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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 beating drums announce that there is a winner in the wrestling match.
(d) The drums beat as each wrestler is thrown to the ground.

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 throws the great wrestler, Amalinze the Cat.
(d) He plays his flute in the village after the harvest.

3. What is the shameful death Unoka endures?
(a) Beheading because of his many unpaid debts.
(b) Drowning in his own vomit after too much palm-wine.
(c) Starvation due to his many failed crops.
(d) Dying of the abomination of swollen stomach and limbs, never to be buried in the earth.

4. Nwoye's mother calls Ezinma "Ezigbo" when she brings the fire to Nwoye's mother's hut. What does "Ezigbo" mean?
(a) Good work
(b) Good girl
(c) The good one
(d) Helpful child

5. How does Nwoye's mother treat Ikemenfuna?
(a) She is very kind to him and treats him like one of her own children.
(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 makes him work like a slave.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the big, ancient silk-cotton tree in the playground considered sacred?

2. How long is Ikemenfuna in Okonkwo's care?

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

4. Ezinma tells her mother, Ekwefi, that her upper eyelid is twitching. What does Ekwefi tell Ezinma the significance of the twitch is?

5. How many men are in each of the two teams of wrestlers who face each other in the wrestling ring?

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