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Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the people of Umuofia observe the Week of Peace?
(a) It is a week of happy celebration, dancing, and feasting with everyone in the village. It creates a peaceful, cooperative atmosphere that is supposed to last throughout the year.
(b) It is a time to set aside differences with families and neighbors, forgiving them for past offenses.
(c) Their forefather's ordained that before they planted any crops, they have to observe a week where it is forbidden to say a harsh word to a neighbor. This honors the god of the earth, so that the crops will grow.
(d) It is a time for families to develop bonds of love and understanding, making their relationships strong.

2. 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 tells Okoye that he would be paid before anyone else.
(c) He bursts out laughing.
(d) He offers kola nuts as repayment instead of money.

3. Okonkwo is sitting in his obi with Ikemefuna and Nwoye, eating dried locusts when Ogbuefi Ezeudu comes with a message. What is the message?
(a) Umuofia decides to kill Ikemefuna. The Oracle of the Hills pronounces it. Okonkwo is not to take part in the killing because the boy calls him father.
(b) Ikemefuna is to remain in Okonkwo's household as a servant for the rest of his life.
(c) Ikemefuna is to be given all the rights of an adopted son to Okonkwo.
(d) Nwoye and Ikemefuna are to be declared by Umuofia as brothers for life.

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

5. Why do all the women abandon preparing the food for the uri and rush off to the Obierika's crop field?
(a) A neighbor's child went to the field and started picking the crops.
(b) There is a cow loose in the field eating the crops and the women have to catch it.
(c) The locusts landed on the crops and have to be brushed off the leaves.
(d) A fire broke out in the field and the women have to stomp it out.

6. Why is Umuofia feared by all its neighbors?
(a) It never tries to find a peaceful settlement before going to war.
(b) It is powerful in war and magic and has a strong war medicine called agadi-nwayi.
(c) The medicine woman curses all its enemies.
(d) Umuofia goes to war whether the case is clear and just or not.

7. 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.

8. How does Ezinma, the daughter of Okonkwo's second wife, bring fire to Nwoye's mother's hut?
(a) Ezinma carries a flaming stick across the compound to Nwoye's mother's hut.
(b) Ekwefi, Okonkwo's second wife, gives Ezinma a clay pot with burning leaves inside to carry to Nwoye's mother's hut.
(c) Ekwefi, Okonkwo's second wife, puts live coals into a piece of broken pot and Ezinma carries it to Nwoye's mother.
(d) Ekwefi, Okonkwo's second wife, makes a torch of banana leaves and palm oil, and gives it to Ezinma to carry to Nwoye's mother.

9. 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.

10. What is the first trial's dispute set before Evil Forest and the egwugwu?
(a) The case of a man being murdered and left by the side of the road by his brother.
(b) The case of a mother beating her child to death.
(c) The case of Mgbafo running away from her husband, Uzowulu, because he beat her and caused her to miscarry. Mgbafo's relatives refuse to give him back the bride-price because he beats her.
(d) The case of one man stealing yams from the barn of another.

11. The Ibo people consider conversation to be very important. What form of conversation do they regard the most highly?
(a) Orations
(b) Rhyming
(c) Sarcasm
(d) Proverbs

12. How does Nwoye's mother treat Ikemenfuna?
(a) She is very kind to him and treats him like one of her own children.
(b) She ignores him, resenting that he is someone else's child.
(c) She makes him work like a slave.
(d) She mistreats him, letting him go for days with nothing to eat.

13. What does Ekwefi do after Chielo carries Ezinma away on her back?
(a) She screams at Okonkwo to go bring Ezinma back.
(b) She follows Chielo.
(c) She runs to the other wives for solace.
(d) She runs into her hut in despair.

14. After speaking with the elders of nine villages, what does Okonkwo tell Ikemefuna about what is going to happen to him?
(a) That he is being killed.
(b) That he is going home.
(c) That he is being exiled.
(d) That he is free to go.

15. What drives Okonkwo into a rage on the first day of the festival, leading him to beat his second wife, Ekwefi, and almost kill her with a gun?
(a) She burns the vegetable soup she is preparing for the festival.
(b) Okonkwo is angry because his second wife has not scrubbed the walls of her hut with red earth, and has neglected the rituals of the people.
(c) Okonkwo finds that his second wife has not prepared her children in the traditional fashion of the clan for the festival.
(d) He believes his wife killed a banana tree in the compound, even though it is still alive. She also comments on his inability to shoot well.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to twins born in Umuofia?

2. Obierika's daughter, Akueke, is sixteen, just the right age for marrying. How does her suitor and his relatives determine if she is ripe for marriage?

3. Who are the two groups of people who stand facing the elders at the ceremonial trial?

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

5. How many men are in each of the two teams of wrestlers who face each other in the wrestling ring?

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