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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 has no patience with unsuccessful men.
(d) He plays his flute in the village after the harvest.

2. 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 play enacting the planting of yams put on by the children of all the villages in Umuofia.
(b) The gathering of all the village musicians for singing and dancing.
(c) The great wrestling match between Okonkwo's village and their neighbors.
(d) A gathering in the marketplace for the preparation of the new yams for planting.

3. During the rainy season, how do the people of the village pass the time?
(a) They prepare yam seeds for next year's fields.
(b) They spend many hours praying to the gods for a bountiful harvest.
(c) They spent time in the hut, listening to flute music, weaving baskets, and sleeping.
(d) In each hut, children sit by their mother's cooking fire and tell stories, or sit with their father, roasting and eating maize.

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 bursts out laughing.
(c) He tells Okoye that he would be paid before anyone else.
(d) He offers kola nuts as repayment instead of money.

5. What is a man who holds the ozo title forbidden to do?
(a) Drink from the tapping of short palm trees.
(b) Talk to a single woman in public.
(c) Wrestle during the Feast of the New Yam.
(d) Tap the tall palm trees.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Okonkwo was a boy, his father, Unoka, consults Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills, about why his crops always fail.. What reply did the Oracle give?

3. How does Ezinma, the daughter of Okonkwo's second wife, bring fire to Nwoye's mother's hut?

4. What is the custom in the village of Obodoani if a man dies during the Week of Peace?

5. What is the significance of the beating of drums in the village playground, the ilo, where all the great ceremonies and dances of the village take place?

(see the answer key)

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