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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Njide, the eldest sister of Uchendu, ask of her brother's bride during the isa-ife?
(a) Do you plan on being faithful and obedient to my brother?
(b) How many men have you lain with since my brother first expressed the desire to marry you?
(c) How do you plan to keep a tranquil household for my brother?
(d) How many children do you plan to bear in my brother's name?

2. Where does the powerful Oracle of the Hills, Agbala, live?
(a) Through a round hole in the side of the hill leading to a dimly lit cave.
(b) In a large, handsomely endowed compound in the hills filled with the gifts from those asking for a consultation.
(c) In the treetops with all the climbing creatures of Umuofia.
(d) Deep underground with the creatures of the soil, beneath the hills and all things that live above the ground.

3. Nine out of ten of Ekwefi's children die in infancy. After the second death, Okonkwo goes to the medicine man to find out why this is happening. What explanation does the diviner give?
(a) Ekwefi should just keep trying, and sooner or later a child would survive.
(b) Ekwefi did not eat vegetable soup throughout her pregnancies.
(c) Ekwefi is weak and should not become pregnant again.
(d) The child is an agbanje, a wicked child that enters the mother's womb to be born again.

4. Why is the big, ancient silk-cotton tree in the playground considered sacred?
(a) The tree holds the spirits of all the ancestors of the clan.
(b) The tree holds all the spirits of the men who died in wars since the beginning of time.
(c) The tree is believed to have been the first tree in existence.
(d) The spirits of good children waiting to be born live in the tree.

5. Okonkwo's friend, Obierika, is celebrating his daughter's uri. Why does this day put the entire neighborhood into a festive air?
(a) It is the day when his daughter's suitor brings palm-wine to her parents and her entire group of kinsmen, umunna. Everyone is invited, but the central figures are the bride and her mother.
(b) It is the day his daughter's suitor will pay the bride-price and everyone will celebrate.
(c) It is the day his daughtor's suitor brings the whole neighborhood to see the hut where he and his bride will be living.
(d) It is the day his daughter will practice for the wedding ceremony, followed by a celebration.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nwakibie trust Okonkwo to farm his yam seeds?

2. What does Okagbue, the medicine man, dig up from under the orange tree that makes the people of the village believe that Ezinma will live to adulthood?

3. How does Ekwefi make the medicine she hopes would cure Ezinma?

4. What is the shameful death Unoka endures?

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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