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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the six leaders of Umuofia once the fine is paid to the District Commissioner?
(a) They are hanged anyway.
(b) They are imprisoned for life.
(c) They are mutilated and set free.
(d) They are set free.

2. What does Enoch do that is one of the greatest crimes a man can commit during the annual ceremony?
(a) He defies his chi.
(b) He becomes an efulefu.
(c) He beats the wife of another man.
(d) He unmasks an egwugwu in public, killing an ancestral spirit.

3. What is Okonkwo's punishment for killing Ezeudu's son?
(a) All of Okonkwo's sons are to be executed.
(b) One of Okonkwo's sons is to be offered as sacrifice.
(c) He and his wives and children have to flee the land.
(d) Beheading and disgrace.

4. What does the District Commissioner do three days after the destruction of the church?
(a) He exiles the six leaders of Umuofia.
(b) He has the six leaders of Umuofia killed.
(c) He forgives the six leaders of Umuofia and tells them to go on their way.
(d) He speaks to Mr. Smith and calls a meeting with the six leaders of Umuofia.

5. What does Okika suggest they do that their fathers had never done before?
(a) Allow their children to attend the white man's school.
(b) Accept their fate, taking on the white man's ways.
(c) Give up their own religious beliefs and accept Christianity.
(d) Fight against their own brothers who have taken the side of the white man.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Okonkwo going to thank his mother's people for helping him during his seven years in exile?

2. What are the crops that are considered women's crops by the people of Umuofia?

3. The Ibo people consider conversation to be very important. What form of conversation do they regard the most highly?

4. Why doesn't Okonkwo have any patience with his father?

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

(see the answer key)

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