1. Why do the people of Umuofia observe the Week of Peace?
(a) It is a time to set aside differences with families and neighbors, forgiving them for past offenses.
(b) It is a time for families to develop bonds of love and understanding, making their relationships strong.
(c) Their forefather's ordained that before they planted any crops, they have to observe a week where it is forbidden to say a harsh word to a neighbor. This honors the god of the earth, so that the crops will grow.
(d) It is a week of happy celebration, dancing, and feasting with everyone in the village. It creates a peaceful, cooperative atmosphere that is supposed to last throughout the year.

2. What is the tragedy that takes place during the final burial rites for Ezeudu while the cannon is shot and guns fired?
(a) Another elder of the clan dies in all the excitement.
(b) Ezeudu's wife stabs herself.
(c) Ezeudu's sixteen-year-old son is shot in the arm.
(d) Ezeudu's sixteen-year-old son is killed when Okonkwo's gun explodes.

3. 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?
(a) He was hanged in the marketplace for all to see.
(b) He was exiled from Umuofia, considered to be dead to all the clan.
(c) He was dragged on the ground through the village until dead.
(d) He was tied in the village marketplace and each member of the clan spat on him.

4. 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) The locusts landed on the crops and have to be brushed off the leaves.
(c) A neighbor's child went to the field and started picking the crops.
(d) There is a cow loose in the field eating the crops and the women have to catch it.

5. What ultimatum is dispatched to Mbaino as a consequence of the murder of the woman from Umuofia?
(a) Delivery to Umuofia a year's worth of the yam harvest as a peace offering.
(b) The sacrificial offering of one of the daughters of Mbaino.
(c) Deliver the head of the murderer to the people of Umuofia.
(d) Choose between war or the offer of a young man and a virgin from Mbaino.