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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 first thing Okonkwo plans to do when he returns to his clan?
(a) Have his wives cook meals for the village
(b) Rebuild his compound better than it was before
(c) Move in with a neighbor until he could rebuild
(d) Go to each neighboring hut, apologizing for the past

2. How many men are in each of the two teams of wrestlers who face each other in the wrestling ring?
(a) Five men on each side
(b) Twelve men on each side
(c) Nine men on each side
(d) Six men on each side

3. What does Okonkwo mourn when he returns to his clan?
(a) The clan is too aggressive and angry.
(b) The clan is breaking up and falling apart.
(c) The clan is malnourished and weak.
(d) The clan is poor.

4. 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 was pushed by Nwoye's younger brother and fell with her pot, spilling the water and smashing the pot.
(d) She tripped over a stone in the pathway, and fell with her water pot.

5. How many missionaries go to Mbanta?
(a) Six and one of them is white
(b) Three black missionaries
(c) Three white missionaries
(d) Two white missionaries

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the man that the ekwe announces to Umuofia?

2. What do the missionaries tell the Mbanta people about their gods?

3. What happens to twins born in Umuofia?

4. What happens in Umuofia the next time Obierika comes to visit Okonkwo, two years later?

5. What are the traditional events when night falls and it is time to end Obierika's daughter's uri?

(see the answer key)

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