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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 the priestess do when she brings Ezinma out of Agbala's cave?
(a) She comes out of the cave and tells Okonkwo and Ekwefi that Agbala wants them to leave, or Ezinma will be sacrificed.
(b) She comes out of the cave alone, telling Okonkwo and Ekwefi that Ezinma has to remain in the cave for two days and nights.
(c) She doesn't say a word to Okonkwo or Ekwefi, but carries Ezinma back to Okonkwo's compound and places Ezinma in bed.
(d) She comes out of the cave, giving Okonkwo and Ekwefi a lock of Ezinma's hair. She tells them to bury it in the yam field.
2. How is the weather during the first growing season that Okonkwo starts share-cropping for Nwakibie?
(a) The beginning of the season is poor weather for growing yams, but the second planting of the season grows huge yams, sweet and plump.
(b) The best growing weather ever: yams flourish with the nightly rains and sunny days.
(c) Some good days, and some bad: the yams grow, but not to their potential. Some days were too hot and some rains too severe.
(d) The worst in memory: late rains and scorching sun kill the yams, then torrential downpours wash the seeds away.
3. 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) Nwoye and Ikemefuna are to be declared by Umuofia as brothers for life.
(d) 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.
4. What does Okonkwo bring with him to share with the wealthy Nwakibie and his family before asking for yam seeds and share cropping privileges?
(a) Campfire wood, and a pot of soup.
(b) Palm-wine, a cock, kola nut, and alligator pepper.
(c) Goat's milk and eggs.
(d) A bamboo basket and a goatflask.
5. During the rainy season, how do the people of the village pass the time?
(a) In each hut, children sit by their mother's cooking fire and tell stories, or sit with their father, roasting and eating maize.
(b) They spend many hours praying to the gods for a bountiful harvest.
(c) They spent time in the hut, listening to flute music, weaving baskets, and sleeping.
(d) They prepare yam seeds for next year's fields.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Okonkwo afraid will happen to his male children after he dies?
2. Which of the spectators of the wrestling match are allowed to sit around the huge circle of the wrestling ring?
3. What is the name of the first woman to join the Christian missionaries?
4. What does the Abame clan do to the first white man that comes to their village?
5. Okonkwo's friend, Obierika, is celebrating his daughter's uri. Why does this day put the entire neighborhood into a festive air?
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