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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the traditional events when night falls and it is time to end Obierika's daughter's uri?
(a) The elders sit in a circle while singers sing each man's praise. Then the guest's rise to go and the bride is to leave with them for seven weeks.
(b) The singers sing a song of praise to Obierika for such a wonderful celebration.
(c) The women gather all the pots, filling them with leftover food and give each guest a pot to take home.
(d) The leftover wine is divided into flasks for the guests to take home.

2. What is the strange event that takes place in the village of Ire that Ofoedo tells Okonkwo and Obierika about?
(a) Ogbuefi Ndulue, the oldest man in the Ire village died and upon hearing about it, his wife, Ozoemena, died also.
(b) All the yams planted in the fields rotted during the night from a curse sent by evil spirits.
(c) The children of Ire stopped speaking for two days and went into a trance-like state.
(d) All the people in the village of Ire awoke in the night from dreams of disasters to come.

3. How are the six leaders of Umuofia treated while in captivity?
(a) They are whipped every day.
(b) Their heads are shaved. They are given nothing to eat or drink for three days, and are not allowed to go out and relieve themselves.
(c) They are treated with kindness and respect.
(d) They are given anything they asked for.

4. What is the first trial's dispute set before Evil Forest and the egwugwu?
(a) The case of one man stealing yams from the barn of another.
(b) The case of a mother beating her child to death.
(c) The case of a man being murdered and left by the side of the road by his brother.
(d) The case of Mgbafo running away from her husband, Uzowulu, because he beat her and caused her to miscarry. Mgbafo's relatives refuse to give him back the bride-price because he beats her.

5. What is the name of the man that the ekwe announces to Umuofia?
(a) Ezeudu
(b) Uzowulu
(c) Maduka
(d) Obierika

Short Answer Questions

1. Which men fight in the final wrestling match of the day?

2. What is used to inform all the men of the Umuofia to meet in the market place the following morning?

3. Why does Okonkwo beat his second wife, Ojiugo, during the sacred Week of Peace?

4. What does the priestess do when she brings Ezinma out of Agbala's cave?

5. When the village meeting is called after the six leaders are released from the white man's prison, what does Okika say the clan should do?

(see the answer key)

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