Okonkwo
Unoka
Culture Deep Dive
Village Drama
Family Matters
100
3 physical characteristics of Okonkwo:
hint: take a look at Chapter One top of Page 14
Acceptable responses: What is...?
-Tall -Huge -Strong
-Bushy eyebrows - Wide nose -Severe look
100
3 physical characteristics of Unoka:
hint: take a look at Chapter One bottom of Page 14
Acceptable responses: What is...?
-Tall -Thin
-Mournful look -Haggard
-Weak -Slight Stoop
100
This crop is very important to the Igbo people and is considered a man's crop...
What is...
Yams?
100
Okonkwo's village is named...
What is...
Umuofia?
100
Who is Okonkwo's son by blood? (His biological son)
Nwoye or Ikemefuna
What is...
Nwoye?
200
Okonkwo ruled his household with...
Hint: Take a look at Chapter 2 page 23
What is...
a heavy hand?
200
Unoka's favorite activities include...
What is...
drinking, gambling, and playing the flute?
200
This farming season has brought nothing but heavy rain and flooding.
All yam seeds have rotted beneath the earth.
Your group has lost 200 Yam seeds to the relentless rain.
200
Your neighbor stops by your hut to share a Kola nut.
You begin to discuss this season's upcoming harvest.
You have built trust with your neighbor and they kindly gift you 200 yam seeds.
200
Ikemefuna got taken because his father...
What is...
killed a woman from Umuofia?
300
Okonkwo resented (hated) his father for being...
Look at the middle of Page 23
What is...
"he had resented his father's failure and weakness" (Achebe 23).
300
3 internal characteristics of Unoka (Personality, Behavior, Effect on others, or Emotions)
hint: take a look at pages 14, 15, 16, and 23
or look at your Chapters 1-2 Attention to Details Sheet
- Lazy -Improvident - Debtor
- Carefree - Failure - Loafer
- Agbala -Weak - Title-less -Coward
-Poor
300
Agbala means...
Hint: Look at page 23
What is...
a derogatory term for a woman OR a man who has taken no title.
300
The rain has persisted for weeks and weeks now.
All of the yams seeds this harvest season have rotted under the ground and need to be dug up.
Your group has lost 300 yam seeds.
300
Your kind neighbor Nwakibie trusts you and gifts you 300 yam seeds to help rebuild your farm.
Your group has been gifted 300 yam seeds, use them wisely.
400
3 internal characteristics of Okonkwo (Personality, Behavior, Effect on others, or Emotions)
hint: take a look at pages 13, 14, 18, and 23
or look at your Chapters 1-2 Attention to Details Sheet
Acceptable responses: What is...?
- Impatient - Angry - Famous
-Successful -Hardworking -Heavy handed
-Fearful
400
In Chapter One, how many years have passed since Unoka died?
Hint: Take a look at page 14
What is...
10 years?
400
Cowries are...
hint: Look at your Chapters 1-2 Cheat Sheet
What is...
Shells used as a form of currency or money!
400
This story is set in a fictional village in the country now known as...
What is...
Nigeria?
400
12 year old Nwoye causes Okonkwo great anxiety because...
Hint: Look at Chapter 2 (top of page 24)
What is...Nwoye is starting to show signs of "incipient laziness" like Unoka.
500
The number of Okonkwo's wives and children are...
Hint: Somewhere near the end of Chapter 2
What is...
Three wives and eight children?
500
A major drought has devastated Umuofia!
Many yam seeds failed to grow this season.
Your group has lost 500 yam seeds.
500
This season has been wonderful for agriculture!
A perfect balance of sun and rain has granted you 500 perfect yam seeds!
500
"Umoufia was feared by all its neighbors" because...
Hint: Chapter 2 bottom of Page 21
"It was powerful in war and in magic, and its priests and medicine men were feared in all the surrounding country"
500
The village Ikemefuna got taken from is called...
What is...
Mbaino?