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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the women's duties after the yams are planted?
(a) They plant kola nuts between the yams, and weed the yams every day.
(b) They plant maize, melons, and beans between the mounds. They also weeded the farm three times per planting season.
(c) They make bamboo woven hats for the farmers working in the hot sun.
(d) They make meals for the men working in the fields.

2. What is Okonkwo's punishment for committing a "nso-ani" during the Week of Peace?
(a) Bring a bamboo basket of yams, a flask of palm-wine and a hen to the shrine of Ani.
(b) Go to the shrine of Ani and confess his disrespectful behavior to the gods of the clan, remaining on his knees throughout a day and night.
(c) Bring a she-goat, one hen, a length of cloth, and a hundred cowries to the shrine of Ani.
(d) Go to the shrine of Ani, fast for three days, and beg forgiveness for breaking the sacred peace.

3. The Ibo people consider conversation to be very important. What form of conversation do they regard the most highly?
(a) Orations
(b) Proverbs
(c) Sarcasm
(d) Rhyming

4. Why does Okoye need to collect a past debt from Unkona?
(a) To buy yams for his three wives.
(b) Okoye needs money to help him overcome his failures.
(c) To buy a new ogene, the musical instrument Okoye played.
(d) To help pay for the expensive Idemili title ceremony.

5. During the rainy season, how do the people of the village pass the time?
(a) They spend many hours praying to the gods for a bountiful harvest.
(b) They prepare yam seeds for next year's fields.
(c) In each hut, children sit by their mother's cooking fire and tell stories, or sit with their father, roasting and eating maize.
(d) They spent time in the hut, listening to flute music, weaving baskets, and sleeping.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Okonkwo react to the disastrous growing season that destroy all his yams and the yams of his people?

3. What do the people of Umuofia fear in the night?

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

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

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