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 are the traditional events when night falls and it is time to end Obierika's daughter's uri?
(a) The elders sit in a circle while singers sing each man's praise. Then the guest's rise to go and the bride is to leave with them for seven weeks.
(b) The singers sing a song of praise to Obierika for such a wonderful celebration.
(c) The leftover wine is divided into flasks for the guests to take home.
(d) The women gather all the pots, filling them with leftover food and give each guest a pot to take home.

2. Why do the people of Umuofia observe the Week of Peace?
(a) It is a time to set aside differences with families and neighbors, forgiving them for past offenses.
(b) It is a week of happy celebration, dancing, and feasting with everyone in the village. It creates a peaceful, cooperative atmosphere that is supposed to last throughout the year.
(c) It is a time for families to develop bonds of love and understanding, making their relationships strong.
(d) Their forefather's ordained that before they planted any crops, they have to observe a week where it is forbidden to say a harsh word to a neighbor. This honors the god of the earth, so that the crops will grow.

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

4. What ultimatum is dispatched to Mbaino as a consequence of the murder of the woman from Umuofia?
(a) Delivery to Umuofia a year's worth of the yam harvest as a peace offering.
(b) Choose between war or the offer of a young man and a virgin from Mbaino.
(c) The sacrificial offering of one of the daughters of Mbaino.
(d) Deliver the head of the murderer to the people of Umuofia.

5. Why doesn't Okonkwo have any patience with his father?
(a) Unoka is lazy, a debtor, and a failure.
(b) Unkona is overly ambitious and driven to earn the highest titles in the land.
(c) Unkona is a great warrior who is always away at war.
(d) Unkona spoils his wife and children, providing them with too much food and money.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the women of the clan prepare for the Feast of the New Yam?

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

3. How does Ikemenfuna feel after three weeks of illness?

4. What is a man who holds the ozo title forbidden to do?

5. What is the shameful death Unoka endures?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,569 words (approx. 6 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample