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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who touches off the conflict between church and clan in Umuofia that has been building since Mr. Brown left?
(a) Nwoye
(b) Mr. Smith
(c) Okonkwo
(d) Enoch

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

3. What news does Obierika bring to Okonkwo and Uchendu about the Abame clan?
(a) The clan has been wiped out by white men who surrounded the market and shot everyone.
(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 offered the white men yam seeds, so they could build their own farms.

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

5. What is the first thing Okonkwo plans to do when he returns to his clan?
(a) Move in with a neighbor until he could rebuild
(b) Have his wives cook meals for the village
(c) Go to each neighboring hut, apologizing for the past
(d) Rebuild his compound better than it was before

6. What do the missionaries tell the Mbanta people about their gods?
(a) They are mythical, friendly gods but are not real.
(b) They are gods of deceit who tell you to kill your fellows and destroy innocent children.
(c) The gods are true and should be sacrificed to for abundant crops.
(d) They are wonderful, loving gods, but are not the one true God.

7. What type of clan members join the white man's religion?
(a) The warriors of the clan, hoping the religion would keep them safe
(b) The women and children of the clan
(c) Men with no titles, efulefu, worthless and empty men
(d) The elders of the clan and their families

8. What does Uchendu, the younger brother of Okonkwo's mother, give to Okonkwo after he comes looking for refuge?
(a) A basket of yams and palm-wine for his travels
(b) A plot of ground, and two or three pieces of land
(c) Advice on living in the forest
(d) A gun to protect him and his family during their exile

9. What is Okonkwo afraid will happen to his male children after he dies?
(a) They will never go back to their homeland again.
(b) They will be killed by neighboring enemies.
(c) They will forget the lessons Okonkwo taught them.
(d) They will follow in Nwoye's footsteps and abandon the gods of their ancestors.

10. Every man learns the language of the ekwe. How does the wooden instrument let the people know exactly who has died?
(a) It spells out the letters in the name.
(b) It only announces the name of the village.
(c) First it announces the name of the clan, then it names the village, and finally it names the man.
(d) It announces the name of the man over and over again.

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

12. When the missionaries ask the rulers of Mbanta for land to build their church, what do the rulers give them?
(a) The
(b) An uncleared piece of land in the forest
(c) A rocky, barren piece of land in the hills
(d) The best plot of land in the village

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

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

15. What does Okika suggest they do that their fathers had never done before?
(a) Accept their fate, taking on the white man's ways.
(b) Fight against their own brothers who have taken the side of the white man.
(c) Give up their own religious beliefs and accept Christianity.
(d) Allow their children to attend the white man's school.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can Ezeudu, the oldest man in his village, only be buried at night?

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

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

4. What does the Abame clan do to the first white man that comes to their village?

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

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