Q 01/05

What does the District Commissioner decide Okonkwo's story deserves in his planned book?

A) A brief footnote

B) A reasonable paragraph

C) An entire chapter

D) An appendix at the back

Answer · why

B) A reasonable paragraph

A reasonable paragraph is all he allows Okonkwo in his planned 'The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger', the title that closes th...

Q 02/05

What 'iron horse' do villagers in Things Fall Apart tie to a tree after killing its white rider?

A) A motorcar

B) A bicycle

C) A steam tractor

D) A railway handcar

Answer · why

B) A bicycle

A bicycle is what the Igbo evangelists later decide the 'iron horse' must have been, tied up in case it ran off to fetch the dead man's friends. Soldi...

Q 03/05

Which wrestler, unbeaten for seven years, did Okonkwo throw at eighteen in Things Fall Apart?

A) Ikezue

B) Ogbuefi Udo

C) Amalinze

D) Maduka

Answer · why

C) Amalinze

Amalinze the Cat, unbeaten from Umuofia to Mbaino, is the man the young Okonkwo threw in a fight the old men still compared to a founding myth. That s...

Q 04/05

What accident at an elder's funeral gets Okonkwo banished from Umuofia for seven years?

A) His machete slips

B) His gun explodes

C) His torch sets a roof alight

D) His dog mauls a mourner

Answer · why

B) His gun explodes

His gun explodes during the funeral salute, and a piece of iron kills the dead man's son. Killing a clansman by accident was a 'female' crime against ...

Q 05/05

In Things Fall Apart, which land do Mbanta's elders give the missionaries, expecting them dead in four days?

A) The market square

B) A plot by the stream

C) The sacred grove

D) The Evil Forest

Answer · why

D) The Evil Forest

The Evil Forest, burial ground for evil diseases and dumping ground for dead medicine men's fetishes, was offered to the church as much as it cared to...