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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is used to inform all the men of the Umuofia to meet in the market place the following morning?
(a) A group of armed warriors.
(b) A choir of people singing the message.
(c) The town crier beating on his hollow, metal ogene.
(d) The beating of drums in the night.

2. The punishment for breaking the sacred peace changes through the years. What happened to a man that broke the Week of Peace in the past?
(a) He was exiled from Umuofia, considered to be dead to all the clan.
(b) He was dragged on the ground through the village until dead.
(c) He was hanged in the marketplace for all to see.
(d) He was tied in the village marketplace and each member of the clan spat on him.

3. When Okonkwo was a boy, his father, Unoka, consults Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills, about why his crops always fail.. What reply did the Oracle give?
(a) That he angers his ancestors and they plague his land.
(b) That Unoka has offended the gods and that is why his crop fail.
(c) That Unoka sows his yams on exhausted land rather than making the effort to clear new land.
(d) That he should stay home and offer sacrifices to the gods.

4. Why do men and women look forward to the Feast of the New Yam?
(a) It is a festival of dancing around the new yams of the season and eating the rest of the old yams for the previous year.
(b) It is a feast of yam stew made from all the leftover yams of the past harvest, which is divided among all the people.
(c) It is the beginning of the season of plenty--the new year. It begins with huge quantities of fresh yams, yam foo foo and vegetable soup.
(d) The men and women cook and feed each other the yams from the previous harvest so that no food will be wasted.

5. Obiageli, Nwoye's sister, comes home crying because her water pot is broken. How did her waterpot break?
(a) She was pushed by Nwoye's younger brother and fell with her pot, spilling the water and smashing the pot.
(b) She tripped over a stone in the pathway, and fell with her water pot.
(c) She was showing off, swaying her waist and the pot fell.
(d) She overfilled the pot with water and was unable to carry the weight. The pot tipped and fell.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How do the women of the clan prepare for the Feast of the New Yam?

5. Okonkwo is very prosperous, owning a large compound with many huts, and an abundance of food. Ikemefuna is given to Okonkwo to live with him until the clan decides Ikemefuna's fate. How does Ikemefuna react to living with Okonkwo?

(see the answer key)

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