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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

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 make meals for the men working in the fields.
(c) They plant maize, melons, and beans between the mounds. They also weeded the farm three times per planting season.
(d) They make bamboo woven hats for the farmers working in the hot sun.

2. How does Ikemenfuna feel after three weeks of illness?
(a) He vows revenge on Okonkwo and his family.
(b) He gets better and is no longer afraid or sad to be in Okonkwo's home.
(c) He is still bitter and afraid.
(d) He cries every night after his illness for his mother and sisters.

3. How is the weather during the first growing season that Okonkwo starts share-cropping for Nwakibie?
(a) The worst in memory: late rains and scorching sun kill the yams, then torrential downpours wash the seeds away.
(b) The beginning of the season is poor weather for growing yams, but the second planting of the season grows huge yams, sweet and plump.
(c) The best growing weather ever: yams flourish with the nightly rains and sunny days.
(d) Some good days, and some bad: the yams grow, but not to their potential. Some days were too hot and some rains too severe.

4. Ezinma tells her mother, Ekwefi, that her upper eyelid is twitching. What does Ekwefi tell Ezinma the significance of the twitch is?
(a) It means Ezinma is going to cry.
(b) It means Ezinma will have many children.
(c) It means the rains will come early this year.
(d) It means Ezinma will see something.

5. How many men are in each of the two teams of wrestlers who face each other in the wrestling ring?
(a) Five men on each side
(b) Nine men on each side
(c) Twelve men on each side
(d) Six men on each side

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to twins born in Umuofia?

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

3. Why does Okoye need to collect a past debt from Unkona?

4. 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?

5. What is the name of the boy who wins the wrestling match in the fifteen- to sixteen-year-old age group with a lightning fast move that was never seen before?

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