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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the emergency that the great orator announces at the meeting in the marketplace?
(a) The warriors of Mbaino raid one of the villages of Umuofia.
(b) The yam harvest of one of the village celebrities is stolen from his barn.
(c) The wife of Ogbuefi Udo is murdered in Mbaino when she goes to market.
(d) The powerful medicine woman of Umuofia dies during the night.

2. What is the name of the boy who wins the wrestling match in the fifteen- to sixteen-year-old age group with a lightning fast move that was never seen before?
(a) Ikemefuna
(b) Maduka
(c) Obierika
(d) Nwoye

3. Which men fight in the final wrestling match of the day?
(a) Men elected in each of the nine villages.
(b) The wealthiest men from each of the nine villages.
(c) The leaders of the teams are made up of the best wrestlers in the nine villages.
(d) Men chosen by the elders from each of the nine villages.

4. While talking with Okoye about the war, Unkona changes the subject to which topic?
(a) Heavy rains
(b) Music
(c) Ancestral feasts
(d) Farming

5. Who is the priestess of Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves, in real life?
(a) Anasi, Okonkwo's first wife
(b) Ekwefi, the second wife of Okonkwo
(c) Noywe's mother
(d) Chielo, a widow with two children

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Okoye need to collect a past debt from Unkona?

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

3. Who is Okonkwo's father?

4. What is the only way a young man can build a barn of his own if his father has no yams?

5. Okonkwo and the men of Umuofia take Ikemefuna deep into the forest and kill him with machetes. Who gives the final thrust of the machete that ends Ikemefuna's life?

(see the answer key)

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