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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Obierika send one of his relatives to get a fat goat to give to his in-laws during the uri?
(a) The goat farm in the village
(b) To the hills where wild goats roam free
(c) To a neighboring goat herder known for his fat goats
(d) The wonderful market in Umuike

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

3. As the drums sound and the flutes blast, what appears out of the egwugwu house?
(a) The spirits of the ancestors emerge, followed by nine egwugwu, the masked spirits of the nine villages
(b) The Oracle of the Hills and the Caves
(c) The priestess
(d) The medicine man

4. Who says that the Abame were fools and had been warned of danger, and that they should have brought guns and machetes with them to the market?
(a) Uchendu
(b) Obierika
(c) Okonkwo
(d) Nwoye

5. What is Okonkwo afraid will happen to his male children after he dies?
(a) They will be killed by neighboring enemies.
(b) They will never go back to their homeland again.
(c) They will forget the lessons Okonkwo taught them.
(d) They will follow in Nwoye's footsteps and abandon the gods of their ancestors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the priestess of Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves, in real life?

2. Why does Unkona change the subject to music when he and Oybe are discussing the impending war with the village of Mbaino?

3. While talking with Okoye about the war, Unkona changes the subject to which topic?

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. Why does Uchendu say, "Never kill a man who says nothing" when Obierika tells them about the white man the Abame killed?

(see the answer key)

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