Things Fall Apart Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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Things Fall Apart Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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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 get the bags of cowries that he brings to Okonkwo?
(a) He collects the money from the clan members who favor Okonkwo.
(b) He gives Okonkwo some of the cowries he saved through the years.
(c) He sells Okonkwo's yams and seed yams.
(d) He sells Okonkwo's compound and brings him the money.

2. Who is the powerful orator that informs the ten thousand men of the emergency facing the nine villages of Umuofia?
(a) Ogbuefi Ezeugo
(b) Nwoye
(c) Ogbuefi Udo
(d) Okoye

3. The Ibo people consider conversation to be very important. What form of conversation do they regard the most highly?
(a) Orations
(b) Proverbs
(c) Sarcasm
(d) Rhyming

4. Nwoye's mother calls Ezinma "Ezigbo" when she brings the fire to Nwoye's mother's hut. What does "Ezigbo" mean?
(a) Good girl
(b) Good work
(c) Helpful child
(d) The good one

5. 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?
(a) Ezinma's iyi-uwa, a smooth pebble wrapped in a dirty rag which links Ezinma to the spirit world. It is believed that if the iyi-uwa is found and destroyed, Ezinma will not die.
(b) A basket of kola nuts which were buried when Ezinma was born to trapped evil spirits. It was supposed to be dug up after a time and burned, so the evil spirits would not kill Ezinma.
(c) A sacred amulet that the priestess made for Ezinma the day she was born. Ezinma was to wear it around her neck until the day she died.
(d) The cloth which was used to clean Ezinma after she was born. It was buried after the birth as a good luck charm that would keep the infant safe from harm. After digging it up, the child was to be washed with it once again to stay safe.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can an observer tell if a communal ceremony is only for the men of the village?

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

3. What are the women's duties after the yams are planted?

4. How does Ekwefi make the medicine she hopes would cure Ezinma?

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

(see the answer key)

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