View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to twins born in Umuofia?
(a) They are revered as sacred above all other infants.
(b) They are drowned.
(c) They are placed in earthenware pots and thrown away in the forest.
(d) They are considered good luck and raised by the priestess of the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves.

2. What is the agreed upon bride-price for Akueke?
(a) Five bags of cowries and one hundred yam seeds
(b) Twenty bags of cowries
(c) Ten woven baskets of yams
(d) A she-goat, a hen, and ten cowries

3. Why does Okoye need to collect a past debt from Unkona?
(a) Okoye needs money to help him overcome his failures.
(b) To buy a new ogene, the musical instrument Okoye played.
(c) To help pay for the expensive Idemili title ceremony.
(d) To buy yams for his three wives.

4. Who is Okonkwo's father?
(a) Unoka
(b) Amalinze
(c) Ikemefuna
(d) Okoye

5. As Ekwefi and Okonkwo wait outside of Agbala's cave for Ezinma's return, what does Ekwefi think about?
(a) She thinks about when she and Okonkwo were young, and how she left her first husband to be with Okonkwo.
(b) She thinks about what must be happening to Ezinma in the cave.
(c) She thinks about how she and Okonkwo can defeat Agbala.
(d) She thinks she will take Ezinma and move away from the village.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the priestess of Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves, in real life?

2. Which of the spectators of the wrestling match are allowed to sit around the huge circle of the wrestling ring?

3. How does Okonkwo act for two days after Ikemefuna's death?

4. After speaking with the elders of nine villages, what does Okonkwo tell Ikemefuna about what is going to happen to him?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Predict what might happen later in the book from the conversation of Obierika, Machi, and Okonkwo when they talk about "what is good in one place is bad in another . . ." and that the polite name for leprosy is "white skin".

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

5. How do the people of Umuofia justify mutilating the bodies of children who die in infancy or early childhood, refusing to bury them but leaving them in the forest?

6. Summarize how the people pass the time during the rainy season.

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

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

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

10. Summarize the role of the women during the New Yam Festival.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,252 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample