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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Okonkwo beat his second wife, Ojiugo, during the sacred Week of Peace?
(a) She is caught with another man.
(b) She cooks a meal that Okonkwo does not like.
(c) She disagrees with what Okonkwo has to say.
(d) She is at a friend's house and does not prepare Okonkwo's afternoon meal.

2. The Ibo people consider conversation to be very important. What form of conversation do they regard the most highly?
(a) Proverbs
(b) Rhyming
(c) Orations
(d) Sarcasm

3. While talking with Okoye about the war, Unkona changes the subject to which topic?
(a) Ancestral feasts
(b) Music
(c) Heavy rains
(d) Farming

4. What is used to inform all the men of the Umuofia to meet in the market place the following morning?
(a) A choir of people singing the message.
(b) The town crier beating on his hollow, metal ogene.
(c) The beating of drums in the night.
(d) A group of armed warriors.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Okonkwo's twelve-year-old son, Nwoye, causing him great anxiety?

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

4. How does Okonkwo react to the disastrous growing season that destroy all his yams and the yams of his people?

5. How does Nwoye's mother treat Ikemenfuna?

(see the answer key)

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