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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Okonkwo is very prosperous, owning a large compound with many huts, and an abundance of food. Ikemefuna is given to Okonkwo to live with him until the clan decides Ikemefuna's fate. How does Ikemefuna react to living with Okonkwo?
(a) He is thankful that he will never be hungry living with Okonkwo, his three wives, and eight children.
(b) He is afraid and does not understand the circumstances.
(c) He is pleased to be living with such a powerful, wealthy man.
(d) He hopes to learn how to become a great farmer and warrior from Okonkwo.

2. Why is Okonkwo's twelve-year-old son, Nwoye, causing him great anxiety?
(a) Nwoye is a wild, unruly boy.
(b) Okonkwo is jealous of his son's growing strength.
(c) Okonkwo believes his son to be lazy.
(d) Nwoye complains about having to work in the fields from dawn to dusk.

3. Okonkwo does not fear war. In the last war he fought, he brought home a souvenir which he drank palm-wine out of. What is this souvenir?
(a) A woven, bamboo basket.
(b) A human head.
(c) A colorful, clay pot.
(d) A goatskin flask.

4. Why do men and women look forward to the Feast of the New Yam?
(a) The men and women cook and feed each other the yams from the previous harvest so that no food will be wasted.
(b) It is the beginning of the season of plenty--the new year. It begins with huge quantities of fresh yams, yam foo foo and vegetable soup.
(c) It is a festival of dancing around the new yams of the season and eating the rest of the old yams for the previous year.
(d) It is a feast of yam stew made from all the leftover yams of the past harvest, which is divided among all the people.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Nwoye's mother calls Ezinma "Ezigbo" when she brings the fire to Nwoye's mother's hut. What does "Ezigbo" mean?

3. Why does Nwakibie trust Okonkwo to farm his yam seeds?

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

5. What is the festival that gives thanks to Ani, the earth goddess and source of fertility?

(see the answer key)

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