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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Mr. Brown encourage the people to attend school?
(a) With singlets and towels
(b) With singlets and towels
(c) With a she-goat and hen
(d) With kola nuts and palm-wine

3. Why does Obierika go to visit Okonkwo a second time, two years after the first?
(a) To find out why Okonkwo's son, Nwoye, joined the white missionaries.
(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 bring more cowries and some yam seeds to his friend, Okonkwo

4. What is Okonkwo's punishment for killing Ezeudu's son?
(a) Beheading and disgrace.
(b) One of Okonkwo's sons is to be offered as sacrifice.
(c) He and his wives and children have to flee the land.
(d) All of Okonkwo's sons are to be executed.

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

6. 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) To save kinsman from starving
(c) To gather under the moonlight
(d) Because it is good for kinsman to do so

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

8. 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) Because he did not defended himself and may be innocent.
(d) The white man did not said anything to the Abame and according to Uchendu, silence is ominous.

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

10. What does Mr. Smith tell the people about ogbanje, the evil children who are born over and over again to plague their mothers?
(a) That the stories are most likely true.
(b) That the stories are okay to believe in.
(c) That the stories resemble the Christian beliefs.
(d) That the stories are spread by the Devil to lead men astray.

11. Who is the white missionary that makes friends with great men of the clan and is presented with a carved elephant tusk?
(a) Mr. Kiaga
(b) Mr. Brown
(c) Mr. Penn
(d) Mr. Smith

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

13. 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

14. 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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ekwefi and Ezinma harvest the cassava for the feast?

2. What does the District Commissioner do three days after the destruction of the church?

3. 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?

4. What happens to the Christian women who go to the stream for water to wash the church with?

5. Why do the elders fear for the young people of the village?

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