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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. Who is the priestess of Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves, in real life?
(a) Anasi, Okonkwo's first wife
(b) Noywe's mother
(c) Chielo, a widow with two children
(d) Ekwefi, the second wife of Okonkwo

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

3. When Okonkwo is angry and cannot speak because of his stutter, how does he get his point across?
(a) Takes a deep breath and gets control of himself.
(b) Walks away, returning when he is calmer.
(c) Uses hand motions to relay his message.
(d) Uses his fists against the person who angers him.

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

5. What does Okonkwo bring with him to share with the wealthy Nwakibie and his family before asking for yam seeds and share cropping privileges?
(a) Palm-wine, a cock, kola nut, and alligator pepper.
(b) Goat's milk and eggs.
(c) A bamboo basket and a goatflask.
(d) Campfire wood, and a pot of soup.

Short Answer Questions

1. What hopes does Okonkwo have for his son, Nwoye's , future?

2. Okonkwo is very prosperous, owning a large compound with many huts, and an abundance of food. Ikemefuna is given to Okonkwo to live with him until the clan decides Ikemefuna's fate. How does Ikemefuna react to living with Okonkwo?

3. Where does the powerful Oracle of the Hills, Agbala, live?

4. What is the only way a young man can build a barn of his own if his father has no yams?

5. Why doesn't Okonkwo have any patience with his father?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Do you agree with Okonkwo when he gives the fatal blow to Ikemefuna with his machete?

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

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. Explain what role the egwuwu, the ancestral spirits of the clan, has in the public trials of the nine villages of the clan.

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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?

10. 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".

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