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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Okonkwo serve at the feast for all the umunna, the descendants of Okolo?
(a) Fish from the stream, and roasted locusts
(b) Roasted locusts and small wild birds
(c) Yams wrapped in palm leaves and roasted with palm oil
(d) Three goats, fowls, foo-foo, yam pottage, egusi soup, bitter-leaf soup, palm-wine and kola nuts

2. What is the tragedy that takes place during the final burial rites for Ezeudu while the cannon is shot and guns fired?
(a) Ezeudu's wife stabs herself.
(b) Another elder of the clan dies in all the excitement.
(c) Ezeudu's sixteen-year-old son is shot in the arm.
(d) Ezeudu's sixteen-year-old son is killed when Okonkwo's gun explodes.

3. How is Okonkwo going to thank his mother's people for helping him during his seven years in exile?
(a) He is going to have a great feast.
(b) He is going to leave behind one of his wives to work for the rulers and elders.
(c) He is going to give the elders a bag of cowries.
(d) He is going to distribute all his yam seeds to the people.

4. What does Okonkwo send to Obierika as he enters his final year of exile?
(a) Four hundred yam seeds to sow in Okonkwo's old field, so he and his family will have food when they returned from exile
(b) bag of cowries to repay Obierika for the money he gave him through the years
(c) Money to build two huts on Okonkwo's old compound where he and his family will live until he builds more
(d) Money to build a obi for Okonkwo for when he and his family return

5. What is Okonkwo's punishment for killing Ezeudu's son?
(a) Beheading and disgrace.
(b) He and his wives and children have to flee the land.
(c) All of Okonkwo's sons are to be executed.
(d) One of Okonkwo's sons is to be offered as sacrifice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the oldest member of the clan say is the reason for gathering for Okonkwo's feast?

2. How does Ekwefi and Ezinma harvest the cassava for the feast?

3. What happens to twins born in Umuofia?

4. 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?

5. What descends on the land of Okonkwo, darkens the sky, settles on the rooftops, and breaks mighty tree branches under them?

(see the answer key)

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