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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ezinma tells her mother, Ekwefi, that her upper eyelid is twitching. What does Ekwefi tell Ezinma the significance of the twitch is?
(a) It means the rains will come early this year.
(b) It means Ezinma is going to cry.
(c) It means Ezinma will see something.
(d) It means Ezinma will have many children.

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

3. What does Okonkwo bring with him to share with the wealthy Nwakibie and his family before asking for yam seeds and share cropping privileges?
(a) Palm-wine, a cock, kola nut, and alligator pepper.
(b) Goat's milk and eggs.
(c) A bamboo basket and a goatflask.
(d) Campfire wood, and a pot of soup.

4. 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?
(a) Okafo
(b) Okonkwo
(c) Nwoye
(d) Ogbuefi Ezendu

5. 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 a feast of yam stew made from all the leftover yams of the past harvest, which is divided among all the people.
(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 the beginning of the season of plenty--the new year. It begins with huge quantities of fresh yams, yam foo foo and vegetable soup.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What ultimatum is dispatched to Mbaino as a consequence of the murder of the woman from Umuofia?

3. Why is Umuofia feared by all its neighbors?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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