Quiz on Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Achebe felt he spent his childhood at the....

Achebe wanted to counter the traditional European view of Africans with human picture that

At the beginning of the book we hear that, for the Igbo, the land of the living was not far removed from....

• the domain of the ancestors

• the domain of the forgotten

• the domain of the dead

• Castelldefels

Could Igbo society be described as....

• functional

• dysfunctional

The British didn't understand Igbo culture and so tried to replace it with their own forms of...

The novel condemns both the British and Igbo systems without ambiguity

• true

• false

Europeans usually imagined Africans as...

• savages

• innocents

• either /or

Okonkwo urges....

• resistance

• acceptance

What did colonies provide Europeans with

• raw materials

• new markets

• both

the three c's were

• commerce, christianity and civilisation

• christ, christ and christ

• chocolate, christ and civilisation