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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the priestess of Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves, in real life?
(a) Chielo, a widow with two children
(b) Anasi, Okonkwo's first wife
(c) Noywe's mother
(d) Ekwefi, the second wife of Okonkwo

2. Why is Okonkwo's twelve-year-old son, Nwoye, causing him great anxiety?
(a) Okonkwo is jealous of his son's growing strength.
(b) Nwoye complains about having to work in the fields from dawn to dusk.
(c) Okonkwo believes his son to be lazy.
(d) Nwoye is a wild, unruly boy.

3. How is the weather during the first growing season that Okonkwo starts share-cropping for Nwakibie?
(a) Some good days, and some bad: the yams grow, but not to their potential. Some days were too hot and some rains too severe.
(b) The beginning of the season is poor weather for growing yams, but the second planting of the season grows huge yams, sweet and plump.
(c) The worst in memory: late rains and scorching sun kill the yams, then torrential downpours wash the seeds away.
(d) The best growing weather ever: yams flourish with the nightly rains and sunny days.

4. What is Nwoye's name changed to after he joins the Christians?
(a) James
(b) Luke
(c) Isaac
(d) Thomas

5. What does the law state in Umuofia if a woman runs away from her husband?
(a) She must be left in the forest to die.
(b) Her husband is allowed to go get her, dragging her back home by the hair.
(c) Her bride-price must be returned to the husband.
(d) She is to be killed and left unburied for the vultures and wild animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ekwefi make the medicine she hopes would cure Ezinma?

2. Okonkwo's friend, Obierika, is celebrating his daughter's uri. Why does this day put the entire neighborhood into a festive air?

3. What drives Okonkwo into a rage on the first day of the festival, leading him to beat his second wife, Ekwefi, and almost kill her with a gun?

4. What does Okagbue, the medicine man, dig up from under the orange tree that makes the people of the village believe that Ezinma will live to adulthood?

5. What is the emergency that the great orator announces at the meeting in the marketplace?

(see the answer key)

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