Final Review: Things Fall Apart

Okonkwo did not have a good start in life because his father was: 

• a debtor
• mean
• exiled
• killed in battle

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Which of the following is not a status symbol in Igbo culture?

• lots of yams
• lots of wives
• lots of titles
• lots of tattoos

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Okonkwo's biggest fears are: 

• happiness and joy
• weakness and failure
• failure and thunderstorms
• snakes and locusts

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Okonkwo was exiled from the clan for seven years because he: 

• was too drunk on palm wine
• attacked his second wife
• accidentally killed a clansman
• is seeking a fourth title

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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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The white men brought with them: 

• a mall
• a church
• a bulldozer
• smallpox

When Enoch unmasks an egwugwu, the clan responds by: 

• revoking his titles
• hanging him
• burning down the church
• exiling him

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When confronted by a court messenger at a meeting of the clan, Okonkwo:

• offers a kola nut
• yells for an hour
• chops the messenger's head off
• wrestles with him

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At the end of the novel, Achebe changes the narrator to: 

• the District Commissioner
• Ekwefi
• Nwoye
• Ikemefuna

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During the Week of Peace, Okonkwo:

• beats his wife
• accidentally shoots a clansman
• cuts down a palm tree
• refuses to share kola nut with Obierika

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