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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the ekwe, a hollowed out wooden instrument and the blast of the cannon signify to the nine villages of Umuofia?
(a) The death of a man
(b) The beginning of a festival
(c) The beginning of war
(d) The birth of a child

2. 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 she will take Ezinma and move away from the village.
(c) She thinks about when she and Okonkwo were young, and how she left her first husband to be with Okonkwo.
(d) She thinks about what must be happening to Ezinma in the cave.

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

4. What are the crops that are considered women's crops by the people of Umuofia?
(a) Gourds, bananas, oil bean
(b) Palms, bitter-leaf, foo foo
(c) Yams, kola nuts, greens
(d) Coco-yams, beans, cassava

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do all the women abandon preparing the food for the uri and rush off to the Obierika's crop field?

2. Why does Obierika go to visit Okonkwo a second time, two years after the first?

3. Ezinma tells her mother, Ekwefi, that her upper eyelid is twitching. What does Ekwefi tell Ezinma the significance of the twitch is?

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

5. What do the rulers and elders of Mbanta decide to do about the Christians after one of the converts kills the Sacred Python?

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