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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many cowries do the court messengers ask the people for as payment to release their leaders?
(a) Two hundred bags
(b) Three hundred bags
(c) Two hundred and ten bags
(d) Two hundred and fifty bags

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) Okonkwo
(b) Uchendu
(c) Obierika
(d) Nwoye

3. What happens to the six leaders of Umuofia during their meeting with the District Commissioner?
(a) They are treated with kindness and respect.
(b) They are put in handcuffs, and led to the guardroom.
(c) The Commissioner and leaders agree to peace.
(d) They share a feast with the District Commissioner.

4. What does Okonkwo send to Obierika as he enters his final year of exile?
(a) bag of cowries to repay Obierika for the money he gave him through the years
(b) Money to build a obi for Okonkwo for when he and his family return
(c) Four hundred yam seeds to sow in Okonkwo's old field, so he and his family will have food when they returned from exile
(d) Money to build two huts on Okonkwo's old compound where he and his family will live until he builds more

5. What does the District Commissioner do three days after the destruction of the church?
(a) He has the six leaders of Umuofia killed.
(b) He exiles the six leaders of Umuofia.
(c) He forgives the six leaders of Umuofia and tells them to go on their way.
(d) He speaks to Mr. Smith and calls a meeting with the six leaders of Umuofia.

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

7. Where does Obierika get the bags of cowries that he brings to Okonkwo?
(a) He gives Okonkwo some of the cowries he saved through the years.
(b) He collects the money from the clan members who favor Okonkwo.
(c) He sells Okonkwo's yams and seed yams.
(d) He sells Okonkwo's compound and brings him the money.

8. Why does Obierika tell Okonkwo that it is too late to fight the white man and drive him from the land?
(a) The white men have powerful spirits who protected them.
(b) Because their own men and sons have joined the white man's religion and government.
(c) The white men are more courageous than the men of Umuofia.
(d) There are too many white men.

9. When Aneto kills Oduche over a land dispute, what does the white man's government decide?
(a) To whip Aneto
(b) To exile Aneto and his family
(c) To hang Aneto
(d) To imprison Aneto for life

10. How are the six leaders of Umuofia treated while in captivity?
(a) They are treated with kindness and respect.
(b) They are whipped every day.
(c) They are given anything they asked for.
(d) 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.

11. How many missionaries go to Mbanta?
(a) Two white missionaries
(b) Three black missionaries
(c) Three white missionaries
(d) Six and one of them is white

12. Who is captivated by the message of the missionaries?
(a) Okonkwo
(b) Obierika
(c) Ezinma
(d) Nwoye

13. Who is the white missionary that makes friends with great men of the clan and is presented with a carved elephant tusk?
(a) Mr. Kiaga
(b) Mr. Smith
(c) Mr. Penn
(d) Mr. Brown

14. What do the people of Mbanta expect to happen to the missionaries when they start building their church?
(a) They expect all the missionaries to die within four days.
(b) They expect all the missionaries to get sick.
(c) They think many of the clan will convert to the new religion.
(d) They expect all the people of Mbanta to help build the church.

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the men of Umuofia meet in the marketplace after the village crier beats the message on the ogene?

2. What does Uchendu tell Okonkw his duty was?

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

4. Why do the people say "Mother is Supreme" when the man is the head of the family and his wives and children are obedient to him?

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

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