ikemefuna and Nwoye, eating dried locusts when Ogbuefi Ezeudu comes with a message. What is the message?

(see the answer key)

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