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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the things that Okonkwo fears most?
(a) Forces of nature.
(b) Evil and capricious gods.
(c) Failure, weakness, and himself.
(d) The forest and magic.

2. The first day of the new year is celebrated with feasting and fellowship. What takes place on the second day of the new year?
(a) A gathering in the marketplace for the preparation of the new yams for planting.
(b) The gathering of all the village musicians for singing and dancing.
(c) The great wrestling match between Okonkwo's village and their neighbors.
(d) A play enacting the planting of yams put on by the children of all the villages in Umuofia.

3. Obiageli, Nwoye's sister, comes home crying because her water pot is broken. How did her waterpot break?
(a) She was showing off, swaying her waist and the pot fell.
(b) She overfilled the pot with water and was unable to carry the weight. The pot tipped and fell.
(c) She tripped over a stone in the pathway, and fell with her water pot.
(d) She was pushed by Nwoye's younger brother and fell with her pot, spilling the water and smashing the pot.

4. What is used to inform all the men of the Umuofia to meet in the market place the following morning?
(a) The town crier beating on his hollow, metal ogene.
(b) The beating of drums in the night.
(c) A choir of people singing the message.
(d) A group of armed warriors.

5. Where does Okonkwo bring his family after being banished from his village?
(a) To live in a cave in the hills
(b) To an enemy village asking to be accepted
(c) To his mother's kinsmen in Mbanta
(d) To wander the forests and live off the land

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the significance of the beating of drums in the village playground, the ilo, where all the great ceremonies and dances of the village take place?

2. What does Nwoye do after his father, Okonkwo, beats him for being with the missionaries?

3. What is the first trial's dispute set before Evil Forest and the egwugwu?

4. What does Okagbue, the medicine man, dig up from under the orange tree that makes the people of the village believe that Ezinma will live to adulthood?

5. How does Ezinma, the daughter of Okonkwo's second wife, bring fire to Nwoye's mother's hut?

(see the answer key)

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