Things Fall Apart Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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Things Fall Apart Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ikemenfuna feel after three weeks of illness?
(a) He gets better and is no longer afraid or sad to be in Okonkwo's home.
(b) He cries every night after his illness for his mother and sisters.
(c) He is still bitter and afraid.
(d) He vows revenge on Okonkwo and his family.

2. Why do all the women abandon preparing the food for the uri and rush off to the Obierika's crop field?
(a) A fire broke out in the field and the women have to stomp it out.
(b) There is a cow loose in the field eating the crops and the women have to catch it.
(c) The locusts landed on the crops and have to be brushed off the leaves.
(d) A neighbor's child went to the field and started picking the crops.

3. What drives Okonkwo into a rage on the first day of the festival, leading him to beat his second wife, Ekwefi, and almost kill her with a gun?
(a) Okonkwo finds that his second wife has not prepared her children in the traditional fashion of the clan for the festival.
(b) Okonkwo is angry because his second wife has not scrubbed the walls of her hut with red earth, and has neglected the rituals of the people.
(c) She burns the vegetable soup she is preparing for the festival.
(d) He believes his wife killed a banana tree in the compound, even though it is still alive. She also comments on his inability to shoot well.

4. Okonkwo's friend, Obierika, is celebrating his daughter's uri. Why does this day put the entire neighborhood into a festive air?
(a) It is the day his daughter's suitor will pay the bride-price and everyone will celebrate.
(b) It is the day when his daughter's suitor brings palm-wine to her parents and her entire group of kinsmen, umunna. Everyone is invited, but the central figures are the bride and her mother.
(c) It is the day his daughter will practice for the wedding ceremony, followed by a celebration.
(d) It is the day his daughtor's suitor brings the whole neighborhood to see the hut where he and his bride will be living.

5. What does the Abame clan do to the first white man that comes to their village?
(a) They rub his body with palm oil and adorn him with beads, thinking he is a god.
(b) They kill him and tie his iron horse to the sacred silk-cotton tree.
(c) They touch his white skin because they have never seen anything like it before.
(d) They offer vegetable soup and palm-wine to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Okonkwo's punishment for committing a "nso-ani" during the Week of Peace?

2. Why does Unkona's neighbor, Okoye, visit him?

3. How does Okonkwo act for two days after Ikemefuna's death?

4. What is the emergency that the great orator announces at the meeting in the marketplace?

5. What is the first thing Okonkwo plans to do when he returns to his clan?

(see the answer key)

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