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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Obierika bring for Okonkwo two years after Okonkwo had been exiled?
(a) Woven baskets of yams
(b) Yam seeds
(c) Kola nuts and palm-wine
(d) Bags full of cowries

2. What does Okonkwo vow to do after being released from the white man's prison?
(a) He vows to move away from Umuofia.
(b) He swears vengeance.
(c) He vows to convert to Christianity.
(d) He vows never to be a source of trouble again.

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

4. What does Nwoye do after his father, Okonkwo, beats him for being with the missionaries?
(a) He leaves his family to go the the Christian school in Umuofia.
(b) He begs his father to stop beating him.
(c) He screams for his mother's help.
(d) He swears that he will never go near the missionary church again.

5. Why do the elders fear for the young people of the village?
(a) They follow the old ways instead of the new religion.
(b) They are unwilling to hunt.
(c) They are poor farmers.
(d) They do not understand the bond of kinship.

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

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

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

9. Where does Okonkwo bring his family after being banished from his village?
(a) To an enemy village asking to be accepted
(b) To his mother's kinsmen in Mbanta
(c) To wander the forests and live off the land
(d) To live in a cave in the hills

10. What does Okonkwo serve at the feast for all the umunna, the descendants of Okolo?
(a) Fish from the stream, and roasted locusts
(b) Roasted locusts and small wild birds
(c) Yams wrapped in palm leaves and roasted with palm oil
(d) Three goats, fowls, foo-foo, yam pottage, egusi soup, bitter-leaf soup, palm-wine and kola nuts

11. What is the name of the first woman to join the Christian missionaries?
(a) Nwoye's mother
(b) Nneka
(c) Ekwefi
(d) Ezinma

12. What does Enoch do that is one of the greatest crimes a man can commit during the annual ceremony?
(a) He unmasks an egwugwu in public, killing an ancestral spirit.
(b) He defies his chi.
(c) He beats the wife of another man.
(d) He becomes an efulefu.

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

14. 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 burn them to the ground.
(b) They murder all Enoch's family and the Christians in the church.
(c) They rub red clay and palm oil all over the buildings.
(d) They leave the buildings alone and try to find Enoch.

15. 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) Yahweh
(b) Akunna
(c) Enoch
(d) Chukwu

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Okonkwo do when the court messengers come to the meeting, telling the clan to stop?

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

3. What does Uchendu tell Okonkw his duty was?

4. When the missionaries ask the rulers of Mbanta for land to build their church, what do the rulers give them?

5. Who is called the Crystal of Beauty in Mbanta, growing into a healthy, buoyant young woman?

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