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Things Fall Apart

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Chapters Twelve–Thirteen

Chapters Fourteen–Sixteen

Chapters Seventeen–Nineteen

Chapters Twenty–Twenty-One

Chapters Twenty-Two–Twenty-Three

Chapters Twenty-Four–Twenty-Five

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Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

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1. What is the name of Okonkwo's motherland?

(A) Mbaino

(B) Mbutu

(D) Mantra

2. What holy animal does Okonkwo's clan suspect the Christians have killed and eaten?

(A) A locust

(B) A python

(D) A tortoise

3. What is the name of the first missionary who comes to Umuofia?

(A) Mr. Brown

(B) Reverend Smith

(D) Missionary Man

4. How many villages does Umuofia comprise?

(A) One

(B) Four

(D) Seven

5. Whom did Okonkwo beat in his legendary wrestling match?

(A) Ekwefi Ogbuedi the Rooster

(B) Ogbuedi the Snake

(D) Amalinze the Cat

6. In what country does Things Fall Apart take place?

(A) Kenya

(B) Nigeria

(D) South Africa

7. What do the inhabitants of Mbanta believe is responsible for the white man's miraculous survival after having built his church in the Evil Forest?

(A) His eyeglasses

(B) His Bible

(D) His attitude

8. What is an ogbanje?

(A) A masked spirit

(B) A type of yam soup

(D) A musical instrument

9. What does Okonkwo constantly wish Ezinma had been?

(A) His firstborn child

(B) A son

(D) A donkey

10. What does a palm tapper tap?

(A) His hand, to keep the beat

(B) A shoulder, for advice

(D) The ground, for oil

11. For what reason is Okonkwo exiled?

(A) He owes money

(B) He willfully kills a fellow clan member

(D) He unintentionally kills a fellow clan member

12. What are the outcasts required to do before they may join the church?

(A) Shave their heads

(B) Pierce their tongues

(D) Change their names

13. What is the name of Okonkwo's second wife?

(A) Chielo

(B) Ojiugo

(D) Ezinma

14. Where are the Christian women forbidden to go when the clan hears of the killing of a royal python?

(A) To the Evil Forest

(B) To the stream

(D) To the Tribal Council Meeting

15. What does Okonkwo do even though he is advised not to?

(A) Marry Ojiugo

(B) Beat Nwoye twice

(D) Help kill Ikemefuna

16. What crop is king for the Igbo?

(A) Cassava

(B) Yam

(D) Riding Crop

17. When the Igbo refer to the “iron-horse,” what do they mean?

(A) A train carriage

(B) Maduka, the star wrestler

(D) An elephant

18. What is the polite name for leprosy among the Igbo?

(A) The swelling sickness

(B) The white skin

(D) The albino condition

19. When do the clan members share the kola nut?

(A) When declaring war

(B) When giving birth to children

(D) When gathering for social occasions

20. In the allegory of Tortoise, what do the birds give to Tortoise?

(A) Bird seed

(B) Feathers

(D) A branch

21. What does Enoch do to provoke the rage of the clan?

(A) He unmasks an egwugwu

(B) He converts Nwoye

(D) lsHe mutilates twins

22. How does Okonkwo die?

(A) He is poisoned by the Commissioner

(B) He hangs himself

(D) He dies of the swelling disease

23. Why are the villagers happy when the locusts arrive?

(A) Because they represent future happiness

(B) Because they mean good weather and good crops

(D) Because they taste good

24. What does Okonkwo fear most?

(A) Joining the missionaries

(B) Confronting his father

(D) The overthrow of the village elders

25. The title Things Fall Apart is taken from a poem by

(A) Alfred Lord Tennyson

(B) Joseph Conrad

(D) William Butler Yeats

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