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

2. Why is the big, ancient silk-cotton tree in the playground considered sacred?
(a) The spirits of good children waiting to be born live in the tree.
(b) The tree holds all the spirits of the men who died in wars since the beginning of time.
(c) The tree holds the spirits of all the ancestors of the clan.
(d) The tree is believed to have been the first tree in existence.

3. Who appears in front of Ekwefi as she waits tearfully outside Agbala's cave?
(a) Chielo
(b) Nwoye's mother
(c) Okonkwo
(d) Nwoye

4. What does the law state in Umuofia if a woman runs away from her husband?
(a) Her husband is allowed to go get her, dragging her back home by the hair.
(b) She is to be killed and left unburied for the vultures and wild animals.
(c) She must be left in the forest to die.
(d) Her bride-price must be returned to the husband.

5. When Okonkwo was a boy, his father, Unoka, consults Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills, about why his crops always fail.. What reply did the Oracle give?
(a) That he angers his ancestors and they plague his land.
(b) That he should stay home and offer sacrifices to the gods.
(c) That Unoka has offended the gods and that is why his crop fail.
(d) That Unoka sows his yams on exhausted land rather than making the effort to clear new land.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the crops that are considered women's crops by the people of Umuofia?

2. What is the custom in the village of Obodoani if a man dies during the Week of Peace?

3. Ezinma tells her mother, Ekwefi, that her upper eyelid is twitching. What does Ekwefi tell Ezinma the significance of the twitch is?

4. What happens to twins born in Umuofia?

5. What descends on the land of Okonkwo, darkens the sky, settles on the rooftops, and breaks mighty tree branches under them?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Okonkwo goes against his nature when he goes to find Ikwefi at the sacred cave.

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

3. In your opinion, what is the biggest factor that makes Ikemefuna accept the fact that he is not returning to his homeland?

4. Who do you think benefits from the judgment of the egwuwu in the trial of Uzowulu and his wife and family and why?

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. Compare the stories of men to the stories of women in Umuofia.

7. Relate how Okonkwo is able to plant his first yam-seeds when his father gives him nothing.

8. Evaluate Okonkwo's frame of mind after the destruction of the yam crop.

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

10. Do you think Okonkwo is justified in being ashamed of his father? Explain why.

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