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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ezinma, the daughter of Okonkwo's second wife, bring fire to Nwoye's mother's hut?
(a) Ekwefi, Okonkwo's second wife, makes a torch of banana leaves and palm oil, and gives it to Ezinma to carry to Nwoye's mother.
(b) Ekwefi, Okonkwo's second wife, puts live coals into a piece of broken pot and Ezinma carries it to Nwoye's mother.
(c) Ekwefi, Okonkwo's second wife, gives Ezinma a clay pot with burning leaves inside to carry to Nwoye's mother's hut.
(d) Ezinma carries a flaming stick across the compound to Nwoye's mother's hut.

2. What is the first trial's dispute set before Evil Forest and the egwugwu?
(a) The case of one man stealing yams from the barn of another.
(b) The case of Mgbafo running away from her husband, Uzowulu, because he beat her and caused her to miscarry. Mgbafo's relatives refuse to give him back the bride-price because he beats her.
(c) The case of a mother beating her child to death.
(d) The case of a man being murdered and left by the side of the road by his brother.

3. What does Nwoye do after his father, Okonkwo, beats him for being with the missionaries?
(a) He screams for his mother's help.
(b) He leaves his family to go the the Christian school in Umuofia.
(c) He begs his father to stop beating him.
(d) He swears that he will never go near the missionary church again.

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) Ogbuefi Ezendu
(c) Okonkwo
(d) Nwoye

5. Under what circumstances will the people of Umuofia consult Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves?
(a) When they are followed by misfortune, when they have a dispute with their neighbors, to see their futures, and to talk to the spirits.
(b) To ask for wealth, prosperity, and many newborn sons.
(c) To find out if their wives are being faithful.
(d) To ask for a cure for a fatal disease.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the nickname of kotma, the court messengers who guard the prison which holds people who break the white man's law?

2. What is Okonkwo afraid will happen to his male children after he dies?

3. Okonkwo's friend, Obierika, is celebrating his daughter's uri. Why does this day put the entire neighborhood into a festive air?

4. What is the shameful death Unoka endures?

5. What is the name of the boy who wins the wrestling match in the fifteen- to sixteen-year-old age group with a lightning fast move that was never seen before?

(see the answer key)

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