Who Am I?
Who was Okonkwo’s beautiful second wife?
Ekwefi
Why doesn’t Okonkwo think well of his father?
He was a failure who lived in debt and poverty
“If a man comes into my hut and defecates on the floor, what do I do? Do I shut my eyes? No! I take a stick and break his head. That is what a man does!”
Okonkwo
At 18 years old, Okonkwo became a village hero. How?
Won a wrestling match
Why do the village elders decide to kill Ikemefuna?
The Oracle told them to
Who was the priestess of Agbala?
Chielo
Who are Ezinma’s parents?
Okonkwo and Ekwefi
“One could write almost a whole chapter on him. Perhaps not a whole chapter but a reasonable paragraph at any rate.”
The District Commissioner
Why are the villagers happy about the arrival of the locusts?
They eat them
How does Nwoye feel about Ikenefuna?
He admires and loves him
Who unmasks an egwugwu?
Enoch
Who was the translator who kept referring to himself as “My Buttocks?”
Mr. Kiaga
“It’s true that a child belongs to its father. But when a father beats his child, it seeks sympathy in its mother’s hut.”
Uchendu
What favor does Nwakibie do for Okonkwo?
Lend him some seed yams
Why does Okonkwo almost shoot Ekwefi?
she makes a comment that Okonkwo views as a challenge to his masculinity
Who is accused of killing a sacred python, but denies the accusations?
Okoli
Who are the only two characters in the book to successfully scold Okonkwo without him retaliating in anger?
Uchendu and Obierika
Tell them to go away from here. This is the house of God and I will not live to see it desecrated.”
Rev. Smith
What do the egwugwu do to punish Enoch for his crime?
they burn down the church and his home
The rumored death of what sacred animal causes the village of Mbanta to ostracize the Christians?
the python
Who was Okonkwo’s third wife?
Ojiugo
At whose funeral does Okonkwo commit his “female crime” of murder?
Ezeudu
“If I were you, I would have stayed at home. What you have done does not please the Earth. It is the kind of action for which the goddess wipes out whole families.”
Obierika
What happens to the young girl given to Umuofia by Mbaino?
she is given to a Umuofian man to be his wife
How do Okonkwo and the other Umuofian leaders escape from the Europeans’ jail?
They pay a heafty fine of 250 bags of cowries