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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Obierika
(b) Maduka
(c) Ikemefuna
(d) Nwoye

2. Under what circumstances will the people of Umuofia consult Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves?
(a) To ask for a cure for a fatal disease.
(b) To find out if their wives are being faithful.
(c) When they are followed by misfortune, when they have a dispute with their neighbors, to see their futures, and to talk to the spirits.
(d) To ask for wealth, prosperity, and many newborn sons.

3. 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?
(a) They are referring to the mother of all gods, guiding them to rule the world.
(b) They are referring to Mother Earth and how she is fertile for the yams.
(c) They believe in the very first mother of all men, giving life to all the men who came after.
(d) When a man is sorrowful and bitter, he seeks refuge in his motherland because his mother is there to protect him. It is where she is buried.

4. What is the only way a young man can build a barn of his own if his father has no yams?
(a) Saving his money to buy seeds.
(b) Planting coco-yams.
(c) Share-cropping.
(d) Going to his mother and his father's wives for help.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the traditional events when night falls and it is time to end Obierika's daughter's uri?

2. When Okonkwo was a boy, his father, Unoka, consults Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills, about why his crops always fail.. What reply did the Oracle give?

3. What does Okonkwo bring back from the bush while Ezinma lays sick in Ekwefi's hut?

4. Who is the first man Okonkwo works for as a share-cropper ?

5. How does Okonkwo react to the disastrous growing season that destroy all his yams and the yams of his people?

(see the answer key)

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