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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the significance of the beating of drums in the village playground, the ilo, where all the great ceremonies and dances of the village take place?
(a) The drums beat as each wrestler is thrown to the ground.
(b) The beating of the drums means that the wrestling match will begin at noon.
(c) The drums play the wrestling dance in preparation for the wrestling match at sundown.
(d) The beating drums announce that there is a winner in the wrestling match.

2. What do the people of Umuofia fear in the night?
(a) Evil spirits, dangerous animals, and snakes.
(b) Bandits in search of money and food.
(c) Rogue warriors from Mbaino.
(d) Kidnappers looking for children to sell as slaves.

3. What hopes does Okonkwo have for his son, Nwoye's , future?
(a) He wants Nwoye to be a great warrior with many heroic victories to his name.
(b) He wants Nwoye to be a talented musician, performing at all the festivals in the nine villages.
(c) He wants Nwoye to be prosperous, that he will have enough to feed the ancestors with regular sacrifices, and he will be able to rule his women and children.
(d) He hopes Nwoye would be a fair, just, and wise father and husband, showing kindness and love to his family.

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

5. Why do men and women look forward to the Feast of the New Yam?
(a) It is the beginning of the season of plenty--the new year. It begins with huge quantities of fresh yams, yam foo foo and vegetable soup.
(b) It is a feast of yam stew made from all the leftover yams of the past harvest, which is divided among all the people.
(c) The men and women cook and feed each other the yams from the previous harvest so that no food will be wasted.
(d) It is a festival of dancing around the new yams of the season and eating the rest of the old yams for the previous year.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what circumstances will the people of Umuofia consult Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves?

2. What is used to inform all the men of the Umuofia to meet in the market place the following morning?

3. 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?

4. How many men are in each of the two teams of wrestlers who face each other in the wrestling ring?

5. What ultimatum is dispatched to Mbaino as a consequence of the murder of the woman from Umuofia?

(see the answer key)

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