Culture and Traditions
Setting
Characters
Events
Who said it?
100

Clan members often use maxims or _______ when they speak.

Proverbs

100

The novel is set in the country now called _________.

Nigeria

100

Okonkwo is considered a famous warrior who gained his fame by throwing which character?

Amalinze "the cat"

100

It was assumed that the missionaries would be killed by the evil spirits in the Evil Forest. Instead, nothing happened to them and some of the people ________.

Converted

100

"[I]s it true that when people are grown up, fire does not burn them?"

Ezinma

200

Considered evil, _________ are often thrown away.

Twins

200

Okonkwo lives in the nine villages of ___________.

Umuofia

200

Considered a lazy man who died in debt, this character is (in some ways) responsible for making Okonkwo the successful, harsh man he is today. Who is this?

Unoka

200
What did Okonkwo ask his daughters to wait to do until they arrived back home to Umuofia?
Wait to marry
200

"We should have killed the white man if you had listened to me."

Okonkwo

300

An ___________ is a child who repeatedly dies and is reborn.

Obanjge.

300

What village was Okonkwo and his family exile to?

Mbanta

300

Okonkwo was advised, though he did not listen, to not participate in the death of which character?

Ikemefuna

300
Enoch committed an unthinkable action that no villager had ever even imagined possible. What did he do?
He unmasked an egwugwu
300

"I have brought you here because you joined together to molest others, to burn people's houses and their place of worship."

The District Commissioner

400

_________ are humans in disguise. They represent the spirits of the ancestors.

Egwugwu

400

Where did the villagers allow the missionaries to build there church?

The Evil Forest

400

This character prefers his mother's gentle folktales to his father's violent stories.

Nwoye

400
What happens to the leaders of Umuofia when they go to see the District Commissioner for a civil, friendly meeting?
They are soon jailed
400

"We have heard both sides of the case . . . Our duty is not to blame this man or to praise that, but to settle the dispute."

Evil Forest

500

Before a marriage, the _______ must be negotiated.

Bride price

500

What village was FIRST destroyed by the British?

Abame

500

Which character replaces Mr. Brown? *Hint: He was harsh and disgusted by the tolerance given to the villagers by Mr. Brown. Who was this character?

Revered John Smith

500

What natural event foreshadows the coming of the British?

The locusts
500

"There is no story that is not true . . . The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others."

Uchendu

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