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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Okonkwo of Umuofia is the emissary of war to Mbaino. What does Mbaino give him as an offering for the murder of the woman from Umuofia?
(a) A fifteen-year-old boy named Ikemefuna and a young virgin to replace the murdered woman.
(b) A large monetary payment for the people of Umofia.
(c) The wife of the murderer.
(d) One of Mbaino's most powerful warriors.

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

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

5. 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) 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.
(d) Bring a she-goat, one hen, a length of cloth, and a hundred cowries to the shrine of Ani.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Okonkwo insult Osugo at a meeting by calling him a woman?

2. Why does Unkona's neighbor, Okoye, visit him?

3. What does Okonkwo bring with him to share with the wealthy Nwakibie and his family before asking for yam seeds and share cropping privileges?

4. Anasi is Nwakibie's first wife, which makes her the ruler over the other wives of Nwakibie. She is the only wife who can wear her husband's titles. Where are the titles worn on Anasi?

5. Who is Okonkwo's father?

(see the answer key)

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