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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first trial's dispute set before Evil Forest and the egwugwu?
(a) The case of Mgbafo running away from her husband, Uzowulu, because he beat her and caused her to miscarry. Mgbafo's relatives refuse to give him back the bride-price because he beats her.
(b) The case of a mother beating her child to death.
(c) The case of one man stealing yams from the barn of another.
(d) The case of a man being murdered and left by the side of the road by his brother.

2. How do the women of the clan prepare for the Feast of the New Yam?
(a) They decorate robes with intricate patterns made of colored beans, plaite each others hair, color their faces with red clay, and make veils to cover their faces during the festival.
(b) They scrub the walls and huts with red earth, draw patterns on them in white, yellow and green, paint themselves with cam wood, and draw black patterns on their stomach and backs.
(c) They cleanse their bodies, wear a simple robe and sandles, and scrub their faces. They are to go to the festival free of all paint, jewelry, or ornamentation of any kind.
(d) They gather in the marketplace to share all their clothing, jewelry and sandals with one another. They wear each others belongings to prove to the goddess, Ani, that they are worthy people.

3. How does Okonkwo react to the disastrous growing season that destroy all his yams and the yams of his people?
(a) His heart is broken from the loss of his crop, leaving him depressed and suicidal.
(b) He gives up being a farmer, and begins looking for a new trade.
(c) He cries and sinks into despair.
(d) He feels he can survive anything, since he has survived this disastrous year.

4. The punishment for breaking the sacred peace changes through the years. What happened to a man that broke the Week of Peace in the past?
(a) He was dragged on the ground through the village until dead.
(b) He was tied in the village marketplace and each member of the clan spat on him.
(c) He was hanged in the marketplace for all to see.
(d) He was exiled from Umuofia, considered to be dead to all the clan.

5. Why doesn't Okonkwo have any patience with his father?
(a) Unoka is lazy, a debtor, and a failure.
(b) Unkona is overly ambitious and driven to earn the highest titles in the land.
(c) Unkona spoils his wife and children, providing them with too much food and money.
(d) Unkona is a great warrior who is always away at war.

6. What is the shameful death Unoka endures?
(a) Beheading because of his many unpaid debts.
(b) Drowning in his own vomit after too much palm-wine.
(c) Dying of the abomination of swollen stomach and limbs, never to be buried in the earth.
(d) Starvation due to his many failed crops.

7. Nwoye's mother calls Ezinma "Ezigbo" when she brings the fire to Nwoye's mother's hut. What does "Ezigbo" mean?
(a) The good one
(b) Good girl
(c) Helpful child
(d) Good work

8. Why do men and women look forward to the Feast of the New Yam?
(a) The men and women cook and feed each other the yams from the previous harvest so that no food will be wasted.
(b) 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.
(c) 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.
(d) It is a feast of yam stew made from all the leftover yams of the past harvest, which is divided among all the people.

9. Why is Umuofia feared by all its neighbors?
(a) The medicine woman curses all its enemies.
(b) It is powerful in war and magic and has a strong war medicine called agadi-nwayi.
(c) It never tries to find a peaceful settlement before going to war.
(d) Umuofia goes to war whether the case is clear and just or not.

10. Which men fight in the final wrestling match of the day?
(a) The leaders of the teams are made up of the best wrestlers in the nine villages.
(b) Men chosen by the elders from each of the nine villages.
(c) Men elected in each of the nine villages.
(d) The wealthiest men from each of the nine villages.

11. Which of the spectators of the wrestling match are allowed to sit around the huge circle of the wrestling ring?
(a) The wrestlers waiting for their matches.
(b) The elders, grandees, a few early comers in the stands, and the drummers.
(c) Pregnant women.
(d) Women and children.

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

13. How does Ekwefi make the medicine she hopes would cure Ezinma?
(a) She mixes palm-wine and red clay into a medicinal mud and rubs it on Ezinma's face and chest.
(b) She boiled a hen, added yams and nuts to make a medicinal broth for Ezinma to drink.
(c) She grounds kola nuts and bananas together, forming a paste to put on Ezinma's tongue.
(d) She puts a pot on the fire, adding medicinal plants, grasses, leaves, roots and barks. She brought them to a boil being careful that it didn't boil over and lose its power.

14. What does the law state in Umuofia if a woman runs away from her husband?
(a) She must be left in the forest to die.
(b) She is to be killed and left unburied for the vultures and wild animals.
(c) Her bride-price must be returned to the husband.
(d) Her husband is allowed to go get her, dragging her back home by the hair.

15. Obiageli, Nwoye's sister, comes home crying because her water pot is broken. How did her waterpot break?
(a) She was showing off, swaying her waist and the pot fell.
(b) She was pushed by Nwoye's younger brother and fell with her pot, spilling the water and smashing the pot.
(c) She overfilled the pot with water and was unable to carry the weight. The pot tipped and fell.
(d) She tripped over a stone in the pathway, and fell with her water pot.

Short Answer 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?

2. Who is Okonkwo's father?

3. Why does Unkona change the subject to music when he and Oybe are discussing the impending war with the village of Mbaino?

4. Why does Unkona's neighbor, Okoye, visit him?

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?

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