Historical Context
Literary Devices
Themes
Characters and Plot
Author
100

Enugu was at the center of this during the short story "Civil Peace"

What is a Civil War?

100
The literary element illustrated in the title of the short story "Civil Peace", which took place during a time of warfare
What is irony?
100
The phrase used to relate a theme of faith in the short story "Civil Peace"
What is 'Nothing puzzles God'?
100
Jonathan's wife
Who is Maria?
100
The year the author was born
What is 1930?
200
The year Civil War broke out in Nigeria
What is 1967?
200
An example of repetition in the short story "Civil Peace"
What is "Nothing Puzzles God"?
200
The optimistic phrase Jonathan uses to greet people
What is 'Happy Survival'?
200
The phrase repeated throughout the short story "Civil Peace"
What is "Nothing puzzles God"?
200
The name of the author
What is Chinua Achebe?
300
The name eastern Nigeria gave itself when it declared itself independent from the country of Nigeria
What is the Republic of Biafra?
300
The mentioning of Civil Peace by the robbers is ______ because they are robbing Jonathan's house
What is ironic?
300
Examples of helplessness that the war has caused (Answers may vary)
What are the robbing of Jonathan at his home and/or the robbing of the man outside of the treasury?
300
The amount of money Jonathan receives from the Treasury
What is twenty pounds?
300
The tribe that the author was born into
What is the Ibo tribe?
400
Direct results of the Civil War in Nigeria
What are famine and violence?
400
Jonathan's story about the man who's egg-rasher was stolen could __________ the thieves robbing his house
What is foreshadow?
400
With consistent ____, the Iwegba family improves its position despite setbacks.
What is work?
400
Jonathan feels _____ because he, his wife and three of his four children are alive
What is lucky?
400
The author's first and most celebrated novel
What is "Things Fall Apart"?
500
The year in which the Civil War ended
What is 1970?
500
Jonathan speaking perfect English and the thieves speaking only broken English are examples of _______ in the short story
What is dialect?
500
Officials cannot be trusted because Jonathan and his family called for the ______ when their house was being robbed.
What are the police?
500
The two jobs Jonathan worked to make ends meet during the short story "Civil Peace"
What are taxiing and bar tending for soldiers?
500
The corporation in which the author sought to teach and direct within
What is the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation?
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