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

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?
(a) That he angers his ancestors and they plague his land.
(b) That Unoka sows his yams on exhausted land rather than making the effort to clear new land.
(c) That Unoka has offended the gods and that is why his crop fail.
(d) That he should stay home and offer sacrifices to the gods.

3. Who is the first man Okonkwo works for as a share-cropper ?
(a) Nwakibie
(b) Ogbuefi Udo
(c) Agbala
(d) Okoye

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

5. Who is the priestess of Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves, in real life?
(a) Noywe's mother
(b) Anasi, Okonkwo's first wife
(c) Ekwefi, the second wife of Okonkwo
(d) Chielo, a widow with two children

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do all the women abandon preparing the food for the uri and rush off to the Obierika's crop field?

2. 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?

3. What is the shameful death Unoka endures?

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

5. What are the crops that are considered women's crops by the people of Umuofia?

(see the answer key)

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