Things Fall Apart

Where did Okonkwo take his family to live?

• He took them to live in the wilderness between his village and the next.

• He sent all of his wives back to their own villages and went to live with a friend.

• He took them to live with his mother’s kinsmen.

• He took them to live with his father’s people.

True or False: Okonkwo thought his personal god or chi was not meant for great things. He was feeling despair.

• True

• False

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

• He told Okonkwo not to refuse comfort in his mother’s homeland, or he would displease the dead.

• He said this was Okonkwo’s chance to start over where no one would compare him to to his father.

• He wanted Okonkwo to realize that his despair, comparatively, was not that great.

• He said Okonkwo owed it to his family to comfort and support them.

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

• Ezeudu’s clansmen came to make sure Okonkwo was still in exile.

• Obierika came to bring Okonkwo news of the village and money from the yam crop he was tending until Okonkwo returned home.

• Ojiugo’s parents came to bring them gifts.

• Chielo came to bless them and check on Ezinma’s health.

Why was the village of Abame destroyed?

• There had been an uprising between two families. It got out of hand, and they destroyed each other and everyone else in the process.

• 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.

• The other villages were jealous of their wealth, so they killed the people and stole the money and property.

• The elders killed a white man who had come into the town, and other white men destroyed the village in retribution.

What was Obierika’s reaction to the story about Abame being destroyed?

• He said he was afraid, because he had heard other such stories.

• He didn’t believe it at all. He said it was nonsense dreamed up by women.

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

• True

• False

Who had Obierika found among the missionaries?

• He had found his son, Maduka.

• He had found Uchendu.

• He had found Okonkwo’s son, Nwoye.

• He had found his youngest wife and her children.

What was the iron horse?

• It was a bicycle.

• It was a walking stick made of aluminum.

• It was an automobile.

• It was the new railroad that the whites were building with slave labor.

True or 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