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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the powerful orator that informs the ten thousand men of the emergency facing the nine villages of Umuofia?
(a) Ogbuefi Ezeugo
(b) Nwoye
(c) Okoye
(d) Ogbuefi Udo

3. How does Unoka react when Okoye asks him to repay the two hundred cowries owed to him?
(a) He offers kola nuts as repayment instead of money.
(b) He bursts out laughing.
(c) He promises to repay the money without delay.
(d) He tells Okoye that he would be paid before anyone else.

4. Why does Okonkwo insult Osugo at a meeting by calling him a woman?
(a) Osugo is making womanly hand gestures during the meeting.
(b) Osugo is complaining and whining.
(c) Osugo is talking in a feminine voice.
(d) Okonkwo calls Osugo a woman because Osugo has no titles and contradicted what Okonkwo had been saying.

5. 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?
(a) That Unoka has offended the gods and that is why his crop fail.
(b) That he angers his ancestors and they plague his land.
(c) That Unoka sows his yams on exhausted land rather than making the effort to clear new land.
(d) That he should stay home and offer sacrifices to the gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is captivated by the message of the missionaries?

2. What does Okagbue, the medicine man, dig up from under the orange tree that makes the people of the village believe that Ezinma will live to adulthood?

3. How many pots of wine do Obierika's in-laws brink to his home for the uri?

4. What is Okonkwo's punishment for committing a "nso-ani" during the Week of Peace?

5. What is the significance of the beating of drums in the village playground, the ilo, where all the great ceremonies and dances of the village take place?

(see the answer key)

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