Characters
This character is refered to as "ill-fated."
Who is Ikemefuna?
This is the reason Ikemefuna was given to Umuofia.
What is a sacrifice to avoid war?
This is the reason white missionaries wanted to come to Igboland.
What is the desire to convert the Igbo people to Christianity?
This is why Okonkwo got in trouble for beating his wife during the Week of Peace.
Why is it important that the people not commit violence and disrespect Ani?
This is the reason Ikemefuna has to be killed.
This character is Okonkwo's best friend.
Who is Obierika?
This is the reason Okonkwo was exiled.
What is the consequence of Okonkwo killing a member of his clan?
These are the eqwugwu.
Who are masked representations of the tribe's spiritual ancestors?
This is the reaction of the clans men when they learn of Okonkwo's death.
Why were the clans men brokenhearted by the death of a warrior?
This is what Uchendu claims the role of the mother is in chapter 14.
1. To punish
2. To support
3. To protect
4. To feed
What is the role of protecting the child?
This is Okonkwo's favorite child.
Who is Enzima?
This is the reason that Okonkwo and six others were imprisoned.
What is setting the church on fire?
These were the types of people that were initially drawn to Christianity.
Who are the outcasts/low-titled men and others like Nwoye, Enoch, and Nneka?
This is how you could describe Okonkwo's relationship with his second wife, Ekwefi.
What could be described as strict and distant but still having genuine care?
This how the Igbo people celebrate Ani, the earth goddess.
What is the Feast of the New Yam festival?
This is Okonkwo's uncle who tries to teach him the value of family.
Who is Uchendu?
This is how we learn Nwoye has joined the missionaries in Umuofia.
What is Obierika's second visit to Okonkwo in exile?
This is the reason why the white men had to cut down Okonkwo's body at the end of the book.
What is Okonkwo's body being evil and only strangers can cut it down?
This is why Okonkwo fears for Nwoye.
What is the result of Okonkwo thinking Nwoye is too much like Unoka?
This is why the court messengers raise the fine from 200 coweries to 250 coweries.
What is to make a profit for themselves?
This is the missionary who takes time to understand the Igbo.
Who is Mr. Brown?
This was Nwoye's reaction to learning about Ikemefuna's death. (Specific quote needed)
What is "feeling a snapping inside him"?
What is government?
In chapter 2, these two things are identified as the things Okonkwo fears most.
What are failure and weakness?
These are some reasons for Okonkwo's death.
What is the loss of his family, the destruction of Igbo Culture, inability to accept change, and the symbolic death of tradition?