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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Okonkwo going to thank his mother's people for helping him during his seven years in exile?
(a) He is going to give the elders a bag of cowries.
(b) He is going to have a great feast.
(c) He is going to leave behind one of his wives to work for the rulers and elders.
(d) He is going to distribute all his yam seeds to the people.

2. What does Okonkwo do when the court messengers come to the meeting, telling the clan to stop?
(a) He leaves the meeting, afraid of being arrested again.
(b) He beheads one of the messengers with his machete.
(c) He tries to convince the messengers to join the meeting peacefully.
(d) He turns and asks the clan to stop the meeting.

3. What is the nickname of kotma, the court messengers who guard the prison which holds people who break the white man's law?
(a) Slime of the earth
(b) Betrayers of the people
(c) Dead locusts
(d) Ashy-buttocks

4. What is the tragedy that takes place during the final burial rites for Ezeudu while the cannon is shot and guns fired?
(a) Another elder of the clan dies in all the excitement.
(b) Ezeudu's wife stabs herself.
(c) Ezeudu's sixteen-year-old son is killed when Okonkwo's gun explodes.
(d) Ezeudu's sixteen-year-old son is shot in the arm.

5. Who is called the Crystal of Beauty in Mbanta, growing into a healthy, buoyant young woman?
(a) Ezinma
(b) Ezigbo
(c) Chielo
(d) Obiageli

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

7. What does the oldest member of the clan say is the reason for gathering for Okonkwo's feast?
(a) To show off the wealth of food
(b) Because it is good for kinsman to do so
(c) To gather under the moonlight
(d) To save kinsman from starving

8. What news does Obierika bring to Okonkwo and Uchendu about the Abame clan?
(a) The clan offered the white men yam seeds, so they could build their own farms.
(b) The clan befriended the white men who arrived and now were affluent.
(c) The clan gave five of their daughters to the white men who came to the village.
(d) The clan has been wiped out by white men who surrounded the market and shot everyone.

9. What happens in Umuofia the next time Obierika comes to visit Okonkwo, two years later?
(a) The white men wipe out another clan of Umuofia.
(b) The entire village coverts to the white man's religion.
(c) The missionaries come, building a church and send evangalists to other towns and villages.
(d) More white men come, and the clan kills them.

10. Why does Uchendu say, "Never kill a man who says nothing" when Obierika tells them about the white man the Abame killed?
(a) He may hold secrets you need to learn.
(b) He may not be able to speak your language.
(c) The white man did not said anything to the Abame and according to Uchendu, silence is ominous.
(d) Because he did not defended himself and may be innocent.

11. What does Okonkwo feel the greatest obstacle to going to war against the white man is?
(a) The fear of the clan
(b) The cowardice of Egonwanne
(c) The clan is not prepared for war
(d) His own cowardice

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

13. What option does Ajofia, the leading egwugwu, give to Mr. Smith when they come to the church?
(a) Mr. Smith can denounce his God or die.
(b) Mr. Smith can tell all the converts that he lied to them about God.
(c) Mr. Smith can leave Umuofia and not be harmed.
(d) Mr. Smith can stay and worship his God and go back to his house.

14. 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) Money to build two huts on Okonkwo's old compound where he and his family will live until he builds more
(d) Four hundred yam seeds to sow in Okonkwo's old field, so he and his family will have food when they returned from exile

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many missionaries go to Mbanta?

2. What does Okika suggest they do that their fathers had never done before?

3. What does Okonkwo hope his sons will be initiated into when his family returns from exile?

4. What punishment does the District Commissioner give the six leaders of Umuofia?

5. When Aneto kills Oduche over a land dispute, what does the white man's government decide?

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