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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Okonkwo is angry and cannot speak because of his stutter, how does he get his point across?
(a) Uses his fists against the person who angers him.
(b) Uses hand motions to relay his message.
(c) Walks away, returning when he is calmer.
(d) Takes a deep breath and gets control of himself.

2. As Ekwefi and Okonkwo wait outside of Agbala's cave for Ezinma's return, what does Ekwefi think about?
(a) She thinks about how she and Okonkwo can defeat Agbala.
(b) She thinks about what must be happening to Ezinma in the cave.
(c) She thinks about when she and Okonkwo were young, and how she left her first husband to be with Okonkwo.
(d) She thinks she will take Ezinma and move away from the village.

3. Why does Okonkwo beat his second wife, Ojiugo, during the sacred Week of Peace?
(a) She cooks a meal that Okonkwo does not like.
(b) She disagrees with what Okonkwo has to say.
(c) She is at a friend's house and does not prepare Okonkwo's afternoon meal.
(d) She is caught with another man.

4. What does the law state in Umuofia if a woman runs away from her husband?
(a) She is to be killed and left unburied for the vultures and wild animals.
(b) Her bride-price must be returned to the husband.
(c) She must be left in the forest to die.
(d) Her husband is allowed to go get her, dragging her back home by the hair.

5. 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?
(a) Ikemefuna
(b) Maduka
(c) Nwoye
(d) Obierika

Short Answer Questions

1. Okonkwo is sitting in his obi with Ikemefuna and Nwoye, eating dried locusts when Ogbuefi Ezeudu comes with a message. What is the message?

2. What is the first trial's dispute set before Evil Forest and the egwugwu?

3. What is the shameful death Unoka endures?

4. 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?

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

(see the answer key)

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