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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the missionaries tell the Mbanta people about their gods?
(a) They are mythical, friendly gods but are not real.
(b) They are wonderful, loving gods, but are not the one true God.
(c) They are gods of deceit who tell you to kill your fellows and destroy innocent children.
(d) The gods are true and should be sacrificed to for abundant crops.

2. 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) Some good days, and some bad: the yams grow, but not to their potential. Some days were too hot and some rains too severe.
(c) The beginning of the season is poor weather for growing yams, but the second planting of the season grows huge yams, sweet and plump.
(d) The best growing weather ever: yams flourish with the nightly rains and sunny days.

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

4. What descends on the land of Okonkwo, darkens the sky, settles on the rooftops, and breaks mighty tree branches under them?
(a) A swarm of locusts
(b) The arrows of neighboring enemies
(c) A flock of vultures
(d) The spirits of the clans ancestors

5. What ultimatum is dispatched to Mbaino as a consequence of the murder of the woman from Umuofia?
(a) Delivery to Umuofia a year's worth of the yam harvest as a peace offering.
(b) The sacrificial offering of one of the daughters of Mbaino.
(c) Deliver the head of the murderer to the people of Umuofia.
(d) Choose between war or the offer of a young man and a virgin from Mbaino.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Umuofia feared by all its neighbors?

3. What does Okonkwo bring with him to share with the wealthy Nwakibie and his family before asking for yam seeds and share cropping privileges?

4. How does Ezinma, the daughter of Okonkwo's second wife, bring fire to Nwoye's mother's hut?

5. Okonkwo and the men of Umuofia take Ikemefuna deep into the forest and kill him with machetes. Who gives the final thrust of the machete that ends Ikemefuna's life?

(see the answer key)

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