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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of clan members join the white man's religion?
(a) The warriors of the clan, hoping the religion would keep them safe
(b) Men with no titles, efulefu, worthless and empty men
(c) The elders of the clan and their families
(d) The women and children of the clan

2. Okonkwo's friend, Obierika, is celebrating his daughter's uri. Why does this day put the entire neighborhood into a festive air?
(a) It is the day when his daughter's suitor brings palm-wine to her parents and her entire group of kinsmen, umunna. Everyone is invited, but the central figures are the bride and her mother.
(b) It is the day his daughter's suitor will pay the bride-price and everyone will celebrate.
(c) It is the day his daughter will practice for the wedding ceremony, followed by a celebration.
(d) It is the day his daughtor's suitor brings the whole neighborhood to see the hut where he and his bride will be living.

3. Who is the powerful orator that informs the ten thousand men of the emergency facing the nine villages of Umuofia?
(a) Okoye
(b) Ogbuefi Udo
(c) Ogbuefi Ezeugo
(d) Nwoye

4. What hopes does Okonkwo have for his son, Nwoye's , future?
(a) He wants Nwoye to be a talented musician, performing at all the festivals in the nine villages.
(b) He wants Nwoye to be a great warrior with many heroic victories to his name.
(c) He wants Nwoye to be prosperous, that he will have enough to feed the ancestors with regular sacrifices, and he will be able to rule his women and children.
(d) He hopes Nwoye would be a fair, just, and wise father and husband, showing kindness and love to his family.

5. Ezinma offers to bring Okonkwo's chair to the wrestling match for him. Why did he refuse his daughter's offer?
(a) Men prefer to stand during the wrestling match.
(b) He will be busy with preparing the wrestlers for the match and wouldn't need the chair.
(c) Only grown women carry their husband's chairs.
(d) Carrying the chair is a boy's job.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ekwefi awakes Okonkwo early in the morning pounding on his door. What is she anxious to tell him?

2. Who is called the Crystal of Beauty in Mbanta, growing into a healthy, buoyant young woman?

3. 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?

4. Why do the people say "Mother is Supreme" when the man is the head of the family and his wives and children are obedient to him?

5. What does the oldest member of the clan say is the reason for gathering for Okonkwo's feast?

(see the answer key)

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