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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 does Enoch do that is one of the greatest crimes a man can commit during the annual ceremony?
(a) He defies his chi.
(b) He beats the wife of another man.
(c) He becomes an efulefu.
(d) He unmasks an egwugwu in public, killing an ancestral spirit.

2. When the missionaries ask the rulers of Mbanta for land to build their church, what do the rulers give them?
(a) An uncleared piece of land in the forest
(b) The best plot of land in the village
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(d) A rocky, barren piece of land in the hills

3. When the village meeting is called after the six leaders are released from the white man's prison, what does Okika say the clan should do?
(a) Move and build a village elsewhere
(b) Become Christians
(c) All come to peace with the white man
(d) Root out the evil of the white man

4. What does Okonkwo vow to do after being released from the white man's prison?
(a) He swears vengeance.
(b) He vows to move away from Umuofia.
(c) He vows to convert to Christianity.
(d) He vows never to be a source of trouble again.

5. What does Okonkwo send to Obierika as he enters his final year of exile?
(a) Money to build a obi for Okonkwo for when he and his family return
(b) bag of cowries to repay Obierika for the money he gave him through the years
(c) Four hundred yam seeds to sow in Okonkwo's old field, so he and his family will have food when they returned from exile
(d) Money to build two huts on Okonkwo's old compound where he and his family will live until he builds more

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the ekwe, a hollowed out wooden instrument and the blast of the cannon signify to the nine villages of Umuofia?

2. What does the oldest member of the clan say is the reason for gathering for Okonkwo's feast?

3. What does Mr. Brown build in Umuofia?

4. What does the District Commissioner do three days after the destruction of the church?

5. What is the name of the man that the ekwe announces to Umuofia?

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare the personalities of Mr. Brown and Reverend Smith. Which man do you think was better for the people of Umuofia?

2. What impact does the burning of the church have on Okonkwo's frame of mind?

3. How does the saying "You can never go home again" hold true for Okonkwo when he returns home after seven years in exile?

4. Do you think the white man causes the village of Umuofia to fall apart, as Obierika thinks? Explain.

5. Summarize the advice Uchendu gives to Okonkwo about his lot in life.

6. What is Okonkwo's point of view with regard to the clan when he returns home?

7. Do you agree that Mr. Kiaga's choice of allowing the outcasts, osu, to join the other converts in the church is in the best interest of his congregation? Explain.

8. The District Commissioner outsmarts the six leaders of Umuofia, including Okonkwo and arrests them, abuses them, and humiliates them. What affect does his have on the spirit of the clan?

9. Do you think Okonkwo is correct in his reaction to his son, Nwoye joining the Christians? Why?

10. How do the words of the missionaries impact Okonkwo's son, Nwoye?

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