Culture
The number of wine pots brought to the betrothal ceremony.
What is 50 pots?
The Missionary that prohibits his followers from antagonizing the natives. He is understanding and often has discussions with the clan's leaders.
What is Mr.Brown?
The name of Okonkwo's motherland, where he and his family are sent to exile.
What is Mbanta?
"Can you tell me, Okonkwo, why is it that one of the commonest names we give our children is Nneka, or 'Mother Supreme?'"
What is Uchendu is speaking to Okonkwo about why he should not depressed to be in his motherland?
What does Okonkwo do to the messenger that tells the clan to disperse their town meeting in Umuofia?
He chops off his head with a machete.
The instrument used to announce Okonkwo's death.
What is an ekwe?
The Missionary that replaces the previous, kind and understanding one. He is intolerant and strict.
Who is Reverend James Smith?
The place the villagers allow the missionaries to build there church.
What is the Evil Forest?
"The three white men and a very large number of other men surrounded the market. They must have used a powerful medicine to make themselves invisible until the market was full."
What is Obierika is explaining the massacre at Abame to Okonkwo?
Why did the villagers of Abame kill the white man who visited him on his "iron horse?"
They asked the Oracle and it said to kill him because the white men would spread like a plague and cause destruction to all the villages.
The crime against mother goddess that Okonkwo committed.
What is killing a clansman?
The white missionary's interpreter, who eventually becomes the head of the mission in Mbanta.
Mr. Kiaga
The place Mr.Smith sends Okonkwo and the other leaders of the clan for the burning of the church.
What is the District Commissioner's jail?
"We shall give them a piece of land... Let us give them a portion of the Evil Forest."
What is Uchendu is speaking to his peers about where to allow the missionaries to build their church?
Who tries to join the church that causes big problems with the current members? They eventually become the church's strongest followers.
The outcasts - or Osu.
Considered evil, _________ are often thrown away.
What is twins?
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 were so impressed that they ________.
What is converted?
The place Okonkwo's body is found.
What is hanging from a tree behind his compound?
"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."
What is Okonkwo is speaking to the other village leaders about how they should fight back against the missionaries?
Why did Okonkwo kill himself?
He had lost his titles, his son, his former glory, his farm, his compound, his manhood, and the fighting spirit of his tribe.
The oracle's overall job in the nine villages.
What is the Oracle ultimately determines important decisions for the village because the priestess acts as a medium for the gods?
Okonkwo's family member that joined the missionaries.
What is Nwoye?
The name of the village that is slaughtered by white foreigners.
What is Abame?
"Chukwu is the only God and all others are false. You carve a piece of wood... and you call it a god. But it is still a piece of wood."
What is Mr. Brown is speaking to Akunna, the clan's leader and expert on religion?
What is the significance of ending the book with Mr. Smith thinking about how Okonkwo will make a good paragraph in his book?
It is Achebe's commentary on how skewed the perception of Africa is. He can write an entire book on Okonkwo, while the Western world will only know the "paragraph ver