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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ezinma, the daughter of Okonkwo's second wife, bring fire to Nwoye's mother's hut?
(a) Ekwefi, Okonkwo's second wife, gives Ezinma a clay pot with burning leaves inside to carry to Nwoye's mother's hut.
(b) Ezinma carries a flaming stick across the compound to Nwoye's mother's hut.
(c) Ekwefi, Okonkwo's second wife, puts live coals into a piece of broken pot and Ezinma carries it to Nwoye's mother.
(d) Ekwefi, Okonkwo's second wife, makes a torch of banana leaves and palm oil, and gives it to Ezinma to carry to Nwoye's mother.

2. After speaking with the elders of nine villages, what does Okonkwo tell Ikemefuna about what is going to happen to him?
(a) That he is going home.
(b) That he is being exiled.
(c) That he is being killed.
(d) That he is free to go.

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

4. Okonkwo of Umuofia is the emissary of war to Mbaino. What does Mbaino give him as an offering for the murder of the woman from Umuofia?
(a) A fifteen-year-old boy named Ikemefuna and a young virgin to replace the murdered woman.
(b) The wife of the murderer.
(c) A large monetary payment for the people of Umofia.
(d) One of Mbaino's most powerful warriors.

5. What is used to inform all the men of the Umuofia to meet in the market place the following morning?
(a) The town crier beating on his hollow, metal ogene.
(b) A group of armed warriors.
(c) A choir of people singing the message.
(d) The beating of drums in the night.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Okonkwo's twelve-year-old son, Nwoye, causing him great anxiety?

2. Why is the big, ancient silk-cotton tree in the playground considered sacred?

3. What is the only way a young man can build a barn of his own if his father has no yams?

4. What drives Okonkwo into a rage on the first day of the festival, leading him to beat his second wife, Ekwefi, and almost kill her with a gun?

5. Who is the powerful orator that informs the ten thousand men of the emergency facing the nine villages of Umuofia?

(see the answer key)

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