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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ezinma, the daughter of Okonkwo's second wife, bring fire to Nwoye's mother's hut?
(a) Ekwefi, Okonkwo's second wife, gives Ezinma a clay pot with burning leaves inside to carry to Nwoye's mother's hut.
(b) Ekwefi, Okonkwo's second wife, puts live coals into a piece of broken pot and Ezinma carries it to Nwoye's mother.
(c) Ezinma carries a flaming stick across the compound to Nwoye's mother's hut.
(d) Ekwefi, Okonkwo's second wife, makes a torch of banana leaves and palm oil, and gives it to Ezinma to carry to Nwoye's mother.

2. Ezinma tells her mother, Ekwefi, that her upper eyelid is twitching. What does Ekwefi tell Ezinma the significance of the twitch is?
(a) It means Ezinma will have many children.
(b) It means the rains will come early this year.
(c) It means Ezinma will see something.
(d) It means Ezinma is going to cry.

3. What is the custom in the village of Obodoani if a man dies during the Week of Peace?
(a) The man is not buried, but cast into the Evil Forest.
(b) The man is buried as deep as two graves.
(c) The man is buried outside the village.
(d) The man is burned to ashes, instead of buried.

4. Who is Okonkwo's father?
(a) Amalinze
(b) Unoka
(c) Okoye
(d) Ikemefuna

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the festival that gives thanks to Ani, the earth goddess and source of fertility?

2. How does Unoka react when Okoye asks him to repay the two hundred cowries owed to him?

3. What ultimatum is dispatched to Mbaino as a consequence of the murder of the woman from Umuofia?

4. Who is the priestess of Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves, in real life?

5. Why is the big, ancient silk-cotton tree in the playground considered sacred?

(see the answer key)

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