1. What is the emergency that the great orator announces at the meeting in the marketplace?
(a) The powerful medicine woman of Umuofia dies during the night.
(b) The wife of Ogbuefi Udo is murdered in Mbaino when she goes to market.
(c) The warriors of Mbaino raid one of the villages of Umuofia.
(d) The yam harvest of one of the village celebrities is stolen from his barn.

2. When Okonkwo was a boy, his father, Unoka, consults Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills, about why his crops always fail.. What reply did the Oracle give?
(a) That Unoka sows his yams on exhausted land rather than making the effort to clear new land.
(b) That he angers his ancestors and they plague his land.
(c) That he should stay home and offer sacrifices to the gods.
(d) That Unoka has offended the gods and that is why his crop fail.

3. Why is the big, ancient silk-cotton tree in the playground considered sacred?
(a) The tree holds the spirits of all the ancestors of the clan.
(b) The tree holds all the spirits of the men who died in wars since the beginning of time.
(c) The spirits of good children waiting to be born live in the tree.
(d) The tree is believed to have been the first tree in existence.

4. What are the things that Okonkwo fears most?
(a) Failure, weakness, and himself.
(b) The forest and magic.
(c) Forces of nature.
(d) Evil and capricious gods.

5. Where does the powerful Oracle of the Hills, Agbala, live?
(a) Through a round hole in the side of the hill leading to a dimly lit cave.
(b) In the treetops with all the climbing creatures of Umuofia.
(c) Deep underground with the creatures of the soil, beneath the hills and all things that live above the ground.
(d) In a large, handsomely endowed compound in the hills filled with the gifts from those asking for a consultation.