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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Okonkwo bring with him to share with the wealthy Nwakibie and his family before asking for yam seeds and share cropping privileges?
(a) A bamboo basket and a goatflask.
(b) Campfire wood, and a pot of soup.
(c) Palm-wine, a cock, kola nut, and alligator pepper.
(d) Goat's milk and eggs.

2. While talking with Okoye about the war, Unkona changes the subject to which topic?
(a) Music
(b) Ancestral feasts
(c) Farming
(d) Heavy rains

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

4. Why does Okoye need to collect a past debt from Unkona?
(a) To buy yams for his three wives.
(b) Okoye needs money to help him overcome his failures.
(c) To help pay for the expensive Idemili title ceremony.
(d) To buy a new ogene, the musical instrument Okoye played.

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

6. Who is the first man Okonkwo works for as a share-cropper ?
(a) Ogbuefi Udo
(b) Agbala
(c) Nwakibie
(d) Okoye

7. What does every man and his family do after the Week of Peace?
(a) Cuts bush to make new farms, burns the bush and flies kites over the burning fields.
(b) Plays flutes, dances and sings before planting the crops.
(c) Gathers in the marketplace to visit with neighbors.
(d) Has a feast to celebrate with each other.

8. Okonkwo is very prosperous, owning a large compound with many huts, and an abundance of food. Ikemefuna is given to Okonkwo to live with him until the clan decides Ikemefuna's fate. How does Ikemefuna react to living with Okonkwo?
(a) He hopes to learn how to become a great farmer and warrior from Okonkwo.
(b) He is afraid and does not understand the circumstances.
(c) He is pleased to be living with such a powerful, wealthy man.
(d) He is thankful that he will never be hungry living with Okonkwo, his three wives, and eight children.

9. What is used to inform all the men of the Umuofia to meet in the market place the following morning?
(a) The beating of drums in the night.
(b) The town crier beating on his hollow, metal ogene.
(c) A group of armed warriors.
(d) A choir of people singing the message.

10. What does the law state in Umuofia if a woman runs away from her husband?
(a) She must be left in the forest to die.
(b) She is to be killed and left unburied for the vultures and wild animals.
(c) Her bride-price must be returned to the husband.
(d) Her husband is allowed to go get her, dragging her back home by the hair.

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

12. What are the traditional events when night falls and it is time to end Obierika's daughter's uri?
(a) The elders sit in a circle while singers sing each man's praise. Then the guest's rise to go and the bride is to leave with them for seven weeks.
(b) The singers sing a song of praise to Obierika for such a wonderful celebration.
(c) The women gather all the pots, filling them with leftover food and give each guest a pot to take home.
(d) The leftover wine is divided into flasks for the guests to take home.

13. One night, the storytelling of Okonkwo 's wives and children stops because the priestess, Chielo is shouting in a high-pitched voice. What does she tell Okonkwo?
(a) That Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves wants to see Ezinma
(b) That Agbala wants to see all Okonkwo's wives
(c) That Agbala is putting a curse on Okonkwo's house
(d) That Agbala needs to talk to Okonkwo

14. What does Okonkwo bring back from the bush while Ezinma lays sick in Ekwefi's hut?
(a) Three small birds to offer as sacrifice to the gods, so Ezinma will get well.
(b) Bananas to mix with palm oil, forming a paste which Ezinma can eat easily. This will help keep up her strength.
(c) A bundle of medicinal plants, grasses, leaves, roots and barks.
(d) Soil from the bush to mix with water and form into mud which can be rubbed on Ezinma's body to bring down the fever.

15. Ezinma tells her mother, Ekwefi, that her upper eyelid is twitching. What does Ekwefi tell Ezinma the significance of the twitch is?
(a) It means the rains will come early this year.
(b) It means Ezinma is going to cry.
(c) It means Ezinma will see something.
(d) It means Ezinma will have many children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Unkona change the subject to music when he and Oybe are discussing the impending war with the village of Mbaino?

2. Why does Nwakibie trust Okonkwo to farm his yam seeds?

3. How is the weather during the first growing season that Okonkwo starts share-cropping for Nwakibie?

4. What is the shameful death Unoka endures?

5. How does Nwoye's mother treat Ikemenfuna?

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