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. What happens in Umuofia the next time Obierika comes to visit Okonkwo, two years later?
(a) More white men come, and the clan kills them.
(b) The entire village coverts to the white man's religion.
(c) The missionaries come, building a church and send evangalists to other towns and villages.
(d) The white men wipe out another clan of Umuofia.

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

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

4. Who is the priestess of Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves, in real life?
(a) Ekwefi, the second wife of Okonkwo
(b) Chielo, a widow with two children
(c) Noywe's mother
(d) Anasi, Okonkwo's first wife

5. Obierika's daughter, Akueke, is sixteen, just the right age for marrying. How does her suitor and his relatives determine if she is ripe for marriage?
(a) They study her body, which is decorated and painted in the traditional way: cam oil, black patterns on the skin, black necklace, red and yellow bangles, and waist beads.
(b) They observe how much she eats of the food that is set out before her, and how delicately she chews her food.
(c) They have her stand before them and recite a marriage poem while dressed in flowing robes.
(d) They feel how silky her hair is, and pinch her upper arms for plumpness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do men and women look forward to the Feast of the New Yam?

2. Where does Obierika send one of his relatives to get a fat goat to give to his in-laws during the uri?

3. Why is Okonkwo's twelve-year-old son, Nwoye, causing him great anxiety?

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

5. What is the name all children of the clan except Ezinma call their mothers?

(see the answer key)

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