Dead Men's Path

Michael Obi strenuously believed in a certain method of teaching. Which statement explains this best?

• He wanted to educate the children at the school in the classics

• He wanted to spend time outside of school with his new wife instead of grading papers

• The school compound was of no importance to his teaching

• He was passionate about "modern methods" and denigrated older teachers.

What happened that was the turning point for the villagers?

• An elder was hurt on the path

• The village priest explained the problem and they agreed to build a new path

• The students refused to attend school

• A young woman died in childbed

How did Obi finally know the villagers would not accept his decision?

• The villagers sent an elder to talk to him

• The priest moved the entire village to another site

• The hedges were torn up and the flowers trampled

• A letter was sent to the white Supervisor asking for a replacement headmaster

What is the significance of the path to the villagers?

• A bond between life and the afterlife

• Where people go when they died

• Babies travel it to access the village

• all of the choices

What was the main theme in this story

• there are many diffeences between old and new

• sometimes old things are better because they hold special significance

• all of the above

Why did Obi not want the path to be used as a footpath?

• It was dangerous

• It didn't go anywhere

• It encouraged poeple to escape

• It was in the middle of his wife's beautifully tended garden

What could the result of the headmaster's "zeal" possibly be according to the white Supervisor's report?

• There was a tribal-war situation developing between the school and the village

• The headmaster should be promoted

• The villager elders decided to ban all white people from their village

• All of the students would pass their exams

What were the headmaster's two aims?

• To educate the students, and to do it in a better environment

• To get more funding for the school and educate the students about poverty and disease

• To decrease the population and find new teachers

• To move the school to a better location and get new teachers

Who was the new Headmaster at Ndume School?

• Michael Obi

• The Priest

• Chinua Achebe

• Nancy Obi

Who is the Protagonist of the story?

• The priest

• Michael Obi

• The villagers