Reading Check: Chapter 8 of Things Fall Apart

After the killing of Ikemefuna, who is afraid of Okonkwo?

• Ezinma

• Nwoye

• Obierika

• Maduka

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

To what does Okonkwo NOT compare himself as he thinks about the killing of Ikemefuna?

• rat caught by the tail

• a drunken giant

• a shivering old woman

• a fish out of water

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Whose hut does Okonkwo visit in the chapter?

• Ofoedu

• Ndulue

• Obierika

• Ozoemena

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

The suitor´s family is paying for what to Obierika?

• a debt owed

• a gambling wager

• food and drink

• a bride price

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CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

Akueke wore a jigida which is (are) (a) ______.

• earrings

• waist beads

• anklets

• bracelets

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CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

What objects did they use to settle the bride price?

• palm fronds

• spoons

• broomsticks

• heads

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CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

The final bride price for Obierika's daughter was settled at how many bags of cowries?

• 10

• 20

• 30

• 40

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Who is introduced for the first time at the end of the chapter?

• missionaries

• the white man

• the commissioner

• the governor

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Besides skin color, what was said to be different about the white man?

• No toes

• No fingers

• No shoes

• No money

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What was another name for leprosy?

• red skin

• black skin

• yellow skin

• white skin

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4