Things Fall Apart Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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Things Fall Apart Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Okonkwo is angry and cannot speak because of his stutter, how does he get his point across?
(a) Uses hand motions to relay his message.
(b) Uses his fists against the person who angers him.
(c) Takes a deep breath and gets control of himself.
(d) Walks away, returning when he is calmer.

2. What is Okonkwo's punishment for committing a "nso-ani" during the Week of Peace?
(a) Go to the shrine of Ani, fast for three days, and beg forgiveness for breaking the sacred peace.
(b) Bring a bamboo basket of yams, a flask of palm-wine and a hen to the shrine of Ani.
(c) Bring a she-goat, one hen, a length of cloth, and a hundred cowries to the shrine of Ani.
(d) Go to the shrine of Ani and confess his disrespectful behavior to the gods of the clan, remaining on his knees throughout a day and night.

3. Why does Okoye need to collect a past debt from Unkona?
(a) To buy yams for his three wives.
(b) Okoye needs money to help him overcome his failures.
(c) To help pay for the expensive Idemili title ceremony.
(d) To buy a new ogene, the musical instrument Okoye played.

4. What is the shameful death Unoka endures?
(a) Beheading because of his many unpaid debts.
(b) Starvation due to his many failed crops.
(c) Dying of the abomination of swollen stomach and limbs, never to be buried in the earth.
(d) Drowning in his own vomit after too much palm-wine.

5. What are the women's duties after the yams are planted?
(a) They plant maize, melons, and beans between the mounds. They also weeded the farm three times per planting season.
(b) They make bamboo woven hats for the farmers working in the hot sun.
(c) They plant kola nuts between the yams, and weed the yams every day.
(d) They make meals for the men working in the fields.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Okonkwo have any patience with his father?

2. When is the only time that Unkona is not haggard and mournful?

3. What are the crops that are considered women's crops by the people of Umuofia?

4. How does Ikemenfuna feel after three weeks of illness?

5. Why does Nwakibie trust Okonkwo to farm his yam seeds?

(see the answer key)

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