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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 sitting in his obi with Ikemefuna and Nwoye, eating dried locusts when Ogbuefi Ezeudu comes with a message. What is the message?
(a) Ikemefuna is to be given all the rights of an adopted son to Okonkwo.
(b) Umuofia decides to kill Ikemefuna. The Oracle of the Hills pronounces it. Okonkwo is not to take part in the killing because the boy calls him father.
(c) Nwoye and Ikemefuna are to be declared by Umuofia as brothers for life.
(d) Ikemefuna is to remain in Okonkwo's household as a servant for the rest of his life.

2. How is the weather during the first growing season that Okonkwo starts share-cropping for Nwakibie?
(a) The beginning of the season is poor weather for growing yams, but the second planting of the season grows huge yams, sweet and plump.
(b) The best growing weather ever: yams flourish with the nightly rains and sunny days.
(c) The worst in memory: late rains and scorching sun kill the yams, then torrential downpours wash the seeds away.
(d) Some good days, and some bad: the yams grow, but not to their potential. Some days were too hot and some rains too severe.

3. What is the emergency that the great orator announces at the meeting in the marketplace?
(a) The warriors of Mbaino raid one of the villages of Umuofia.
(b) The powerful medicine woman of Umuofia dies during the night.
(c) The yam harvest of one of the village celebrities is stolen from his barn.
(d) The wife of Ogbuefi Udo is murdered in Mbaino when she goes to market.

4. 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 colorful, clay pot.
(c) A goatskin flask.
(d) A human head.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the powerful Oracle of the Hills, Agbala, live?

2. Okonkwo and the men of Umuofia take Ikemefuna deep into the forest and kill him with machetes. Who gives the final thrust of the machete that ends Ikemefuna's life?

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

4. Under what circumstances will the people of Umuofia consult Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves?

5. Obiageli, Nwoye's sister, comes home crying because her water pot is broken. How did her waterpot break?

(see the answer key)

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