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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the decision of the egwugwu after hearing the case for Mgbafo's family against Uzowulu?
(a) The bride-price is not to be paid back to Uzowulu.
(b) The bride-price is to be returned to Uzowulu.
(c) Uzowulu is to bring a pot of wine to Mgbafo's family and beg that his wife be returned to him. Mgbafo's family is to return her to Uzowulu when he brings the wine to them.
(d) Uzowulu is warned never to beat a woman again or he will be mutilated.

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

3. What does Uchendu tell Okonkw his duty was?
(a) Never return to his homeland, but build his future in Mbanta.
(b) To go back to his clan and beg to be forgiven.
(c) Comfort his wives and children and take them back to his fatherland after seven years.
(d) Forget about his past, and denounce his homeland.

4. What is the tragedy that takes place during the final burial rites for Ezeudu while the cannon is shot and guns fired?
(a) Another elder of the clan dies in all the excitement.
(b) Ezeudu's sixteen-year-old son is killed when Okonkwo's gun explodes.
(c) Ezeudu's wife stabs herself.
(d) Ezeudu's sixteen-year-old son is shot in the arm.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the first woman to join the Christian missionaries?

2. What is the nickname of kotma, the court messengers who guard the prison which holds people who break the white man's law?

3. Okonkwo and the men of Umuofia take Ikemefuna deep into the forest and kill him with machetes. Who gives the final thrust of the machete that ends Ikemefuna's life?

4. What is Okonkwo afraid will happen to his male children after he dies?

5. Nine out of ten of Ekwefi's children die in infancy. After the second death, Okonkwo goes to the medicine man to find out why this is happening. What explanation does the diviner give?

(see the answer key)

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