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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 his daughtor's suitor brings the whole neighborhood to see the hut where he and his bride will be living.
(b) It is the day his daughter will practice for the wedding ceremony, followed by a celebration.
(c) 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.
(d) It is the day his daughter's suitor will pay the bride-price and everyone will celebrate.

2. How does Ekwefi make the medicine she hopes would cure Ezinma?
(a) 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.
(b) She mixes palm-wine and red clay into a medicinal mud and rubs it on Ezinma's face and chest.
(c) She grounds kola nuts and bananas together, forming a paste to put on Ezinma's tongue.
(d) She boiled a hen, added yams and nuts to make a medicinal broth for Ezinma to drink.

3. How is the weather during the first growing season that Okonkwo starts share-cropping for Nwakibie?
(a) The best growing weather ever: yams flourish with the nightly rains and sunny days.
(b) The beginning of the season is poor weather for growing yams, but the second planting of the season grows huge yams, sweet and plump.
(c) The worst in memory: late rains and scorching sun kill the yams, then torrential downpours wash the seeds away.
(d) Some good days, and some bad: the yams grow, but not to their potential. Some days were too hot and some rains too severe.

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

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

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. Why do the people say "Mother is Supreme" when the man is the head of the family and his wives and children are obedient to him?

3. Which of the spectators of the wrestling match are allowed to sit around the huge circle of the wrestling ring?

4. What question does Njide, the eldest sister of Uchendu, ask of her brother's bride during the isa-ife?

5. How many men are in each of the two teams of wrestlers who face each other in the wrestling ring?

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