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WorksheetsThings Fall Apart Plot Quiz
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 25mins
The story Things Fall Apart begins with Okonkwo
Killing a man and cutting off his head
Eating a cat
Beating Amalinze the Cat in a wrestling match
In the story, the narrator states, "Okonkwo did not have the start in life which many young men had" (Achebe 18). What does this imply about Okonkwo's family?
His father was unable to pass down wealth to him.
Okonkwo grew up in his Motherland instead of his Fatherland.
Okonkwo was a wicked child, therefore his family cast him out when he was young.
In chapter four, Okonkwo beat one of his wives. Which of the following scenarios below describes the TIME, PLACE, and PEOPLE INVOLVED in the situation in which the wife was beaten.
It was when the locust came. His first wife defends her son Nwoye against Okonkwo's rebuke and she is beaten for openly challenging him.
It was during the Feast of the New Yam. His second wife, Ekwefi tore a few leaves from a banana tree to wrap food. This angered Okonkwo and he beat her for what he deemed vandalism.
It was the during the Week of Peace. His third wife, Ojiugo had not prepared a meal for Okonkwo and the children before going to have her hair braided by a friend and was late getting home, which angered Okonkwo.
In which of the following chapters do we learn more about the wrestling matches that take place during the Feast of the New Yam?
Chapter Two
Chapter Six
Chapter Eight
When we first meet Ikemefuna, he is still in his home village of Mbaino. Why is he taken away from his home and brought to Umuofia?
To learn the customs of the grandees so that he can one day serve as an egwugwu.
As penance and a tribute to Umuofia for his father's crime.
To be a playmate for Nwoye.
When Ikemefuna leaves his village with Okonkwo, the narrator says that "[all] he knew was that a few men had arrived at [his] house, conversing with his father in low tones, and at the end he had been taken out..."
He experiences a similar event later in his life. When was this?
When the group of men came to take him away to kill him.
When he went with Okonkwo to the engagement ceremony of Obierika's daughter.
When his father came to Umuofia to negotiate his return to Mbaino.
In chapter nine we learn more about the ogbanje. Which of the following facts is NOT TRUE of an ogbanje.
They are linked to the earth by their iyi-uwa and as long as it is not destroyed, the obanje can return.
The iyi-uwa is a mere pebble, wrapped in a cloth, that is buried by the obanje at some point in their life.
The only way to destroy an iyi-uwa is to make a sacrifice to the Earth Goddess and then burn it upon her alter.
A mysterious and exciting point in the story is when someone takes away one of Okonkwo's children. WHICH CHILD was taken and by WHOM and WHERE did they go?
Ezinma was taken by Chielo and she was taken straight to the Oracle of Agbala's cave.
Nwoye was taken by Ikemefuna's father and he was taken to Mbaino to live with his family.
Ezinma was taken by Chielo and she was taken on a long and precarious journey through the forest that ended at the Oracle of Agbala's cave.
The climax of the story is when...
Ikemefuna arrives in Umuofia
Okonkwo commits an ochu when he accidentally kills Ezeudu's 16-year-old son.
Okonkwo returns home to Umuofia after seven years.
True of False: While in exile, Okonkwo has more children with his wives.
True
False
Which of the following British missionaries arrive in Nigeria, near the villages of the nine clans, first?
Mr. Brown
Mr. Smith
When Obierika first visits Okonkwo, after his exile, at his Motherland home, he brings news of an event. Which of the following events did Okonkwo and his uncle, Uchendu, find disturbing?
In Umuofia, Okonkwo's son joined the Christians and renounced his father.
In Mbanta, another daughter of Umuofia was killed during a market day and the clans went to war.
In Mbanta, men and women were slaughtered in the market by colonist after they killed a British scout and tied up his iron horse.
True or False: The Christian missionaries won many converts in Umuofia. These converts were a mix of titled men, outcasts, and women.
True
False
Which of the following characters, in defiance of their father, killed the sacred python and ate it.
Nwoye
Nneka
Enoch
In part three, a character commits an unspeakable and shameful act. WHO is the CHARACTER and WHAT does the character DO that is forbidden among the Igbo?
Enoch unmasks an egwugwu.
Okonkwo kills his third wife without cause.
Mr. Smith grows a garden in the Evil Forest.
The title of Chinua Achebe's novel is Things Fall Apart. In a short response, summarize chapters 23-25. Next, answer the following question: How does the ending connect to the title, Things Fall Apart?
