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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ezinma offers to bring Okonkwo's chair to the wrestling match for him. Why did he refuse his daughter's offer?
(a) He will be busy with preparing the wrestlers for the match and wouldn't need the chair.
(b) Only grown women carry their husband's chairs.
(c) Men prefer to stand during the wrestling match.
(d) Carrying the chair is a boy's job.

2. How does Ekwefi make the medicine she hopes would cure Ezinma?
(a) She puts a pot on the fire, adding medicinal plants, grasses, leaves, roots and barks. She brought them to a boil being careful that it didn't boil over and lose its power.
(b) She boiled a hen, added yams and nuts to make a medicinal broth for Ezinma to drink.
(c) She grounds kola nuts and bananas together, forming a paste to put on Ezinma's tongue.
(d) She mixes palm-wine and red clay into a medicinal mud and rubs it on Ezinma's face and chest.

3. Who appears in front of Ekwefi as she waits tearfully outside Agbala's cave?
(a) Nwoye's mother
(b) Nwoye
(c) Okonkwo
(d) Chielo

4. Why does Okonkwo beat his second wife, Ojiugo, during the sacred Week of Peace?
(a) She is at a friend's house and does not prepare Okonkwo's afternoon meal.
(b) She cooks a meal that Okonkwo does not like.
(c) She disagrees with what Okonkwo has to say.
(d) She is caught with another man.

5. How many missionaries go to Mbanta?
(a) Three white missionaries
(b) Two white missionaries
(c) Six and one of them is white
(d) Three black missionaries

Short Answer Questions

1. The punishment for breaking the sacred peace changes through the years. What happened to a man that broke the Week of Peace in the past?

2. What happens to the Christian women who go to the stream for water to wash the church with?

3. After speaking with the elders of nine villages, what does Okonkwo tell Ikemefuna about what is going to happen to him?

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

5. Why does Okonkwo worry about his son, Nwoye?

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