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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the rulers and elders of Mbanta decide to do about the Christians after one of the converts kills the Sacred Python?
(a) Ostracize the Christians
(b) Develop a plan to kill all the Christians
(c) Bring the head of Mr. Kiaga back to the village marketplace
(d) Drive the Christians out of the village

2. Ezinma offers to bring Okonkwo's chair to the wrestling match for him. Why did he refuse his daughter's offer?
(a) Men prefer to stand during the wrestling match.
(b) Only grown women carry their husband's chairs.
(c) He will be busy with preparing the wrestlers for the match and wouldn't need the chair.
(d) Carrying the chair is a boy's job.

3. When is the only time that Unkona is not haggard and mournful?
(a) When fighting for his village against the village of Mbaino.
(b) When drinking and playing his flute.
(c) After paying off his debts.
(d) When providing food for his wife and children.

4. Why does Okonkwo beat his second wife, Ojiugo, during the sacred Week of Peace?
(a) She disagrees with what Okonkwo has to say.
(b) She is at a friend's house and does not prepare Okonkwo's afternoon meal.
(c) She cooks a meal that Okonkwo does not like.
(d) She is caught with another man.

5. What does Okonkwo feel the greatest obstacle to going to war against the white man is?
(a) The cowardice of Egonwanne
(b) The clan is not prepared for war
(c) His own cowardice
(d) The fear of the clan

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the six leaders of Umuofia during their meeting with the District Commissioner?

2. What does Okonkwo bring back from the bush while Ezinma lays sick in Ekwefi's hut?

3. As the drums sound and the flutes blast, what appears out of the egwugwu house?

4. How does Okonkwo react to the disastrous growing season that destroy all his yams and the yams of his people?

5. Which of the spectators of the wrestling match are allowed to sit around the huge circle of the wrestling ring?

(see the answer key)

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