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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Okonkwo mourn when he returns to his clan?
(a) The clan is poor.
(b) The clan is breaking up and falling apart.
(c) The clan is too aggressive and angry.
(d) The clan is malnourished and weak.

2. Where does Okonkwo bring his family after being banished from his village?
(a) To live in a cave in the hills
(b) To an enemy village asking to be accepted
(c) To wander the forests and live off the land
(d) To his mother's kinsmen in Mbanta

3. Why does Unkona change the subject to music when he and Oybe are discussing the impending war with the village of Mbaino?
(a) Unkona wants to stay home to take care of his yam harvest.
(b) Unkona is afraid to think about people of his village being hurt.
(c) Unkona is a coward and can't stand the sight of blood.
(d) Unkona knows he would have to leave his family to fight in the war.

4. What does Okonkwo hope his sons will be initiated into when his family returns from exile?
(a) Sacred Yam Seed society
(b) The Nidichi
(c) The Sacred Python society
(d) Ozo society

5. What is used to inform all the men of the Umuofia to meet in the market place the following morning?
(a) The town crier beating on his hollow, metal ogene.
(b) A group of armed warriors.
(c) A choir of people singing the message.
(d) The beating of drums in the night.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Okonkwo react to the disastrous growing season that destroy all his yams and the yams of his people?

2. Why does Okonkwo insult Osugo at a meeting by calling him a woman?

3. What does Okonkwo feel the greatest obstacle to going to war against the white man is?

4. What is the strange event that takes place in the village of Ire that Ofoedo tells Okonkwo and Obierika about?

5. Why is Umuofia feared by all its neighbors?

(see the answer key)

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