1. Ezinma offers to bring Okonkwo's chair to the wrestling match for him. Why did he refuse his daughter's offer?
(a) Carrying the chair is a boy's job.
(b) Men prefer to stand during the wrestling match.
(c) Only grown women carry their husband's chairs.
(d) He will be busy with preparing the wrestlers for the match and wouldn't need the chair.

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 is going to cry.
(d) It means Ezinma will see something.

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?
(a) Palm-wine, a cock, kola nut, and alligator pepper.
(b) Campfire wood, and a pot of soup.
(c) A bamboo basket and a goatflask.
(d) Goat's milk and eggs.

4. What is the significance of the beating of drums in the village playground, the ilo, where all the great ceremonies and dances of the village take place?
(a) The drums beat as each wrestler is thrown to the ground.
(b) The beating drums announce that there is a winner in the wrestling match.
(c) The beating of the drums means that the wrestling match will begin at noon.
(d) The drums play the wrestling dance in preparation for the wrestling match at sundown.

5. Which of the spectators of the wrestling match are allowed to sit around the huge circle of the wrestling ring?
(a) Women and children.
(b) The wrestlers waiting for their matches.
(c) Pregnant women.
(d) The elders, grandees, a few early comers in the stands, and the drummers.