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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Anasi is Nwakibie's first wife, which makes her the ruler over the other wives of Nwakibie. She is the only wife who can wear her husband's titles. Where are the titles worn on Anasi?
(a) Tattooed on her upper arm.
(b) On an anklet.
(c) On a necklace.
(d) In a hair piece.

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

3. How are the children of the village prepared for the Feast of the New Yam?
(a) Their heads are shaved in beautiful patterns.
(b) Their entire bodies are painted with cam wood and no clothing is worn to the festival.
(c) They are washed in the riverbed three times the day before the festival, and then dressed in simple robes.
(d) Their bodies are rubbed with palm oil, and their hair is decorated with kola nut shells.

4. 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) Drowning in his own vomit after too much palm-wine.
(c) Beheading because of his many unpaid debts.
(d) Starvation due to his many failed crops.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nwoye's mother treat Ikemenfuna?

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

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

4. 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?

5. How does Ikemenfuna feel after three weeks of illness?

(see the answer key)

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