1. How does Okonkwo react to the disastrous growing season that destroy all his yams and the yams of his people?
(a) He feels he can survive anything, since he has survived this disastrous year.
(b) He gives up being a farmer, and begins looking for a new trade.
(c) His heart is broken from the loss of his crop, leaving him depressed and suicidal.
(d) He cries and sinks into despair.

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

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

4. Why does Okoye need to collect a past debt from Unkona?
(a) To help pay for the expensive Idemili title ceremony.
(b) Okoye needs money to help him overcome his failures.
(c) To buy yams for his three wives.
(d) To buy a new ogene, the musical instrument Okoye played.

5. What is used to inform all the men of the Umuofia to meet in the market place the following morning?
(a) A choir of people singing the message.
(b) The beating of drums in the night.
(c) A group of armed warriors.
(d) The town crier beating on his hollow, metal ogene.