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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ezinma offers to bring Okonkwo's chair to the wrestling match for him. Why did he refuse his daughter's offer?
(a) Only grown women carry their husband's chairs.
(b) Carrying the chair is a boy's job.
(c) Men prefer to stand during the wrestling match.
(d) He will be busy with preparing the wrestlers for the match and wouldn't need the chair.

2. 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 makes him work like a slave.
(d) She ignores him, resenting that he is someone else's child.

3. Why does Okonkwo insult Osugo at a meeting by calling him a woman?
(a) Okonkwo calls Osugo a woman because Osugo has no titles and contradicted what Okonkwo had been saying.
(b) Osugo is complaining and whining.
(c) Osugo is talking in a feminine voice.
(d) Osugo is making womanly hand gestures during the meeting.

4. Why does Unkona change the subject to music when he and Oybe are discussing the impending war with the village of Mbaino?
(a) Unkona is afraid to think about people of his village being hurt.
(b) Unkona wants to stay home to take care of his yam harvest.
(c) Unkona is a coward and can't stand the sight of blood.
(d) Unkona knows he would have to leave his family to fight in the war.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What drives Okonkwo into a rage on the first day of the festival, leading him to beat his second wife, Ekwefi, and almost kill her with a gun?

2. How do the women of the clan prepare for the Feast of the New Yam?

3. How does Ezinma, the daughter of Okonkwo's second wife, bring fire to Nwoye's mother's hut?

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

5. Which of the spectators of the wrestling match are allowed to sit around the huge circle of the wrestling ring?

(see the answer key)

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