Quotes - Things Fall Apart

Question 1

Which quotes show Okonkwo’s masculinity and prosperity?

Answer 1

• “Two barns full of yams”
• “Proud and imperious”
• “Emissary of war”
• “Wrestler”
• “Obi”
• “Three Wives”
• “Not a man…in the wrong”

Question 2

Which quotes how Okonkwo is as a father?

Answer 2

• “Heavy hand”
• “Lived in perpetual fear”
• “Treated Ikemefuna like a son”

Question 3

Which quotes show Obierika’s nature?

Answer 3

• “Better things to do”
• “Who knows what may happen tomorrow”
• “Thought about things”
• “You sound as though you question the authority of The Oracle”
• “I dont know how we got that law”

Question 4

Which quotes show the relationship between Ekwefi and Ezinma?

Answer 4

• “Story of the turtle and the birds”
• “Eating eggs in the bedroom”
• “Nma”
• “Ezigbo”
• “Ogbanje”
• “A companionship of equals”
• “Birth…mere physical agony, devoid of promise”

Question 5

Which quotes show Okonkwo’s inner worries and hamartia?

Answer 5

• “Slight stammer”
• “His life was ruled by fear, a fear of failure and of weakness”
• “Inwardly”
• “Unoka”
• “He did not want to be thought of as weak”
• “Abomination”
• “Agabala”
• “Not buried but cast into the Evil Forest”

Question 6

Which quotes show Ibo religion and traditions?

Answer 6

• “Earth goddess”
• “Week of peace”
• “Shrine”
• “Oracle”
• “Egwugwu”
• “Evil Forest”
• “iyi-uwa”

Question 7

Which quotes show the naivety of the Ibo People in terms of the introduction of the White Men?

Answer 7

• “An albino”
• “He seemed to speak through his nose”
• White like this piece of chalk”
• “Have no toes”
• “The strange man would break their clan”
• “At first the clan had assumed it would not survive”
• “They allowed the white men to build their church in the Evil Forest”
• “Locusts”