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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.
Multiple Choice Questions
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) Only grown women carry their husband's chairs.
(c) Men prefer to stand during the wrestling match.
(d) He will be busy with preparing the wrestlers for the match and wouldn't need the chair.
2. Where does the powerful Oracle of the Hills, Agbala, live?
(a) In a large, handsomely endowed compound in the hills filled with the gifts from those asking for a consultation.
(b) Through a round hole in the side of the hill leading to a dimly lit cave.
(c) In the treetops with all the climbing creatures of Umuofia.
(d) Deep underground with the creatures of the soil, beneath the hills and all things that live above the ground.
3. What does Obierika bring for Okonkwo two years after Okonkwo had been exiled?
(a) Yam seeds
(b) Bags full of cowries
(c) Woven baskets of yams
(d) Kola nuts and palm-wine
4. Obierika's daughter, Akueke, is sixteen, just the right age for marrying. How does her suitor and his relatives determine if she is ripe for marriage?
(a) They have her stand before them and recite a marriage poem while dressed in flowing robes.
(b) They study her body, which is decorated and painted in the traditional way: cam oil, black patterns on the skin, black necklace, red and yellow bangles, and waist beads.
(c) They feel how silky her hair is, and pinch her upper arms for plumpness.
(d) They observe how much she eats of the food that is set out before her, and how delicately she chews her food.
5. What is Okonkwo afraid will happen to his male children after he dies?
(a) They will forget the lessons Okonkwo taught them.
(b) They will be killed by neighboring enemies.
(c) They will never go back to their homeland again.
(d) They will follow in Nwoye's footsteps and abandon the gods of their ancestors.
Short Answer Questions
1. Okonkwo's friend, Obierika, is celebrating his daughter's uri. Why does this day put the entire neighborhood into a festive air?
2. While talking with Okoye about the war, Unkona changes the subject to which topic?
3. What do the people of Umuofia fear in the night?
4. What is the name of the first woman to join the Christian missionaries?
5. Who says that the Abame were fools and had been warned of danger, and that they should have brought guns and machetes with them to the market?
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