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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) Uchendu
(b) Nwoye
(c) Obierika
(d) Okonkwo

3. What is the emergency that the great orator announces at the meeting in the marketplace?
(a) The wife of Ogbuefi Udo is murdered in Mbaino when she goes to market.
(b) The warriors of Mbaino raid one of the villages of Umuofia.
(c) The yam harvest of one of the village celebrities is stolen from his barn.
(d) The powerful medicine woman of Umuofia dies during the night.

4. Why do the elders fear for the young people of the village?
(a) They are unwilling to hunt.
(b) They do not understand the bond of kinship.
(c) They are poor farmers.
(d) They follow the old ways instead of the new religion.

5. What is the other thing that the white man brought to Umuofia besides religion?
(a) Wives for the clan
(b) Government
(c) Disease
(d) Sheep

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is Ikemenfuna in Okonkwo's care?

2. Why does Okonkwo beat his second wife, Ojiugo, during the sacred Week of Peace?

3. During the rainy season, how do the people of the village pass the time?

4. What is a man who holds the ozo title forbidden to do?

5. What does Okonkwo hope his sons will be initiated into when his family returns from exile?

(see the answer key)

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