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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 yam harvest of one of the village celebrities is stolen from his barn.
(b) The warriors of Mbaino raid one of the villages of Umuofia.
(c) The powerful medicine woman of Umuofia dies during the night.
(d) The wife of Ogbuefi Udo is murdered in Mbaino when she goes to market.

2. What ultimatum is dispatched to Mbaino as a consequence of the murder of the woman from Umuofia?
(a) Choose between war or the offer of a young man and a virgin from Mbaino.
(b) The sacrificial offering of one of the daughters of Mbaino.
(c) Delivery to Umuofia a year's worth of the yam harvest as a peace offering.
(d) Deliver the head of the murderer to the people of Umuofia.

3. What do the missionaries tell the Mbanta people about their gods?
(a) The gods are true and should be sacrificed to for abundant crops.
(b) They are gods of deceit who tell you to kill your fellows and destroy innocent children.
(c) They are wonderful, loving gods, but are not the one true God.
(d) They are mythical, friendly gods but are not real.

4. Nine out of ten of Ekwefi's children die in infancy. After the second death, Okonkwo goes to the medicine man to find out why this is happening. What explanation does the diviner give?
(a) The child is an agbanje, a wicked child that enters the mother's womb to be born again.
(b) Ekwefi is weak and should not become pregnant again.
(c) Ekwefi should just keep trying, and sooner or later a child would survive.
(d) Ekwefi did not eat vegetable soup throughout her pregnancies.

5. Why is Okonkwo's twelve-year-old son, Nwoye, causing him great anxiety?
(a) Okonkwo believes his son to be lazy.
(b) Okonkwo is jealous of his son's growing strength.
(c) Nwoye is a wild, unruly boy.
(d) Nwoye complains about having to work in the fields from dawn to dusk.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the drums sound and the flutes blast, what appears out of the egwugwu house?

2. 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?

3. Nwoye's mother calls Ezinma "Ezigbo" when she brings the fire to Nwoye's mother's hut. What does "Ezigbo" mean?

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

5. Why do the elders fear for the young people of the village?

(see the answer key)

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