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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. Who is Okonkwo's father?
(a) Ikemefuna
(b) Okoye
(c) Amalinze
(d) Unoka

2. What are the traditional events when night falls and it is time to end Obierika's daughter's uri?
(a) The women gather all the pots, filling them with leftover food and give each guest a pot to take home.
(b) 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.
(c) The leftover wine is divided into flasks for the guests to take home.
(d) The singers sing a song of praise to Obierika for such a wonderful celebration.

3. What is the only way a young man can build a barn of his own if his father has no yams?
(a) Planting coco-yams.
(b) Saving his money to buy seeds.
(c) Going to his mother and his father's wives for help.
(d) Share-cropping.

4. What does Okonkwo bring with him to share with the wealthy Nwakibie and his family before asking for yam seeds and share cropping privileges?
(a) Palm-wine, a cock, kola nut, and alligator pepper.
(b) Goat's milk and eggs.
(c) Campfire wood, and a pot of soup.
(d) A bamboo basket and a goatflask.

5. Okonkwo's friend, Obierika, is celebrating his daughter's uri. Why does this day put the entire neighborhood into a festive air?
(a) It is the day when his daughter's suitor brings palm-wine to her parents and her entire group of kinsmen, umunna. Everyone is invited, but the central figures are the bride and her mother.
(b) It is the day his daughter's suitor will pay the bride-price and everyone will celebrate.
(c) It is the day his daughtor's suitor brings the whole neighborhood to see the hut where he and his bride will be living.
(d) It is the day his daughter will practice for the wedding ceremony, followed by a celebration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What hopes does Okonkwo have for his son, Nwoye's , future?

2. How does eighteen-year-old, Okonkwo, bring honor to his village?

3. Why do men and women look forward to the Feast of the New Yam?

4. Why do all the women abandon preparing the food for the uri and rush off to the Obierika's crop field?

5. Okonkwo is sitting in his obi with Ikemefuna and Nwoye, eating dried locusts when Ogbuefi Ezeudu comes with a message. What is the message?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

2. Relate how Okonkwo is able to plant his first yam-seeds when his father gives him nothing.

3. Compare the stories of men to the stories of women in Umuofia.

4. Describe the Week of Peace celebrated in Umuofia . How does Okonkwo violate this sacred peace and what are the consequences?

5. Explain how Ikemefuna is a good friend to Obiageli on the day of the New Yam Festival.

6. 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.

7. Explain how Ekwefi defies the traditions of the clan when Chielo takes Ezinma to Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves.

8. Is it evident that the tribal rituals of marriage are important for not only the wedding couple, but the entire village?

9. How do the people of Umuofia justify mutilating the bodies of children who die in infancy or early childhood, refusing to bury them but leaving them in the forest?

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

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