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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the women of the clan prepare for the Feast of the New Yam?
(a) They decorate robes with intricate patterns made of colored beans, plaite each others hair, color their faces with red clay, and make veils to cover their faces during the festival.
(b) They cleanse their bodies, wear a simple robe and sandles, and scrub their faces. They are to go to the festival free of all paint, jewelry, or ornamentation of any kind.
(c) They gather in the marketplace to share all their clothing, jewelry and sandals with one another. They wear each others belongings to prove to the goddess, Ani, that they are worthy people.
(d) They scrub the walls and huts with red earth, draw patterns on them in white, yellow and green, paint themselves with cam wood, and draw black patterns on their stomach and backs.

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

3. Where does the powerful Oracle of the Hills, Agbala, live?
(a) In a large, handsomely endowed compound in the hills filled with the gifts from those asking for a consultation.
(b) Deep underground with the creatures of the soil, beneath the hills and all things that live above the ground.
(c) Through a round hole in the side of the hill leading to a dimly lit cave.
(d) In the treetops with all the climbing creatures of Umuofia.

4. Why does Nwakibie trust Okonkwo to farm his yam seeds?
(a) He figures he can charge Okonkwo for the seeds with interest if the crop failed.
(b) He always believs big, strong men are trustworthy.
(c) He asks other people of the village if Okonkwo can be trusted.
(d) He can tell by looking at Okonkwo that he is a hard worker, unlike many young men of the village.

5. What is the decision of the egwugwu after hearing the case for Mgbafo's family against Uzowulu?
(a) The bride-price is not to be paid back to Uzowulu.
(b) Uzowulu is to bring a pot of wine to Mgbafo's family and beg that his wife be returned to him. Mgbafo's family is to return her to Uzowulu when he brings the wine to them.
(c) The bride-price is to be returned to Uzowulu.
(d) Uzowulu is warned never to beat a woman again or he will be mutilated.

6. Why does Unkona's neighbor, Okoye, visit him?
(a) To pray with Unkona for life, health, and protection from enemies.
(b) To share kola nuts with Unkona.
(c) To collect a two-year-old debt of two hundred cowries.
(d) To talk about music.

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

8. Where does Chielo bring Ezinma?
(a) Deep into the forest
(b) To the yam fields
(c) To where dead children are buried
(d) To the village of Umuachi, then turns around and continues back to the hills of Agbala

9. What are the things that Okonkwo fears most?
(a) The forest and magic.
(b) Failure, weakness, and himself.
(c) Forces of nature.
(d) Evil and capricious gods.

10. How many pots of wine do Obierika's in-laws brink to his home for the uri?
(a) Fifty
(b) Twenty
(c) None
(d) Twenty-five

11. Who are the two groups of people who stand facing the elders at the ceremonial trial?
(a) One group is the twelve-year-old boys from the village. The other group is their fathers.
(b) One group is Mgbafo and her three brothers. The other group is her husband, Uzowulu, and his relatives.
(c) One group is the three oldest men from the village. The other group is their sons.
(d) One group is wrestlers from the nine villages, and the other group is judges.

12. What is the name of the boy who wins the wrestling match in the fifteen- to sixteen-year-old age group with a lightning fast move that was never seen before?
(a) Ikemefuna
(b) Nwoye
(c) Obierika
(d) Maduka

13. How long is Ikemenfuna in Okonkwo's care?
(a) Three months
(b) Three years
(c) Twelve years
(d) Two days

14. What is Okonkwo's punishment for committing a "nso-ani" during the Week of Peace?
(a) Bring a bamboo basket of yams, a flask of palm-wine and a hen to the shrine of Ani.
(b) Go to the shrine of Ani and confess his disrespectful behavior to the gods of the clan, remaining on his knees throughout a day and night.
(c) Bring a she-goat, one hen, a length of cloth, and a hundred cowries to the shrine of Ani.
(d) Go to the shrine of Ani, fast for three days, and beg forgiveness for breaking the sacred peace.

15. Obiageli, Nwoye's sister, comes home crying because her water pot is broken. How did her waterpot break?
(a) She was showing off, swaying her waist and the pot fell.
(b) She was pushed by Nwoye's younger brother and fell with her pot, spilling the water and smashing the pot.
(c) She tripped over a stone in the pathway, and fell with her water pot.
(d) She overfilled the pot with water and was unable to carry the weight. The pot tipped and fell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Okonkwo's twelve-year-old son, Nwoye, causing him great anxiety?

2. When Okonkwo is angry and cannot speak because of his stutter, how does he get his point across?

3. Why does Okonkwo insult Osugo at a meeting by calling him a woman?

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

5. How can an observer tell if a communal ceremony is only for the men of the village?

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