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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ekwefi do after Chielo carries Ezinma away on her back?
(a) She follows Chielo.
(b) She runs into her hut in despair.
(c) She runs to the other wives for solace.
(d) She screams at Okonkwo to go bring Ezinma back.

2. What does the law state in Umuofia if a woman runs away from her husband?
(a) She is to be killed and left unburied for the vultures and wild animals.
(b) Her bride-price must be returned to the husband.
(c) She must be left in the forest to die.
(d) Her husband is allowed to go get her, dragging her back home by the hair.

3. Why does Okonkwo beat his second wife, Ojiugo, during the sacred Week of Peace?
(a) She cooks a meal that Okonkwo does not like.
(b) She is at a friend's house and does not prepare Okonkwo's afternoon meal.
(c) She disagrees with what Okonkwo has to say.
(d) She is caught with another man.

4. Who appears in front of Ekwefi as she waits tearfully outside Agbala's cave?
(a) Chielo
(b) Nwoye
(c) Okonkwo
(d) Nwoye's mother

5. How does eighteen-year-old, Okonkwo, bring honor to his village?
(a) He throws the great wrestler, Amalinze the Cat.
(b) He has no patience with unsuccessful men.
(c) He has a barn full of yams.
(d) He plays his flute in the village after the harvest.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What are the traditional events when night falls and it is time to end Obierika's daughter's uri?

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

5. Why do men and women look forward to the Feast of the New Yam?

(see the answer key)

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