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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) She burns the vegetable soup she is preparing for the festival.
(b) He believes his wife killed a banana tree in the compound, even though it is still alive. She also comments on his inability to shoot well.
(c) Okonkwo is angry because his second wife has not scrubbed the walls of her hut with red earth, and has neglected the rituals of the people.
(d) Okonkwo finds that his second wife has not prepared her children in the traditional fashion of the clan for the festival.

3. What ultimatum is dispatched to Mbaino as a consequence of the murder of the woman from Umuofia?
(a) The sacrificial offering of one of the daughters of Mbaino.
(b) Deliver the head of the murderer to the people of Umuofia.
(c) Delivery to Umuofia a year's worth of the yam harvest as a peace offering.
(d) Choose between war or the offer of a young man and a virgin from Mbaino.

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

5. What is the one passion that rules Okonkwo's life?
(a) To make sure his barn was always filled with yams.
(b) To hate everything his father loved.
(c) To be affluent in money, wives, and children.
(d) To obtain more wealth than anyone else in Umuofia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. What do the people of Umuofia fear in the night?

(see the answer key)

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