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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When is the only time that Unkona is not haggard and mournful?
(a) After paying off his debts.
(b) When fighting for his village against the village of Mbaino.
(c) When drinking and playing his flute.
(d) When providing food for his wife and children.

2. What drives Okonkwo into a rage on the first day of the festival, leading him to beat his second wife, Ekwefi, and almost kill her with a gun?
(a) He believes his wife killed a banana tree in the compound, even though it is still alive. She also comments on his inability to shoot well.
(b) She burns the vegetable soup she is preparing for the festival.
(c) Okonkwo is angry because his second wife has not scrubbed the walls of her hut with red earth, and has neglected the rituals of the people.
(d) Okonkwo finds that his second wife has not prepared her children in the traditional fashion of the clan for the festival.

3. Nwoye's mother calls Ezinma "Ezigbo" when she brings the fire to Nwoye's mother's hut. What does "Ezigbo" mean?
(a) Good work
(b) Good girl
(c) Helpful child
(d) The good one

4. Okonkwo of Umuofia is the emissary of war to Mbaino. What does Mbaino give him as an offering for the murder of the woman from Umuofia?
(a) One of Mbaino's most powerful warriors.
(b) A large monetary payment for the people of Umofia.
(c) The wife of the murderer.
(d) A fifteen-year-old boy named Ikemefuna and a young virgin to replace the murdered woman.

5. How long is Ikemenfuna in Okonkwo's care?
(a) Two days
(b) Twelve years
(c) Three months
(d) Three years

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Okonkwo insult Osugo at a meeting by calling him a woman?

2. How are the children of the village prepared for the Feast of the New Yam?

3. What is the significance of the beating of drums in the village playground, the ilo, where all the great ceremonies and dances of the village take place?

4. What is the custom in the village of Obodoani if a man dies during the Week of Peace?

5. What are the crops that are considered women's crops by the people of Umuofia?

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