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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the emergency that the great orator announces at the meeting in the marketplace?
(a) The yam harvest of one of the village celebrities is stolen from his barn.
(b) The powerful medicine woman of Umuofia dies during the night.
(c) The warriors of Mbaino raid one of the villages of Umuofia.
(d) The wife of Ogbuefi Udo is murdered in Mbaino when she goes to market.

2. Why doesn't Okonkwo have any patience with his father?
(a) Unkona is overly ambitious and driven to earn the highest titles in the land.
(b) Unkona spoils his wife and children, providing them with too much food and money.
(c) Unkona is a great warrior who is always away at war.
(d) Unoka is lazy, a debtor, and a failure.

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

4. How does Unoka react when Okoye asks him to repay the two hundred cowries owed to him?
(a) He promises to repay the money without delay.
(b) He tells Okoye that he would be paid before anyone else.
(c) He offers kola nuts as repayment instead of money.
(d) He bursts out laughing.

5. What does every man and his family do after the Week of Peace?
(a) Has a feast to celebrate with each other.
(b) Cuts bush to make new farms, burns the bush and flies kites over the burning fields.
(c) Gathers in the marketplace to visit with neighbors.
(d) Plays flutes, dances and sings before planting the crops.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the big, ancient silk-cotton tree in the playground considered sacred?

2. How does Okonkwo react to the disastrous growing season that destroy all his yams and the yams of his people?

3. How many missionaries go to Mbanta?

4. What does Okagbue, the medicine man, dig up from under the orange tree that makes the people of the village believe that Ezinma will live to adulthood?

5. What does the priestess do when she brings Ezinma out of Agbala's cave?

(see the answer key)

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