Things Fall Apart

_____ is used to as a symbol for Okonkwo. (hint: he refers to himself as this symbol after Nywoye runs away)

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What character is symbolic because they are used as a sacrifice?

• Ezinma

• Ikemefuna

• Ekwefi

• Nwoye

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CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Chapter 11 tells part of the story from a different character's perspective. Which character gets the focus?

• Obierika

• Nwoye

• Ekwefi

• Ikemefuna

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What does the District Commissioner think about in the last paragraph of the book?

• how guilty he feels that Okonkwo died

• how much trouble he'll be in with his boss

• how he's afraid that the people may revolt

• how he's going to mention Okonkwo in the book he will write

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Who is the author of Things Fall Apart?

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• Chinua Achebe

• Ayn Rand

• Lord Byron

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

The novel Things Fall Apart takes place in which present day country?

• Egypt

• England

• Nigeria

• South Africa

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

The novel Things Fall Apart centers around which ethnic group in Nigeria?

• Fulani

• Hausa

• Yoruba

• Igbo

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

When was Things Fall Apart published?

• 1930

• 1958

• 1987

• 2013

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

What was was the staple crop of the Igbo people?

• yam

• Kola nut

• rice

• cassava

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CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

Why does Chielo take Ezinma?

• Because Okonkwo beat Ezinma.

• Because Chielo missed her own daughter.

•  Because the God Agbala wanted to see his daughter Ezinma.

• Because Ekwefi owed Chielo something.