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

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

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

3. What happens to twins born in Umuofia?
(a) They are revered as sacred above all other infants.
(b) They are placed in earthenware pots and thrown away in the forest.
(c) They are drowned.
(d) They are considered good luck and raised by the priestess of the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves.

4. Why is the big, ancient silk-cotton tree in the playground considered sacred?
(a) The tree holds the spirits of all the ancestors of the clan.
(b) The tree is believed to have been the first tree in existence.
(c) The tree holds all the spirits of the men who died in wars since the beginning of time.
(d) The spirits of good children waiting to be born live in the tree.

5. What is the strange event that takes place in the village of Ire that Ofoedo tells Okonkwo and Obierika about?
(a) The children of Ire stopped speaking for two days and went into a trance-like state.
(b) All the people in the village of Ire awoke in the night from dreams of disasters to come.
(c) All the yams planted in the fields rotted during the night from a curse sent by evil spirits.
(d) Ogbuefi Ndulue, the oldest man in the Ire village died and upon hearing about it, his wife, Ozoemena, died also.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first man Okonkwo works for as a share-cropper ?

2. What is the name of the boy who wins the wrestling match in the fifteen- to sixteen-year-old age group with a lightning fast move that was never seen before?

3. Why is Umuofia feared by all its neighbors?

4. What are the women's duties after the yams are planted?

5. Why does Okonkwo insult Osugo at a meeting by calling him a woman?

(see the answer key)

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