Literature

People

100

Unoka is described as all of the following except

a. lazy and improvident

b. incapable of thinking of tomorrow

c. a debtor

d. industrious

e. musical

d. industrious

200

What character in the novel seems to offer okonkwo a different view of what is to be masculine when they discuss the involvement of the men of the village with Ikemefuna's death?

a. obierika

b. nwoye

c. ezinma

d. nwakibie

e. he district commissioner

A. obierika

300

Who was thought to be the ogbanje child?

a. nwoye

b. ikemefuna

c. ezinma

d. ekwefi

e. akunna

c. ezinma

400

who was killed when okonkwo's gun exploded?

a. nwoye

b. one of okonkwo's sons

c. one of obierika's sons

d. one of Ezeudu's sons

e. ojiugo

d. one of ezeudu's sons

500

who insisted that okonkwo stop beating nwoye when he learned that his son had gone to the missionaries church?

a. obierika

b. chielo

c. unoka

d. ojiugo

e. uchendu

e. uchendu

Selected Works

100

what question ends "the return?"

a. why should all the changes have waited for my return?

b. where has my wife gone?

c. should i drown myself in the river?

d. how can I seek vengeance on Karanja?

e. Where are my brothers.

a. why should all the changes have waited for my return?

200

in "the message," where is Maami Amfoa going?

a. accra

b. tamale

c. teshie

d. dome

e. Cape coast

e. cape coast

300

in the story, "The Message," which character represents hybridity?

a. Maami Amfoa

b. the village women

c. the man on the bus

d. the lorry driver

e. the nurse at the hospital

d. the lorry driver

400

in "comrades" how did the young men enter Mrs. Telford's house?

a. through the front door

b. first through the guest house

c. through the garage

d. in a side door through the living room

e. through the kitchen entrance

e. through the kitchen entrance

500

In "comrades," why is Mrs. Telford unable to speak to all of the young men?

a. she is too nervous to speak to them

b. not all of the young men come inside of the house

c. the leader of the group does not seem to allow it

d. not all the young men speak english

e. she finds some of them offensive, and she cannot bring herself to speak to them.

d. not all the young men speak english

Events

100

What punishment did Okonkwo receive for breaking the week of peace?

a. he was temporarily banished from the village

b. he was beaten with the staff of the earth goddess

c. he was not allowed to eat yams from the new harvest

d. he was required to bring a goat, hen, cloth, and cowries to the shrine of ani.

e. he was forbidden from asking for Ani's blessing upon his crops

d. he was required to bring a goat, hen, cloth, and cowries to the shrine of Ani.

200

What moral does the fable of the tortoise and the birds explain?

a. do not gossip

b. have courage

c. do not judge others

d. do not be greedy

e. be tolerant of differences.

d. do not be greedy

300

When Okonkwo arrives at the oracle of the hills and caves, ekwefi is reminded of an event from when she was younger. what does she think of?

a. ezinma's birth

b. running away to become okonkwo's wife

c. the first wrestling match okonkwo was too old to participate in

d. her mother bringing her to the oracle as a child

e. preparing yams for the feast of the new yam festival

b. running away to become oknokwo's wife

400

What caused the mother of spirits to walk through the clan, making a "strange and fearful sound?"

a. a sacred animal had been killed

b. ezinma was killed

c. enoch removed the mask of an egwugwu

d. the district commissioner jailed several men of title

e. the yam harvest was ruined in a drought

c. enoch removed the mask of an egwugwu

500

How did the Mbanta react when the missionaries told the clansman that their gods were harmless?

a. laughed joyously

b. laughed derisively

c. became immediately fearful

d. wept openly

e. did nothing

b. laughed derisively

Terminology

100

The title for Things Fall Apart comes from a poem from which writer?

a. George Gordon Byron

b. T.S. Eliot

c. John Keats

d. Percy Bysshe Shelly

e. W.B. Yeats

e. W.B. yeats

200

What is an ogene?

a. a town gossip

b. a gong

c. an ancestor

d. a doctor

e. a religious official

b. a gong

300

what harmed Okonkwo's crop of seed-yams that he borrowed from Mwakibie

a. locusts

b. blight

c. drought

d. snails

e. worms

c. drought

400

The oracle of Abame compared white men to what creature as it warned the villagers of the future?

a. wolves

b. dogs

c. leopards

d. hyenas

e. locusts

e. locusts

500

One of the osu converts killed a sacred animal representing the god of water. What was this animal?

a. fish

b. frog

c. python

d. crocodile

e. hippopotamus

c. python

Other

100

Who is credited with creating the term "neocolonialism?"

a. Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of the newly independent Ghana

b. Simon Gikandi, Kenyan professor and postcolonial scholar

c. Chinua Achebe

d. Winston Churchill

e. Harry S. Truman

a. Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of the newly independent Ghana

200

In his analysis of Conrad's comparison between the thames and the Conco, achebe utilizes what literary device?

a. personification

b. anachronism

c. flashback

d. humor

e. parody

a. personification

300

Achebe argues that the most revealing passages in "heart of darkness," are about?

a. nature

b. people

c. weather

d. urban areas

e. rural areas

b. people

400

in "the return," prior to walking down the road, Kamau had been where?

a. in the city

b. visiting his family

c. in detention camps

d. somewhere in Europe

e. planting crops

c. in detention camps

500

What was not at his home that Kamau expected upon his return in the story "The Return?"

a. his father

b. his wife

c. his mother

d. his brother

e. his children

b. his wife