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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ultimatum is dispatched to Mbaino as a consequence of the murder of the woman from Umuofia?
(a) Choose between war or the offer of a young man and a virgin from Mbaino.
(b) Delivery to Umuofia a year's worth of the yam harvest as a peace offering.
(c) The sacrificial offering of one of the daughters of Mbaino.
(d) Deliver the head of the murderer to the people of Umuofia.

2. What are the traditional events when night falls and it is time to end Obierika's daughter's uri?
(a) The leftover wine is divided into flasks for the guests to take home.
(b) The women gather all the pots, filling them with leftover food and give each guest a pot to take home.
(c) The singers sing a song of praise to Obierika for such a wonderful celebration.
(d) The elders sit in a circle while singers sing each man's praise. Then the guest's rise to go and the bride is to leave with them for seven weeks.

3. What does Uchendu, the younger brother of Okonkwo's mother, give to Okonkwo after he comes looking for refuge?
(a) A plot of ground, and two or three pieces of land
(b) A basket of yams and palm-wine for his travels
(c) Advice on living in the forest
(d) A gun to protect him and his family during their exile

4. The first day of the new year is celebrated with feasting and fellowship. What takes place on the second day of the new year?
(a) A gathering in the marketplace for the preparation of the new yams for planting.
(b) The great wrestling match between Okonkwo's village and their neighbors.
(c) A play enacting the planting of yams put on by the children of all the villages in Umuofia.
(d) The gathering of all the village musicians for singing and dancing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Okonkwo afraid will happen to his male children after he dies?

2. What is the one passion that rules Okonkwo's life?

3. What do the people of Mbanta expect to happen to the missionaries when they start building their church?

4. How are the children of the village prepared for the Feast of the New Yam?

5. One night, the storytelling of Okonkwo 's wives and children stops because the priestess, Chielo is shouting in a high-pitched voice. What does she tell Okonkwo?

(see the answer key)

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