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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the women of the clan prepare for the Feast of the New Yam?
(a) They scrub the walls and huts with red earth, draw patterns on them in white, yellow and green, paint themselves with cam wood, and draw black patterns on their stomach and backs.
(b) They gather in the marketplace to share all their clothing, jewelry and sandals with one another. They wear each others belongings to prove to the goddess, Ani, that they are worthy people.
(c) They decorate robes with intricate patterns made of colored beans, plaite each others hair, color their faces with red clay, and make veils to cover their faces during the festival.
(d) They cleanse their bodies, wear a simple robe and sandles, and scrub their faces. They are to go to the festival free of all paint, jewelry, or ornamentation of any kind.

2. How does eighteen-year-old, Okonkwo, bring honor to his village?
(a) He has a barn full of yams.
(b) He throws the great wrestler, Amalinze the Cat.
(c) He plays his flute in the village after the harvest.
(d) He has no patience with unsuccessful men.

3. What are the women's duties after the yams are planted?
(a) They make meals for the men working in the fields.
(b) They plant maize, melons, and beans between the mounds. They also weeded the farm three times per planting season.
(c) They make bamboo woven hats for the farmers working in the hot sun.
(d) They plant kola nuts between the yams, and weed the yams every day.

4. Why does Unkona change the subject to music when he and Oybe are discussing the impending war with the village of Mbaino?
(a) Unkona knows he would have to leave his family to fight in the war.
(b) Unkona is a coward and can't stand the sight of blood.
(c) Unkona wants to stay home to take care of his yam harvest.
(d) Unkona is afraid to think about people of his village being hurt.

5. What news does Obierika bring to Okonkwo and Uchendu about the Abame clan?
(a) The clan has been wiped out by white men who surrounded the market and shot everyone.
(b) The clan gave five of their daughters to the white men who came to the village.
(c) The clan befriended the white men who arrived and now were affluent.
(d) The clan offered the white men yam seeds, so they could build their own farms.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ekwefi awakes Okonkwo early in the morning pounding on his door. What is she anxious to tell him?

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

3. Every man learns the language of the ekwe. How does the wooden instrument let the people know exactly who has died?

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

5. Why do the people say "Mother is Supreme" when the man is the head of the family and his wives and children are obedient to him?

(see the answer key)

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