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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long is Ikemenfuna in Okonkwo's care?
(a) Three years
(b) Twelve years
(c) Two days
(d) Three months

2. When is the only time that Unkona is not haggard and mournful?
(a) When drinking and playing his flute.
(b) When providing food for his wife and children.
(c) After paying off his debts.
(d) When fighting for his village against the village of Mbaino.

3. While talking with Okoye about the war, Unkona changes the subject to which topic?
(a) Ancestral feasts
(b) Farming
(c) Heavy rains
(d) Music

4. Where does the powerful Oracle of the Hills, Agbala, live?
(a) In a large, handsomely endowed compound in the hills filled with the gifts from those asking for a consultation.
(b) Through a round hole in the side of the hill leading to a dimly lit cave.
(c) In the treetops with all the climbing creatures of Umuofia.
(d) Deep underground with the creatures of the soil, beneath the hills and all things that live above the ground.

5. How does Okonkwo react to the disastrous growing season that destroy all his yams and the yams of his people?
(a) He cries and sinks into despair.
(b) He feels he can survive anything, since he has survived this disastrous year.
(c) His heart is broken from the loss of his crop, leaving him depressed and suicidal.
(d) He gives up being a farmer, and begins looking for a new trade.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Okoye need to collect a past debt from Unkona?

2. What are the things that Okonkwo fears most?

3. Why does Okonkwo beat his second wife, Ojiugo, during the sacred Week of Peace?

4. When Okonkwo is angry and cannot speak because of his stutter, how does he get his point across?

5. Why is Okonkwo's twelve-year-old son, Nwoye, causing him great anxiety?

(see the answer key)

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