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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Chukwu
(c) Enoch
(d) Yahweh

2. 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 ten bags
(c) Three hundred bags
(d) Two hundred and fifty bags

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

4. What is an osu?
(a) A holy man, revered by the people
(b) A very brave and accomplished hunter
(c) A person dedicated to a god, set apart and taboo forever
(d) One of the elders, given a hut in the center of the village

5. 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) There are too many white men.
(d) The white men are more courageous than the men of Umuofia.

6. Why do the men of Umuofia meet in the marketplace after the village crier beats the message on the ogene?
(a) They decide to offer half of the required fine to release the six leaders.
(b) They decide to collect the fine immediately to release their six leaders.
(c) They decide against collecting any cowries to release the six leaders.
(d) They decide to negotiate with the District Commissioner.

7. Why can Ezeudu, the oldest man in his village, only be buried at night?
(a) The spirits announce that he has to be buried at night.
(b) The oldest man of the village is always buried after dark.
(c) He is a noble warrior with three titles to his name. A man who took titles can only be buried after dark.
(d) It is believed being buried at night will bring the dead man closer to his ancestors.

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

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

10. 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

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

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

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

14. 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

15. What does the Abame clan do to the first white man that comes to their village?
(a) They kill him and tie his iron horse to the sacred silk-cotton tree.
(b) They offer vegetable soup and palm-wine to him.
(c) They rub his body with palm oil and adorn him with beads, thinking he is a god.
(d) They touch his white skin because they have never seen anything like it before.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Brown build in Umuofia?

2. Why does Uchendu say, "Never kill a man who says nothing" when Obierika tells them about the white man the Abame killed?

3. What is the other thing that the white man brought to Umuofia besides religion?

4. What does Enoch do that is one of the greatest crimes a man can commit during the annual ceremony?

5. Who is the missionary that replaces Mr. Brown in Umuofia?

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