Reading Quiz: Things Fall Apart Ch. 1-6

What is a key distinction that separates Okonkwo from his father, Unoka?

• Okonkwo was a great wrestler, Unoka loved music and playing the flute

• Okonkwo is a successful man, Unoka was a complete failure.

• Okonkwo had many wives, Unoka had just one

• Okonkwo was good with yams, Unoka was good with potatoes

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The setting of this story is in __________________________ during the _______________________ time period.

• Congo, during the colonial time period.

• West Africa, during the Cold War.

• Nigeria, during the Congo-African War.

• Nigeria, during the colonial time period.

"But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw."

This quote describes which character?

• Unoka

• Obigiayli

• Nwoye

• Okonkwo

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Why did Chinua Achebe write the book, Things Fall Apart?

• To let all people know that Africa was indeed, a very dark continent.

• He wanted to let all people know that Africans are kind and generous people.

• It was his response to Joseph Conrad's novel, The Heart of Darkness.

• None of the above.

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What village is Umoufia going to war against? For what reason?

• Mbaino, a man from that village had killed a daughter of Umoufia

• Mbanta, they performed a ritual that offended Umoufia's gods

• Nigeria, they refused to observed the Week of Peace

• Zweye, a man had kidnapped a young bride (Okonkwo's daughter) from Umoufia to marry his son

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"Darkness held a vague terror for these people, even the bravest among them."

What did the Igbo people believe about the night?

• Night meant the mysterious, evil spiritual world that people wanted to avoid.

• Thieves and animal predators who might show up and kill their families in the night.

• The night was when the Oracle could communicate with the gods from both the good and evil spiritual worlds.

• None of the above.

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"Umoufia was feared by all its neighbors."

Why did other villages fear Umoufia?

• They feared Okonkwo, the best wrestler of all time who defeated Amalinze the Cat.

• They were powerful in war and in magic (Oracle). Umoufia's priests and medicine men were feared in all surrounding villages.

• The Oracle was Umoufia's most powerful ally they had in war. Many other villages highly respected this.

• Umoufia had never once lost a battle to a surrounding village.

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What is an Oracle?

• A dark cave in the hills where a person enters and speaks to the ancestral spirits.

• A man who wears a mask and dances throughout the night to speak with all the spirits that reside in the village.

• A house where old men go to speak to dead spirits and gods.

• It is like a prophet, a person (woman) who will tell what Umoufia's future will be like. She has deep supernatural insight into the spiritual world.

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How did Ikemefuna come to live with Okonkwo's household?

• His father had died and the old men of Umoufia had suggested that he go live with Okonkwo.

• He was the lad given by the man in Mbaino who had mistakenly killed the girl from Umoufia.

• Okonkwo had no sons and offered to take him in as his very own son.

• None of the above.

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Since Unoka left him nothing when he died, how did Okonkwo get his own successful start in life?

• Obigiayli had offered some seed yams to Okonkwo to start his life, opposite from his father's.

• He prayed to the Oracle to bless him during the first season of planting yams.

• He borrowed seed yams from Nwakibe.

• His uncle left him a barn full of yams to help Okonkwo begin his life.