Things Fall Apart-Chapters 16-18

Nwoye disappoints Okonkwo by: 

• failing English II
• converting to Christianity
• marrying a woman of his own choice
• burning down a palm tree

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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

Why do people of the village laugh at the missionaries whenever they speak?

• they are white
• they call themselves "my buttocks"
• they don't believe in the Evil Forest

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CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

What are the iron horses?

• cars
• trains
• bikes
• pogo sticks

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Okonkwo, listening to the missionaries, concludes that they must be insane. The only reason he sticks around to listen to them talk is that he’s hoping the men of Mbanta will decide to chase all of the missionaries out – he’d like to join in on that action.

• True
• False

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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

Who said 
Answer me,” roared ____, “before I kill you!” He seized a heavy stick that lay on the dwarf wall and hit him two or three savage blows.
“Answer me!” he roared again. Nwoye stood looking at him and did not say a word. The women were screaming outside, afraid to go in.

• Okonkwo
• the missionaries
• Ikemefuma

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

The missionaries really start bother the clan when they welcome Igbo outcasts – similar to the Hindu untouchable caste – into the church.When the outcasts first enter the church, hoping to be accepted , Mr. Kiaga,  preaches tolerance and views the outcasts as brothers under God. His only stipulation is that they _

• shave off their long tangled hair
• tattoo a cross upon their chest
• paint the words "Jesu Kristi" on their walls
• destroy the town's egwugwu masks

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

The villagers give the missionaries land in the for their Church in the _______

• village
• Evil Forest
• cassava

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9