things fall apart chapter 1-15

What is the subject of the discussions between Mr. Brown and Akunna?

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CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

What is Okonkwo’s opinion of Christian doctrine?

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CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

What events were happening in 1950s-1960s?

• WWII

• Cold War

• Segregation

• Space Race

Uchendu thinks things were better in the old days, when people travelled outside their clan and knew the other clans

more.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.11-12.1

Okonkwo has to use all his yams to buy himself land for an obi and farming in Mbanta.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.11-12.1

This person muses on the unfairness of the fact that people suffer despite not having intended to commit any crime.

• Nwoye

• Mr. Kiaga

• Mr. Brown

• Obierika

• Okoli

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CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

What is sacred about the ancient silk-cotton tree?

• spirits of unborn children live there

• the bark can be used as medicine

• the old people prophesize when standing under the tree

• the spirit of Agbala lives in its branches

The sacred python is also called “royal.”

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

The Festival of the New Yam gives thanks to which god/goddess?

• Eshu, trickster god

• Ani, the earth goddess

• Jakuta, god of lightning

• Oko, god of farming

What sporting event is event there to watch?

• a game similar to soccer

• running

• wrestling

• nguni