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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. What is the one passion that rules Okonkwo's life?
(a) To obtain more wealth than anyone else in Umuofia.
(b) To be affluent in money, wives, and children.
(c) To make sure his barn was always filled with yams.
(d) To hate everything his father loved.

2. Okonkwo is sitting in his obi with Ikemefuna and Nwoye, eating dried locusts when Ogbuefi Ezeudu comes with a message. What is the message?
(a) Ikemefuna is to remain in Okonkwo's household as a servant for the rest of his life.
(b) Nwoye and Ikemefuna are to be declared by Umuofia as brothers for life.
(c) Umuofia decides to kill Ikemefuna. The Oracle of the Hills pronounces it. Okonkwo is not to take part in the killing because the boy calls him father.
(d) Ikemefuna is to be given all the rights of an adopted son to Okonkwo.

3. Which of the spectators of the wrestling match are allowed to sit around the huge circle of the wrestling ring?
(a) The wrestlers waiting for their matches.
(b) The elders, grandees, a few early comers in the stands, and the drummers.
(c) Pregnant women.
(d) Women and children.

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

5. 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?
(a) The child is an agbanje, a wicked child that enters the mother's womb to be born again.
(b) Ekwefi should just keep trying, and sooner or later a child would survive.
(c) Ekwefi did not eat vegetable soup throughout her pregnancies.
(d) Ekwefi is weak and should not become pregnant again.

Short Answer Questions

1. Nwoye's mother calls Ezinma "Ezigbo" when she brings the fire to Nwoye's mother's hut. What does "Ezigbo" mean?

2. Obiageli, Nwoye's sister, comes home crying because her water pot is broken. How did her waterpot break?

3. The first day of the new year is celebrated with feasting and fellowship. What takes place on the second day of the new year?

4. What are the women's duties after the yams are planted?

5. Why does Unkona change the subject to music when he and Oybe are discussing the impending war with the village of Mbaino?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Okonkwo continues to worry about his son Nwoye, especially after the death of Ikemefuna.

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

3. Describe the Week of Peace celebrated in Umuofia . How does Okonkwo violate this sacred peace and what are the consequences?

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

5. Evaluate Okonkwo's reputation in the nine villages of Umuofia.

6. What is the tradition the in-laws must do for the uri?

7. Do you think Okonkwo is justified in reaction when he thinks his second wife, Ekwefi, killed a banana tree during the New Yam Festival? Explain.

8. Analyze Okonkwo's feelings for Enzinma and Ekwefi, and how they relate to his fear of weakness.

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

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

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