Thing Fall Apart Unit Test (Chapter 14-25)

On his next visit two years later, Obierika said the missionaries had come to Umuofia.

• True
• False

Okonkwo was concerned that Nwoye and his other male children would abandon their ancestors. He pictured himself and his fathers waiting in vain for worship and sacrifice.

• True
• False

The villagers gave the missionaries a piece of the best land in the village because it was their custom to be polite to newcomers.

• True
• False

One of the elders told the younger clan members he feared for their generation because they didn’t understand how strong the bonds of kinship should be. He was concerned because they had let this strange religion start to break apart their clans.

• True
• False

Many of the other villagers liked the trading store and the resultant money that was coming into Umuofia. They were also starting to think that the religion had some substance.

• True
• False

Okonkwo was grieving mostly because he never got the opportunity to regain his former status.

• True
• False

Where did Okonkwo take his family to live?

• A. He took them to live with his father’s people.
• B. He took them to live with his mother’s kinsmen.
• C. He sent all of his wives back to their own villages and went to live with a friend.
• D. He took them to live in the wilderness between his village and the next.

Uchendu talked to Okonkwo about the Mother Supreme. Which of the following was not one of the points he made?

• A. He wanted Okonkwo to realize that his despair, comparatively, was not that great.
• B. He said Okonkwo owed it to his family to comfort and support them.
• C. He said this was Okonkwo’s chance to start over where no one would compare him to to his father.
• D. He told Okonkwo not to refuse comfort in his mother’s homeland, or he would displease the dead.

Who came to visit Okonkwo during the second year of exile, and why?

• A. Chielo came to bless them and check on Ezinma’s health.
• B. Ojiugo’s parents came to bring them gifts.
• C. Obierika came to bring Okonkwo news of the village and money from the yam crop he was tending until Okonkwo returned home.
• D. Ezeudu’s clansmen came to make sure Okonkwo was still in exile.

Why was the village of Abame destroyed?

• A. The elders killed a white man who had come into the town, and other white men destroyed the village in retribution.
• B. The other villages were jealous of their wealth, so they killed the people and stole the money and property.
• C. There had been a bad outbreak of iba. The village elders decided the town had to be burned down in order to save the surrounding villages.
• D. There had been an uprising between two families. It got out of hand, and they destroyed each other and everyone else in the process.