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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the one passion that rules Okonkwo's life?
(a) To obtain more wealth than anyone else in Umuofia.
(b) To hate everything his father loved.
(c) To be affluent in money, wives, and children.
(d) To make sure his barn was always filled with yams.

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

3. During the rainy season, how do the people of the village pass the time?
(a) They spend many hours praying to the gods for a bountiful harvest.
(b) In each hut, children sit by their mother's cooking fire and tell stories, or sit with their father, roasting and eating maize.
(c) They prepare yam seeds for next year's fields.
(d) They spent time in the hut, listening to flute music, weaving baskets, and sleeping.

4. Who is Okonkwo's father?
(a) Unoka
(b) Ikemefuna
(c) Okoye
(d) Amalinze

5. Who is the powerful orator that informs the ten thousand men of the emergency facing the nine villages of Umuofia?
(a) Okoye
(b) Nwoye
(c) Ogbuefi Ezeugo
(d) Ogbuefi Udo

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what circumstances will the people of Umuofia consult Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves?

2. Why is Okonkwo considered one of the greatest men of his time?

3. Who is the first man Okonkwo works for as a share-cropper ?

4. Why do the people of Umuofia observe the Week of Peace?

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

(see the answer key)

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