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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 woven, bamboo basket.
(b) A goatskin flask.
(c) A colorful, clay pot.
(d) A human head.

4. Ezinma tells her mother, Ekwefi, that her upper eyelid is twitching. What does Ekwefi tell Ezinma the significance of the twitch is?
(a) It means Ezinma will see something.
(b) It means Ezinma will have many children.
(c) It means the rains will come early this year.
(d) It means Ezinma is going to cry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Okonkwo's punishment for committing a "nso-ani" during the Week of Peace?

2. Which men fight in the final wrestling match of the day?

3. Under what circumstances will the people of Umuofia consult Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves?

4. When Okonkwo is angry and cannot speak because of his stutter, how does he get his point across?

5. What is used to inform all the men of the Umuofia to meet in the market place the following morning?

(see the answer key)

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