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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many pots of wine do Obierika's in-laws brink to his home for the uri?
(a) None
(b) Twenty-five
(c) Fifty
(d) Twenty

2. 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 grounds kola nuts and bananas together, forming a paste to put on Ezinma's tongue.
(c) 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.
(d) She mixes palm-wine and red clay into a medicinal mud and rubs it on Ezinma's face and chest.

3. What are the traditional events when night falls and it is time to end Obierika's daughter's uri?
(a) The elders sit in a circle while singers sing each man's praise. Then the guest's rise to go and the bride is to leave with them for seven weeks.
(b) The leftover wine is divided into flasks for the guests to take home.
(c) The singers sing a song of praise to Obierika for such a wonderful celebration.
(d) The women gather all the pots, filling them with leftover food and give each guest a pot to take home.

4. 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) Ikemefuna
(c) Maduka
(d) Nwoye

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Uchendu, the younger brother of Okonkwo's mother, give to Okonkwo after he comes looking for refuge?

2. Where does Obierika send one of his relatives to get a fat goat to give to his in-laws during the uri?

3. Anasi is Nwakibie's first wife, which makes her the ruler over the other wives of Nwakibie. She is the only wife who can wear her husband's titles. Where are the titles worn on Anasi?

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

5. What is the shameful death Unoka endures?

(see the answer key)

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