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

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

3. What is Okonkwo's punishment for committing a "nso-ani" during the Week of Peace?
(a) Go to the shrine of Ani and confess his disrespectful behavior to the gods of the clan, remaining on his knees throughout a day and night.
(b) Go to the shrine of Ani, fast for three days, and beg forgiveness for breaking the sacred peace.
(c) Bring a she-goat, one hen, a length of cloth, and a hundred cowries to the shrine of Ani.
(d) Bring a bamboo basket of yams, a flask of palm-wine and a hen to the shrine of Ani.

4. How is the weather during the first growing season that Okonkwo starts share-cropping for Nwakibie?
(a) The best growing weather ever: yams flourish with the nightly rains and sunny days.
(b) The beginning of the season is poor weather for growing yams, but the second planting of the season grows huge yams, sweet and plump.
(c) Some good days, and some bad: the yams grow, but not to their potential. Some days were too hot and some rains too severe.
(d) The worst in memory: late rains and scorching sun kill the yams, then torrential downpours wash the seeds away.

5. What is the only way a young man can build a barn of his own if his father has no yams?
(a) Share-cropping.
(b) Saving his money to buy seeds.
(c) Going to his mother and his father's wives for help.
(d) Planting coco-yams.