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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. 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) Campfire wood, and a pot of soup.
(b) A bamboo basket and a goatflask.
(c) Goat's milk and eggs.
(d) Palm-wine, a cock, kola nut, and alligator pepper.

2. 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 cries and sinks into despair.
(d) He feels he can survive anything, since he has survived this disastrous year.

3. 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 daughter will practice for the wedding ceremony, followed by a celebration.
(d) It is the day his daughtor's suitor brings the whole neighborhood to see the hut where he and his bride will be living.

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

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?
(a) A colorful, clay pot.
(b) A goatskin flask.
(c) A human head.
(d) A woven, bamboo basket.

Short Answer Questions

1. Obierika's daughter, Akueke, is sixteen, just the right age for marrying. How does her suitor and his relatives determine if she is ripe for marriage?

2. While talking with Okoye about the war, Unkona changes the subject to which topic?

3. Nwoye's mother calls Ezinma "Ezigbo" when she brings the fire to Nwoye's mother's hut. What does "Ezigbo" mean?

4. Who is the priestess of Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves, in real life?

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

2. Explain what role the egwuwu, the ancestral spirits of the clan, has in the public trials of the nine villages of the clan.

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

4. Do you agree with the old man who said that Okonkwo's palm-kernels had been cracked for him by a benevolent spirit? Justify your answer.

5. Evaluate Okonkwo's frame of mind after the destruction of the yam crop.

6. Compare the differences in the attitudes of the people of Umuofia with regard to a dark night and a moonlit night.

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

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

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

10. Summarize how the people pass the time during the rainy season.

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