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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the Christian women who go to the stream for water to wash the church with?
(a) They are allowed to get water, but can not speak to anyone.
(b) They are given water but are told it is the last time.
(c) They are chased away from the stream and whipped.
(d) They are captured and brought to the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves.

2. Okonkwo is very prosperous, owning a large compound with many huts, and an abundance of food. Ikemefuna is given to Okonkwo to live with him until the clan decides Ikemefuna's fate. How does Ikemefuna react to living with Okonkwo?
(a) He is afraid and does not understand the circumstances.
(b) He is pleased to be living with such a powerful, wealthy man.
(c) He hopes to learn how to become a great farmer and warrior from Okonkwo.
(d) He is thankful that he will never be hungry living with Okonkwo, his three wives, and eight children.

3. How does Ekwefi and Ezinma harvest the cassava for the feast?
(a) They pick the cassava off the tops of the trees.
(b) They cut the cassava off the trees with machetes.
(c) They shake every tree with a long stick, bend down to cut the stem, and dig out the tuber.
(d) The shake the tree, and the cassava fall to the ground.

4. Where does the powerful Oracle of the Hills, Agbala, live?
(a) In the treetops with all the climbing creatures of Umuofia.
(b) Through a round hole in the side of the hill leading to a dimly lit cave.
(c) In a large, handsomely endowed compound in the hills filled with the gifts from those asking for a consultation.
(d) Deep underground with the creatures of the soil, beneath the hills and all things that live above the ground.

5. Ekwefi awakes Okonkwo early in the morning pounding on his door. What is she anxious to tell him?
(a) All the men of the village are to meet in the marketplace immediately.
(b) Their daughter, Ezinma is sick and dying.
(c) The yam fields are on fire.
(d) Nwoye's mother is sick and calling for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nwakibie trust Okonkwo to farm his yam seeds?

2. What does Okonkwo hope his sons will be initiated into when his family returns from exile?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. What is used to inform all the men of the Umuofia to meet in the market place the following morning?

(see the answer key)

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