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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 is at a friend's house and does not prepare Okonkwo's afternoon meal.
(d) She disagrees with what Okonkwo has to say.

2. Okonkwo does not fear war. In the last war he fought, he brought home a souvenir which he drank palm-wine out of. What is this souvenir?
(a) A colorful, clay pot.
(b) A goatskin flask.
(c) A human head.
(d) A woven, bamboo basket.

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

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

5. Why does Nwakibie trust Okonkwo to farm his yam seeds?
(a) He asks other people of the village if Okonkwo can be trusted.
(b) He figures he can charge Okonkwo for the seeds with interest if the crop failed.
(c) He always believs big, strong men are trustworthy.
(d) He can tell by looking at Okonkwo that he is a hard worker, unlike many young men of the village.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Okoye need to collect a past debt from Unkona?

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

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

4. Why is Umuofia feared by all its neighbors?

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

(see the answer key)

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