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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Okonkwo serve at the feast for all the umunna, the descendants of Okolo?
(a) Roasted locusts and small wild birds
(b) Yams wrapped in palm leaves and roasted with palm oil
(c) Fish from the stream, and roasted locusts
(d) Three goats, fowls, foo-foo, yam pottage, egusi soup, bitter-leaf soup, palm-wine and kola nuts
2. What is the nickname of kotma, the court messengers who guard the prison which holds people who break the white man's law?
(a) Betrayers of the people
(b) Slime of the earth
(c) Ashy-buttocks
(d) Dead locusts
3. 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) Nwoye
(b) Okonkwo
(c) Obierika
(d) Uchendu
4. What does Nwoye do after his father, Okonkwo, beats him for being with the missionaries?
(a) He swears that he will never go near the missionary church again.
(b) He begs his father to stop beating him.
(c) He screams for his mother's help.
(d) He leaves his family to go the the Christian school in Umuofia.
5. What does Okonkwo do when the court messengers come to the meeting, telling the clan to stop?
(a) He tries to convince the messengers to join the meeting peacefully.
(b) He turns and asks the clan to stop the meeting.
(c) He beheads one of the messengers with his machete.
(d) He leaves the meeting, afraid of being arrested again.
6. 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
7. How are the six leaders of Umuofia treated while in captivity?
(a) They are given anything they asked for.
(b) They are whipped every day.
(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 treated with kindness and respect.
8. What do the rulers and elders of Mbanta decide to do about the Christians after one of the converts kills the Sacred Python?
(a) Drive the Christians out of the village
(b) Ostracize the Christians
(c) Bring the head of Mr. Kiaga back to the village marketplace
(d) Develop a plan to kill all the Christians
9. What type of clan members join the white man's religion?
(a) Men with no titles, efulefu, worthless and empty men
(b) The women and children of the clan
(c) The elders of the clan and their families
(d) The warriors of the clan, hoping the religion would keep them safe
10. Why do the elders fear for the young people of the village?
(a) They are poor farmers.
(b) They do not understand the bond of kinship.
(c) They are unwilling to hunt.
(d) They follow the old ways instead of the new religion.
11. What is the name of the man that the ekwe announces to Umuofia?
(a) Obierika
(b) Uzowulu
(c) Maduka
(d) Ezeudu
12. Why does Obierika go to visit Okonkwo a second time, two years after the first?
(a) To find out why Okonkwo's son, Nwoye, joined the white missionaries.
(b) He misses his good friend, Okonkwo, and thinks he should tell him that missionaries had come.
(c) To bring more cowries and some yam seeds to his friend, Okonkwo
(d) To find out if all is well with Okonkwo and his family.
13. What is the name of the first woman to join the Christian missionaries?
(a) Nwoye's mother
(b) Ezinma
(c) Ekwefi
(d) Nneka
14. What punishment does the District Commissioner give the six leaders of Umuofia?
(a) Destruction of the leader's compounds
(b) Beheading in the public market
(c) Collect two hundred bags of cowries from the people as a fine
(d) Give all the yams in their barns to the commissioner
15. What does Okonkwo mourn when he returns to his clan?
(a) The clan is malnourished and weak.
(b) The clan is poor.
(c) The clan is breaking up and falling apart.
(d) The clan is too aggressive and angry.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the District Commissioner do three days after the destruction of the church?
2. What is the first thing Okonkwo plans to do when he returns to his clan?
3. Who is captivated by the message of the missionaries?
4. What happens in Umuofia the next time Obierika comes to visit Okonkwo, two years later?
5. What does the oldest member of the clan say is the reason for gathering for Okonkwo's feast?
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