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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does eighteen-year-old, Okonkwo, bring honor to his village?
(a) He plays his flute in the village after the harvest.
(b) He has a barn full of yams.
(c) He has no patience with unsuccessful men.
(d) He throws the great wrestler, Amalinze the Cat.

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

3. What are the crops that are considered women's crops by the people of Umuofia?
(a) Yams, kola nuts, greens
(b) Palms, bitter-leaf, foo foo
(c) Coco-yams, beans, cassava
(d) Gourds, bananas, oil bean

4. What does every man and his family do after the Week of Peace?
(a) Cuts bush to make new farms, burns the bush and flies kites over the burning fields.
(b) Gathers in the marketplace to visit with neighbors.
(c) Plays flutes, dances and sings before planting the crops.
(d) Has a feast to celebrate with each other.

5. Why is Umuofia feared by all its neighbors?
(a) It never tries to find a peaceful settlement before going to war.
(b) The medicine woman curses all its enemies.
(c) It is powerful in war and magic and has a strong war medicine called agadi-nwayi.
(d) Umuofia goes to war whether the case is clear and just or not.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the weather during the first growing season that Okonkwo starts share-cropping for Nwakibie?

2. During the rainy season, how do the people of the village pass the time?

3. Who is the powerful orator that informs the ten thousand men of the emergency facing the nine villages of Umuofia?

4. The Ibo people consider conversation to be very important. What form of conversation do they regard the most highly?

5. Under what circumstances will the people of Umuofia consult Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves?

(see the answer key)

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