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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Nwoye
(b) Okonkwo
(c) Uchendu
(d) Obierika

2. What is the one passion that rules Okonkwo's life?
(a) To obtain more wealth than anyone else in Umuofia.
(b) To hate everything his father loved.
(c) To be affluent in money, wives, and children.
(d) To make sure his barn was always filled with yams.

3. How many pots of wine do Obierika's in-laws brink to his home for the uri?
(a) Fifty
(b) Twenty
(c) Twenty-five
(d) None

4. What is the first trial's dispute set before Evil Forest and the egwugwu?
(a) The case of a mother beating her child to death.
(b) The case of Mgbafo running away from her husband, Uzowulu, because he beat her and caused her to miscarry. Mgbafo's relatives refuse to give him back the bride-price because he beats her.
(c) The case of one man stealing yams from the barn of another.
(d) The case of a man being murdered and left by the side of the road by his brother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Umuofia feared by all its neighbors?

2. As the drums sound and the flutes blast, what appears out of the egwugwu house?

3. What happens to twins born in Umuofia?

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?

5. Okonkwo of Umuofia is the emissary of war to Mbaino. What does Mbaino give him as an offering for the murder of the woman from Umuofia?

(see the answer key)

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