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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the first woman to join the Christian missionaries?
(a) Ekwefi
(b) Ezinma
(c) Nwoye's mother
(d) Nneka

3. Which of the spectators of the wrestling match are allowed to sit around the huge circle of the wrestling ring?
(a) Women and children.
(b) The elders, grandees, a few early comers in the stands, and the drummers.
(c) The wrestlers waiting for their matches.
(d) Pregnant women.

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) One of Mbaino's most powerful warriors.
(b) A large monetary payment for the people of Umofia.
(c) A fifteen-year-old boy named Ikemefuna and a young virgin to replace the murdered woman.
(d) The wife of the murderer.

5. 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) A bamboo basket and a goatflask.
(b) Campfire wood, and a pot of soup.
(c) Goat's milk and eggs.
(d) Palm-wine, a cock, kola nut, and alligator pepper.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do the people say "Mother is Supreme" when the man is the head of the family and his wives and children are obedient to him?

3. Why is Umuofia feared by all its neighbors?

4. What descends on the land of Okonkwo, darkens the sky, settles on the rooftops, and breaks mighty tree branches under them?

5. What happens to twins born in Umuofia?

(see the answer key)

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