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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Obierika go to visit Okonkwo a second time, two years after the first?
(a) To bring more cowries and some yam seeds to his friend, Okonkwo
(b) To find out if all is well with Okonkwo and his family.
(c) He misses his good friend, Okonkwo, and thinks he should tell him that missionaries had come.
(d) To find out why Okonkwo's son, Nwoye, joined the white missionaries.

2. 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 malnourished and weak.
(d) The clan is too aggressive and angry.

3. What is the first thing Mr. Kiaga orders the outcasts to do if they want to remain in the new religion?
(a) Go to the village and proclaim their faith
(b) Kneel before the cross and pray to be accepted
(c) Shave off their long tangled hair
(d) Return to their special area of the village and never return

4. 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) Give up their own religious beliefs and accept Christianity.
(c) Fight against their own brothers who have taken the side of the white man.
(d) Allow their children to attend the white man's school.

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

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

7. What does Uchendu tell Okonkw his duty was?
(a) Comfort his wives and children and take them back to his fatherland after seven years.
(b) Forget about his past, and denounce his homeland.
(c) To go back to his clan and beg to be forgiven.
(d) Never return to his homeland, but build his future in Mbanta.

8. What is the name of the god that the people of Umuofia believe is the creator of the all the world and the other gods?
(a) Akunna
(b) Enoch
(c) Chukwu
(d) Yahweh

9. What does the angry band of egwugwu do to Enoch's compound and the Christian church as revenge for unmasking one of the ancestral spirits?
(a) They rub red clay and palm oil all over the buildings.
(b) They murder all Enoch's family and the Christians in the church.
(c) They burn them to the ground.
(d) They leave the buildings alone and try to find Enoch.

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Okonkwo afraid will happen to his male children after he dies?

2. What does Uchendu, the younger brother of Okonkwo's mother, give to Okonkwo after he comes looking for refuge?

3. What does Nwoye do after his father, Okonkwo, beats him for being with the missionaries?

4. What does Obierika bring for Okonkwo two years after Okonkwo had been exiled?

5. What does Mr. Smith tell the people about ogbanje, the evil children who are born over and over again to plague their mothers?

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