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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Ekwefi and Okonkwo wait outside of Agbala's cave for Ezinma's return, what does Ekwefi think about?
(a) She thinks about how she and Okonkwo can defeat Agbala.
(b) She thinks about what must be happening to Ezinma in the cave.
(c) She thinks she will take Ezinma and move away from the village.
(d) She thinks about when she and Okonkwo were young, and how she left her first husband to be with Okonkwo.

2. Who says that the Abame were fools and had been warned of danger, and that they should have brought guns and machetes with them to the market?
(a) Obierika
(b) Uchendu
(c) Okonkwo
(d) Nwoye

3. Who is the powerful orator that informs the ten thousand men of the emergency facing the nine villages of Umuofia?
(a) Ogbuefi Ezeugo
(b) Okoye
(c) Ogbuefi Udo
(d) Nwoye

4. 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) 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.
(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) Okonkwo finds that his second wife has not prepared her children in the traditional fashion of the clan for the festival.

5. Okonkwo and the men of Umuofia take Ikemefuna deep into the forest and kill him with machetes. Who gives the final thrust of the machete that ends Ikemefuna's life?
(a) Okonkwo
(b) Nwoye
(c) Ogbuefi Ezendu
(d) Okafo

Short Answer Questions

1. How can an observer tell if a communal ceremony is only for the men of the village?

2. What does every man and his family do after the Week of Peace?

3. Ekwefi awakes Okonkwo early in the morning pounding on his door. What is she anxious to tell him?

4. What is the name of the boy who wins the wrestling match in the fifteen- to sixteen-year-old age group with a lightning fast move that was never seen before?

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

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