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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Anasi is Nwakibie's first wife, which makes her the ruler over the other wives of Nwakibie. She is the only wife who can wear her husband's titles. Where are the titles worn on Anasi?
(a) On an anklet.
(b) On a necklace.
(c) In a hair piece.
(d) Tattooed on her upper arm.

2. Why do the people of Umuofia observe the Week of Peace?
(a) It is a time for families to develop bonds of love and understanding, making their relationships strong.
(b) It is a time to set aside differences with families and neighbors, forgiving them for past offenses.
(c) 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.
(d) 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.

3. Where does Obierika send one of his relatives to get a fat goat to give to his in-laws during the uri?
(a) The wonderful market in Umuike
(b) The goat farm in the village
(c) To a neighboring goat herder known for his fat goats
(d) To the hills where wild goats roam free

4. What is the name all children of the clan except Ezinma call their mothers?
(a) Efulefu
(b) Jifida
(c) Nne
(d) Obi

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Okonkwo was a boy, his father, Unoka, consults Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills, about why his crops always fail.. What reply did the Oracle give?

3. Ezinma offers to bring Okonkwo's chair to the wrestling match for him. Why did he refuse his daughter's offer?

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

5. Okonkwo does not fear war. In the last war he fought, he brought home a souvenir which he drank palm-wine out of. What is this souvenir?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why don't the people want an even wrestling match, ending in a tie?

2. Determine the point of view of Mbaino with regard to settling the dispute with Umuofia over the murder of Ezeugo.

3. Who do you think benefits from the judgment of the egwuwu in the trial of Uzowulu and his wife and family and why?

4. Do you agree with Okonkwo when he gives the fatal blow to Ikemefuna with his machete?

5. How would you justify Okonkwo's harsh treatment of his family and his uncontrollable temper?

6. Okonkwo's father dies in debt, with no titles to his name. Relate why Okonkwo does not have to worry that his father's reputation will be held against him.

7. Do you think Okonkwo is justified in reaction when he thinks his second wife, Ekwefi, killed a banana tree during the New Yam Festival? Explain.

8. Do you think Okonkwo is justified in being ashamed of his father? Explain why.

9. Why do you think so many people in Umuofia gather with excitement to watch the wrestling matches?

10. What is the tradition the in-laws must do for the uri?

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