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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ultimatum is dispatched to Mbaino as a consequence of the murder of the woman from Umuofia?
(a) Choose between war or the offer of a young man and a virgin from Mbaino.
(b) Delivery to Umuofia a year's worth of the yam harvest as a peace offering.
(c) The sacrificial offering of one of the daughters of Mbaino.
(d) Deliver the head of the murderer to the people of Umuofia.

2. What is the shameful death Unoka endures?
(a) Starvation due to his many failed crops.
(b) Dying of the abomination of swollen stomach and limbs, never to be buried in the earth.
(c) Drowning in his own vomit after too much palm-wine.
(d) Beheading because of his many unpaid debts.

3. 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) A bundle of medicinal plants, grasses, leaves, roots and barks.
(c) Bananas to mix with palm oil, forming a paste which Ezinma can eat easily. This will help keep up her strength.
(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.

4. How does Okonkwo react to the disastrous growing season that destroy all his yams and the yams of his people?
(a) He gives up being a farmer, and begins looking for a new trade.
(b) His heart is broken from the loss of his crop, leaving him depressed and suicidal.
(c) He feels he can survive anything, since he has survived this disastrous year.
(d) He cries and sinks into despair.

5. The first day of the new year is celebrated with feasting and fellowship. What takes place on the second day of the new year?
(a) The great wrestling match between Okonkwo's village and their neighbors.
(b) A gathering in the marketplace for the preparation of the new yams for planting.
(c) A play enacting the planting of yams put on by the children of all the villages in Umuofia.
(d) The gathering of all the village musicians for singing and dancing.

6. 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) Nwoye
(b) Obierika
(c) Ikemefuna
(d) Maduka

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

8. How many men are in each of the two teams of wrestlers who face each other in the wrestling ring?
(a) Nine men on each side
(b) Five men on each side
(c) Six men on each side
(d) Twelve men on each side

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

10. What is the festival that gives thanks to Ani, the earth goddess and source of fertility?
(a) The Yam Harvest Festival
(b) The Mother of the Earth Festival
(c) The Seeds of Life Festival
(d) The New Yam Festival

11. What does the priestess do when she brings Ezinma out of Agbala's cave?
(a) She comes out of the cave and tells Okonkwo and Ekwefi that Agbala wants them to leave, or Ezinma will be sacrificed.
(b) She comes out of the cave alone, telling Okonkwo and Ekwefi that Ezinma has to remain in the cave for two days and nights.
(c) She doesn't say a word to Okonkwo or Ekwefi, but carries Ezinma back to Okonkwo's compound and places Ezinma in bed.
(d) She comes out of the cave, giving Okonkwo and Ekwefi a lock of Ezinma's hair. She tells them to bury it in the yam field.

12. Ekwefi awakes Okonkwo early in the morning pounding on his door. What is she anxious to tell him?
(a) The yam fields are on fire.
(b) Nwoye's mother is sick and calling for him.
(c) Their daughter, Ezinma is sick and dying.
(d) All the men of the village are to meet in the marketplace immediately.

13. As Ekwefi and Okonkwo wait outside of Agbala's cave for Ezinma's return, what does Ekwefi think about?
(a) She thinks about when she and Okonkwo were young, and how she left her first husband to be with Okonkwo.
(b) She thinks about what must be happening to Ezinma in the cave.
(c) She thinks she will take Ezinma and move away from the village.
(d) She thinks about how she and Okonkwo can defeat Agbala.

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

15. Who is the powerful orator that informs the ten thousand men of the emergency facing the nine villages of Umuofia?
(a) Ogbuefi Udo
(b) Nwoye
(c) Okoye
(d) Ogbuefi Ezeugo

Short Answer Questions

1. What descends on the land of Okonkwo, darkens the sky, settles on the rooftops, and breaks mighty tree branches under them?

2. Where does the powerful Oracle of the Hills, Agbala, live?

3. Nine out of ten of Ekwefi's children die in infancy. After the second death, Okonkwo goes to the medicine man to find out why this is happening. What explanation does the diviner give?

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

5. How does Ekwefi make the medicine she hopes would cure Ezinma?

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