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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) Failure, weakness, and himself.
(b) Forces of nature.
(c) The forest and magic.
(d) Evil and capricious gods.

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

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

5. How does Unoka react when Okoye asks him to repay the two hundred cowries owed to him?
(a) He promises to repay the money without delay.
(b) He bursts out laughing.
(c) He tells Okoye that he would be paid before anyone else.
(d) He offers kola nuts as repayment instead of money.

Short Answer Questions

1. While talking with Okoye about the war, Unkona changes the subject to which topic?

2. The Ibo people consider conversation to be very important. What form of conversation do they regard the most highly?

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

4. Okonkwo is very prosperous, owning a large compound with many huts, and an abundance of food. Ikemefuna is given to Okonkwo to live with him until the clan decides Ikemefuna's fate. How does Ikemefuna react to living with Okonkwo?

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

(see the answer key)

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