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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ekwefi do after Chielo carries Ezinma away on her back?
(a) She runs into her hut in despair.
(b) She follows Chielo.
(c) She runs to the other wives for solace.
(d) She screams at Okonkwo to go bring Ezinma back.

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

3. How is the weather during the first growing season that Okonkwo starts share-cropping for Nwakibie?
(a) The beginning of the season is poor weather for growing yams, but the second planting of the season grows huge yams, sweet and plump.
(b) Some good days, and some bad: the yams grow, but not to their potential. Some days were too hot and some rains too severe.
(c) The worst in memory: late rains and scorching sun kill the yams, then torrential downpours wash the seeds away.
(d) The best growing weather ever: yams flourish with the nightly rains and sunny days.

4. Obiageli, Nwoye's sister, comes home crying because her water pot is broken. How did her waterpot break?
(a) She was pushed by Nwoye's younger brother and fell with her pot, spilling the water and smashing the pot.
(b) She tripped over a stone in the pathway, and fell with her water pot.
(c) She overfilled the pot with water and was unable to carry the weight. The pot tipped and fell.
(d) She was showing off, swaying her waist and the pot fell.

5. 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) Men prefer to stand during the wrestling match.
(c) He will be busy with preparing the wrestlers for the match and wouldn't need the chair.
(d) Carrying the chair is a boy's job.

Short Answer Questions

1. What hopes does Okonkwo have for his son, Nwoye's , future?

2. What does Okonkwo bring with him to share with the wealthy Nwakibie and his family before asking for yam seeds and share cropping privileges?

3. When Okonkwo was a boy, his father, Unoka, consults Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills, about why his crops always fail.. What reply did the Oracle give?

4. Why does Okonkwo beat his second wife, Ojiugo, during the sacred Week of Peace?

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

(see the answer key)

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