Who Am I?
Characteristics of Characters
They Said It
The Plot
A Mixed Bag of Okonkwo
100

Who was Okonkwo’s beautiful second wife?

Ekwefi

100

Why doesn’t Okonkwo think well of his father?

He was a failure who lived in debt and poverty

100

“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

100

At 18 years old, Okonkwo became a village hero. How?

Won a wrestling match

100

Why do the village elders decide to kill Ikemefuna?

The Oracle told them to

200

Who was the priestess of Agbala?

Chielo

200

Who are Ezinma’s parents?

Okonkwo and Ekwefi

200

“One could write almost a whole chapter on him.  Perhaps not a whole chapter but a reasonable paragraph at any rate.”

The District Commissioner 

200

Why are the villagers happy about the arrival of the locusts?

They eat them

200

How does Nwoye feel about Ikenefuna?

He admires and loves him

300

Who unmasks an egwugwu?

Enoch

300

Who was the translator who kept referring to himself as “My Buttocks?”

Mr. Kiaga

300

“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

300

What favor does Nwakibie do for Okonkwo?

Lend him some seed yams

300

Why does Okonkwo almost shoot Ekwefi?

she makes a comment that Okonkwo views as a challenge to his masculinity

400

Who is accused of killing a sacred python, but denies the accusations?

Okoli

400

Who are the only two characters in the book to successfully scold Okonkwo without him retaliating in anger?

Uchendu and Obierika

400

Tell them to go away from here.  This is the house of God and I will not live to see it desecrated.”

Rev. Smith

400

What do the egwugwu do to punish Enoch for his crime?

they burn down the church and his home

400

The rumored death of what sacred animal causes the village of Mbanta to ostracize the Christians?

the python

500

Who was Okonkwo’s third wife?

Ojiugo

500

At whose funeral does Okonkwo commit his “female crime” of murder?

Ezeudu

500

“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

500

What happens to the young girl given to Umuofia by Mbaino?

she is given to a Umuofian man to be his wife

500

How do Okonkwo and the other Umuofian leaders escape from the Europeans’ jail?

They pay a heafty fine of 250 bags of cowries

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