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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the six leaders of Umuofia during their meeting with the District Commissioner?
(a) The Commissioner and leaders agree to peace.
(b) They are treated with kindness and respect.
(c) They are put in handcuffs, and led to the guardroom.
(d) They share a feast with the District Commissioner.

2. What is the name of the first woman to join the Christian missionaries?
(a) Nneka
(b) Ekwefi
(c) Ezinma
(d) Nwoye's mother

3. How many cowries do the court messengers ask the people for as payment to release their leaders?
(a) Three hundred bags
(b) Two hundred bags
(c) Two hundred and fifty bags
(d) Two hundred and ten bags

4. What does Okonkwo feel the greatest obstacle to going to war against the white man is?
(a) His own cowardice
(b) The cowardice of Egonwanne
(c) The clan is not prepared for war
(d) The fear of the clan

5. What do the people of Mbanta expect to happen to the missionaries when they start building their church?
(a) They expect all the people of Mbanta to help build the church.
(b) They expect all the missionaries to die within four days.
(c) They think many of the clan will convert to the new religion.
(d) They expect all the missionaries to get sick.

6. Why does Uchendu say, "Never kill a man who says nothing" when Obierika tells them about the white man the Abame killed?
(a) He may not be able to speak your language.
(b) The white man did not said anything to the Abame and according to Uchendu, silence is ominous.
(c) He may hold secrets you need to learn.
(d) Because he did not defended himself and may be innocent.

7. What does the Abame clan do to the first white man that comes to their village?
(a) They rub his body with palm oil and adorn him with beads, thinking he is a god.
(b) They touch his white skin because they have never seen anything like it before.
(c) They kill him and tie his iron horse to the sacred silk-cotton tree.
(d) They offer vegetable soup and palm-wine to him.

8. What does the angry band of egwugwu do to Enoch's compound and the Christian church as revenge for unmasking one of the ancestral spirits?
(a) They rub red clay and palm oil all over the buildings.
(b) They leave the buildings alone and try to find Enoch.
(c) They burn them to the ground.
(d) They murder all Enoch's family and the Christians in the church.

9. Why does Obierika go to visit Okonkwo a second time, two years after the first?
(a) He misses his good friend, Okonkwo, and thinks he should tell him that missionaries had come.
(b) To find out if all is well with Okonkwo and his family.
(c) To find out why Okonkwo's son, Nwoye, joined the white missionaries.
(d) To bring more cowries and some yam seeds to his friend, Okonkwo

10. How does Ekwefi and Ezinma harvest the cassava for the feast?
(a) They cut the cassava off the trees with machetes.
(b) They pick the cassava off the tops of the trees.
(c) The shake the tree, and the cassava fall to the ground.
(d) They shake every tree with a long stick, bend down to cut the stem, and dig out the tuber.

11. When Aneto kills Oduche over a land dispute, what does the white man's government decide?
(a) To exile Aneto and his family
(b) To imprison Aneto for life
(c) To hang Aneto
(d) To whip Aneto

12. What does Uchendu tell Okonkw his duty was?
(a) Comfort his wives and children and take them back to his fatherland after seven years.
(b) Never return to his homeland, but build his future in Mbanta.
(c) Forget about his past, and denounce his homeland.
(d) To go back to his clan and beg to be forgiven.

13. What punishment does the District Commissioner give the six leaders of Umuofia?
(a) Beheading in the public market
(b) Give all the yams in their barns to the commissioner
(c) Destruction of the leader's compounds
(d) Collect two hundred bags of cowries from the people as a fine

14. What is Okonkwo's popular nickname?
(a) Roaring Flame
(b) Flaming Heart
(c) Living Legend
(d) Raging Wrestler

15. What does the ekwe, a hollowed out wooden instrument and the blast of the cannon signify to the nine villages of Umuofia?
(a) The beginning of a festival
(b) The death of a man
(c) The birth of a child
(d) The beginning of war

Short Answer Questions

1. Who touches off the conflict between church and clan in Umuofia that has been building since Mr. Brown left?

2. What is the first thing Mr. Kiaga orders the outcasts to do if they want to remain in the new religion?

3. What does Okonkwo mourn when he returns to his clan?

4. What is the other thing that the white man brought to Umuofia besides religion?

5. What option does Ajofia, the leading egwugwu, give to Mr. Smith when they come to the church?

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