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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The punishment for breaking the sacred peace changes through the years. What happened to a man that broke the Week of Peace in the past?
(a) He was exiled from Umuofia, considered to be dead to all the clan.
(b) He was hanged in the marketplace for all to see.
(c) He was dragged on the ground through the village until dead.
(d) He was tied in the village marketplace and each member of the clan spat on him.

2. What are the women's duties after the yams are planted?
(a) They make bamboo woven hats for the farmers working in the hot sun.
(b) They plant maize, melons, and beans between the mounds. They also weeded the farm three times per planting season.
(c) They plant kola nuts between the yams, and weed the yams every day.
(d) They make meals for the men working in the fields.

3. Why does Unkona's neighbor, Okoye, visit him?
(a) To collect a two-year-old debt of two hundred cowries.
(b) To talk about music.
(c) To share kola nuts with Unkona.
(d) To pray with Unkona for life, health, and protection from enemies.

4. Where does Chielo bring Ezinma?
(a) To the yam fields
(b) Deep into the forest
(c) To the village of Umuachi, then turns around and continues back to the hills of Agbala
(d) To where dead children are buried

5. How do the women of the clan prepare for the Feast of the New Yam?
(a) They decorate robes with intricate patterns made of colored beans, plaite each others hair, color their faces with red clay, and make veils to cover their faces during the festival.
(b) They gather in the marketplace to share all their clothing, jewelry and sandals with one another. They wear each others belongings to prove to the goddess, Ani, that they are worthy people.
(c) They scrub the walls and huts with red earth, draw patterns on them in white, yellow and green, paint themselves with cam wood, and draw black patterns on their stomach and backs.
(d) They cleanse their bodies, wear a simple robe and sandles, and scrub their faces. They are to go to the festival free of all paint, jewelry, or ornamentation of any kind.

Short Answer Questions

1. Nine out of ten of Ekwefi's children die in infancy. After the second death, Okonkwo goes to the medicine man to find out why this is happening. What explanation does the diviner give?

2. How are the children of the village prepared for the Feast of the New Yam?

3. What is the name of the boy who wins the wrestling match in the fifteen- to sixteen-year-old age group with a lightning fast move that was never seen before?

4. What does Okonkwo bring with him to share with the wealthy Nwakibie and his family before asking for yam seeds and share cropping privileges?

5. What does Okonkwo bring back from the bush while Ezinma lays sick in Ekwefi's hut?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why Okoye, Unoka's friend, is considered a successful man.

2. Is it evident that the tribal rituals of marriage are important for not only the wedding couple, but the entire village?

3. Explain how Ikemefuna is a good friend to Obiageli on the day of the New Yam Festival.

4. Compare the differences in the attitudes of the people of Umuofia with regard to a dark night and a moonlit night.

5. Describe the weather patterns the year Okonkwo promises to farm the eight hundred yam seeds from Nwakibie, and how they affect the yams.

6. Explain why sharecropping is a very difficult way to get ahead for Okonkwo, and how it impacts his parents and sisters.

7. Why don't the people want an even wrestling match, ending in a tie?

8. Explain how Ekwefi defies the traditions of the clan when Chielo takes Ezinma to Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves.

9. Explain how Okonkwo's stern attitude changes when he is awakened in the night because Ezinma is sick.

10. Describe why Okonkwo is considered a wealthy man by Umuofia's standards.

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