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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Okonkwo is sitting in his obi with Ikemefuna and Nwoye, eating dried locusts when Ogbuefi Ezeudu comes with a message. What is the message?
(a) Ikemefuna is to remain in Okonkwo's household as a servant for the rest of his life.
(b) Ikemefuna is to be given all the rights of an adopted son to Okonkwo.
(c) Umuofia decides to kill Ikemefuna. The Oracle of the Hills pronounces it. Okonkwo is not to take part in the killing because the boy calls him father.
(d) Nwoye and Ikemefuna are to be declared by Umuofia as brothers for life.

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

3. Where does the powerful Oracle of the Hills, Agbala, live?
(a) In the treetops with all the climbing creatures of Umuofia.
(b) In a large, handsomely endowed compound in the hills filled with the gifts from those asking for a consultation.
(c) Through a round hole in the side of the hill leading to a dimly lit cave.
(d) Deep underground with the creatures of the soil, beneath the hills and all things that live above the ground.

4. Why does Okonkwo worry about his son, Nwoye?
(a) He thinks his son is too aggressive, which might lead him into danger.
(b) He thinks his son will not become a musician like he wants him to.
(c) He thinks his son is too boastful, which may turn others against him.
(d) Okonkwo thinks his son is too much like his mother and weak like his grandfather.

5. The first day of the new year is celebrated with feasting and fellowship. What takes place on the second day of the new year?
(a) The great wrestling match between Okonkwo's village and their neighbors.
(b) A play enacting the planting of yams put on by the children of all the villages in Umuofia.
(c) A gathering in the marketplace for the preparation of the new yams for planting.
(d) The gathering of all the village musicians for singing and dancing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Okonkwo react to the disastrous growing season that destroy all his yams and the yams of his people?

2. Why doesn't Okonkwo have any patience with his father?

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?

4. Ezinma tells her mother, Ekwefi, that her upper eyelid is twitching. What does Ekwefi tell Ezinma the significance of the twitch is?

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

(see the answer key)

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