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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the priestess of Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves, in real life?
(a) Anasi, Okonkwo's first wife
(b) Chielo, a widow with two children
(c) Noywe's mother
(d) Ekwefi, the second wife of Okonkwo

2. How long is Ikemenfuna in Okonkwo's care?
(a) Twelve years
(b) Three years
(c) Three months
(d) Two days

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 are the crops that are considered women's crops by the people of Umuofia?
(a) Yams, kola nuts, greens
(b) Coco-yams, beans, cassava
(c) Gourds, bananas, oil bean
(d) Palms, bitter-leaf, foo foo

5. How are the children of the village prepared for the Feast of the New Yam?
(a) Their heads are shaved in beautiful patterns.
(b) Their bodies are rubbed with palm oil, and their hair is decorated with kola nut shells.
(c) Their entire bodies are painted with cam wood and no clothing is worn to the festival.
(d) They are washed in the riverbed three times the day before the festival, and then dressed in simple robes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Okonkwo's twelve-year-old son, Nwoye, causing him great anxiety?

2. What is the one passion that rules Okonkwo's life?

3. What is the shameful death Unoka endures?

4. Okonkwo is very prosperous, owning a large compound with many huts, and an abundance of food. Ikemefuna is given to Okonkwo to live with him until the clan decides Ikemefuna's fate. How does Ikemefuna react to living with Okonkwo?

5. How is the weather during the first growing season that Okonkwo starts share-cropping for Nwakibie?

(see the answer key)

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