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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While talking with Okoye about the war, Unkona changes the subject to which topic?
(a) Ancestral feasts
(b) Music
(c) Heavy rains
(d) Farming

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

3. 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) Some good days, and some bad: the yams grow, but not to their potential. Some days were too hot and some rains too severe.
(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) The best growing weather ever: yams flourish with the nightly rains and sunny days.

4. 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 human head.
(c) A goatskin flask.
(d) A woven, bamboo basket.

5. Ezinma offers to bring Okonkwo's chair to the wrestling match for him. Why did he refuse his daughter's offer?
(a) Only grown women carry their husband's chairs.
(b) Carrying the chair is a boy's job.
(c) He will be busy with preparing the wrestlers for the match and wouldn't need the chair.
(d) Men prefer to stand during the wrestling match.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Okonkwo bring with him to share with the wealthy Nwakibie and his family before asking for yam seeds and share cropping privileges?

2. Why does Okonkwo beat his second wife, Ojiugo, during the sacred Week of Peace?

3. What is the festival that gives thanks to Ani, the earth goddess and source of fertility?

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

5. How does Ezinma, the daughter of Okonkwo's second wife, bring fire to Nwoye's mother's hut?

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