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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ezinma tells her mother, Ekwefi, that her upper eyelid is twitching. What does Ekwefi tell Ezinma the significance of the twitch is?
(a) It means Ezinma will see something.
(b) It means the rains will come early this year.
(c) It means Ezinma will have many children.
(d) It means Ezinma is going to cry.

2. How does Ikemenfuna feel after three weeks of illness?
(a) He is still bitter and afraid.
(b) He cries every night after his illness for his mother and sisters.
(c) He gets better and is no longer afraid or sad to be in Okonkwo's home.
(d) He vows revenge on Okonkwo and his family.

3. What is the first trial's dispute set before Evil Forest and the egwugwu?
(a) The case of a mother beating her child to death.
(b) The case of Mgbafo running away from her husband, Uzowulu, because he beat her and caused her to miscarry. Mgbafo's relatives refuse to give him back the bride-price because he beats her.
(c) The case of a man being murdered and left by the side of the road by his brother.
(d) The case of one man stealing yams from the barn of another.

4. Who is the powerful orator that informs the ten thousand men of the emergency facing the nine villages of Umuofia?
(a) Ogbuefi Udo
(b) Ogbuefi Ezeugo
(c) Nwoye
(d) Okoye

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name all children of the clan except Ezinma call their mothers?

3. What is the only way a young man can build a barn of his own if his father has no yams?

4. 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?

5. Obiageli, Nwoye's sister, comes home crying because her water pot is broken. How did her waterpot break?

(see the answer key)

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