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

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

3. Why is Okonkwo considered one of the greatest men of his time?
(a) He is a sympathetic, loving father and husband.
(b) He is a wealthy farmer, the greatest wrestler, has a barn full of yams, and has three wives.
(c) He has patience for all men, even unsuccessful ones.
(d) He is the greatest flute player in the village.

4. 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

5. How does eighteen-year-old, Okonkwo, bring honor to his village?
(a) He plays his flute in the village after the harvest.
(b) He has no patience with unsuccessful men.
(c) He throws the great wrestler, Amalinze the Cat.
(d) He has a barn full of yams.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Unkona's neighbor, Okoye, visit him?

2. How is the weather during the first growing season that Okonkwo starts share-cropping for Nwakibie?

3. Anasi is Nwakibie's first wife, which makes her the ruler over the other wives of Nwakibie. She is the only wife who can wear her husband's titles. Where are the titles worn on Anasi?

4. Why does Nwakibie trust Okonkwo to farm his yam seeds?

5. The punishment for breaking the sacred peace changes through the years. What happened to a man that broke the Week of Peace in the past?

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