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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Okonkwo vow to do after being released from the white man's prison?
(a) He vows to move away from Umuofia.
(b) He vows never to be a source of trouble again.
(c) He swears vengeance.
(d) He vows to convert to Christianity.

2. Where does Okonkwo bring his family after being banished from his village?
(a) To an enemy village asking to be accepted
(b) To wander the forests and live off the land
(c) To live in a cave in the hills
(d) To his mother's kinsmen in Mbanta

3. What news does Obierika bring to Okonkwo and Uchendu about the Abame clan?
(a) The clan befriended the white men who arrived and now were affluent.
(b) The clan gave five of their daughters to the white men who came to the village.
(c) The clan has been wiped out by white men who surrounded the market and shot everyone.
(d) The clan offered the white men yam seeds, so they could build their own farms.

4. What is Okonkwo afraid will happen to his male children after he dies?
(a) They will never go back to their homeland again.
(b) They will be killed by neighboring enemies.
(c) They will forget the lessons Okonkwo taught them.
(d) They will follow in Nwoye's footsteps and abandon the gods of their ancestors.

5. What is Nwoye's name changed to after he joins the Christians?
(a) Thomas
(b) Isaac
(c) James
(d) Luke

6. What does Okonkwo send to Obierika as he enters his final year of exile?
(a) Four hundred yam seeds to sow in Okonkwo's old field, so he and his family will have food when they returned from exile
(b) Money to build a obi for Okonkwo for when he and his family return
(c) bag of cowries to repay Obierika for the money he gave him through the years
(d) Money to build two huts on Okonkwo's old compound where he and his family will live until he builds more

7. What is the tragedy that takes place during the final burial rites for Ezeudu while the cannon is shot and guns fired?
(a) Ezeudu's sixteen-year-old son is killed when Okonkwo's gun explodes.
(b) Ezeudu's sixteen-year-old son is shot in the arm.
(c) Ezeudu's wife stabs herself.
(d) Another elder of the clan dies in all the excitement.

8. What happens in Umuofia the next time Obierika comes to visit Okonkwo, two years later?
(a) The white men wipe out another clan of Umuofia.
(b) The entire village coverts to the white man's religion.
(c) The missionaries come, building a church and send evangalists to other towns and villages.
(d) More white men come, and the clan kills them.

9. Why does Obierika tell Okonkwo that it is too late to fight the white man and drive him from the land?
(a) Because their own men and sons have joined the white man's religion and government.
(b) The white men are more courageous than the men of Umuofia.
(c) The white men have powerful spirits who protected them.
(d) There are too many white men.

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

11. How are the six leaders of Umuofia treated while in captivity?
(a) They are whipped every day.
(b) They are treated with kindness and respect.
(c) Their heads are shaved. They are given nothing to eat or drink for three days, and are not allowed to go out and relieve themselves.
(d) They are given anything they asked for.

12. Who is called the Crystal of Beauty in Mbanta, growing into a healthy, buoyant young woman?
(a) Chielo
(b) Ezinma
(c) Ezigbo
(d) Obiageli

13. What does the District Commissioner do three days after the destruction of the church?
(a) He exiles the six leaders of Umuofia.
(b) He has the six leaders of Umuofia killed.
(c) He forgives the six leaders of Umuofia and tells them to go on their way.
(d) He speaks to Mr. Smith and calls a meeting with the six leaders of Umuofia.

14. Who says that the Abame were fools and had been warned of danger, and that they should have brought guns and machetes with them to the market?
(a) Uchendu
(b) Obierika
(c) Okonkwo
(d) Nwoye

15. Why does Uchendu say, "Never kill a man who says nothing" when Obierika tells them about the white man the Abame killed?
(a) He may hold secrets you need to learn.
(b) The white man did not said anything to the Abame and according to Uchendu, silence is ominous.
(c) Because he did not defended himself and may be innocent.
(d) He may not be able to speak your language.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first thing Mr. Kiaga orders the outcasts to do if they want to remain in the new religion?

2. What does Okonkwo do when the court messengers come to the meeting, telling the clan to stop?

3. Why does Obierika go to visit Okonkwo a second time, two years after the first?

4. What is Okonkwo's punishment for killing Ezeudu's son?

5. How does Mr. Brown encourage the people to attend school?

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