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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Okonkwo's popular nickname?
(a) Roaring Flame
(b) Flaming Heart
(c) Raging Wrestler
(d) Living Legend

3. Who is the priestess of Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves, in real life?
(a) Ekwefi, the second wife of Okonkwo
(b) Noywe's mother
(c) Chielo, a widow with two children
(d) Anasi, Okonkwo's first wife

4. As the drums sound and the flutes blast, what appears out of the egwugwu house?
(a) The spirits of the ancestors emerge, followed by nine egwugwu, the masked spirits of the nine villages
(b) The medicine man
(c) The priestess
(d) The Oracle of the Hills and the Caves

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the god that the people of Umuofia believe is the creator of the all the world and the other gods?

2. How many missionaries go to Mbanta?

3. What is the only way a young man can build a barn of his own if his father has no yams?

4. How are the children of the village prepared for the Feast of the New Yam?

5. Who is the powerful orator that informs the ten thousand men of the emergency facing the nine villages of Umuofia?

(see the answer key)

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