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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the crops that are considered women's crops by the people of Umuofia?
(a) Yams, kola nuts, greens
(b) Coco-yams, beans, cassava
(c) Gourds, bananas, oil bean
(d) Palms, bitter-leaf, foo foo

2. What is the custom in the village of Obodoani if a man dies during the Week of Peace?
(a) The man is not buried, but cast into the Evil Forest.
(b) The man is buried as deep as two graves.
(c) The man is burned to ashes, instead of buried.
(d) The man is buried outside the village.

3. Where does the powerful Oracle of the Hills, Agbala, live?
(a) In the treetops with all the climbing creatures of Umuofia.
(b) In a large, handsomely endowed compound in the hills filled with the gifts from those asking for a consultation.
(c) Through a round hole in the side of the hill leading to a dimly lit cave.
(d) Deep underground with the creatures of the soil, beneath the hills and all things that live above the ground.

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

5. Why does Unkona's neighbor, Okoye, visit him?
(a) To collect a two-year-old debt of two hundred cowries.
(b) To talk about music.
(c) To pray with Unkona for life, health, and protection from enemies.
(d) To share kola nuts with Unkona.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the emergency that the great orator announces at the meeting in the marketplace?

2. What ultimatum is dispatched to Mbaino as a consequence of the murder of the woman from Umuofia?

3. Why does Unkona change the subject to music when he and Oybe are discussing the impending war with the village of Mbaino?

4. When Okonkwo is angry and cannot speak because of his stutter, how does he get his point across?

5. How does Ikemenfuna feel after three weeks of illness?

(see the answer key)

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