1. Why do men and women look forward to the Feast of the New Yam?
(a) It is a festival of dancing around the new yams of the season and eating the rest of the old yams for the previous year.
(b) It is a feast of yam stew made from all the leftover yams of the past harvest, which is divided among all the people.
(c) It is the beginning of the season of plenty--the new year. It begins with huge quantities of fresh yams, yam foo foo and vegetable soup.
(d) The men and women cook and feed each other the yams from the previous harvest so that no food will be wasted.

2. 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?
(a) The drums beat as each wrestler is thrown to the ground.
(b) The beating drums announce that there is a winner in the wrestling match.
(c) The beating of the drums means that the wrestling match will begin at noon.
(d) The drums play the wrestling dance in preparation for the wrestling match at sundown.

3. How does Nwoye's mother treat Ikemenfuna?
(a) She mistreats him, letting him go for days with nothing to eat.
(b) She is very kind to him and treats him like one of her own children.
(c) She ignores him, resenting that he is someone else's child.
(d) She makes him work like a slave.

4. What is the one passion that rules Okonkwo's life?
(a) To be affluent in money, wives, and children.
(b) To obtain more wealth than anyone else in Umuofia.
(c) To make sure his barn was always filled with yams.
(d) To hate everything his father loved.

5. During the rainy season, how do the people of the village pass the time?
(a) In each hut, children sit by their mother's cooking fire and tell stories, or sit with their father, roasting and eating maize.
(b) They prepare yam seeds for next year's fields.
(c) They spent time in the hut, listening to flute music, weaving baskets, and sleeping.
(d) They spend many hours praying to the gods for a bountiful harvest.