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Culture and Traditions
Setting
Characters
Events
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100
Clan members often use maxims or _______ when they speak.
Proverbs
100
The novel is set in the country now called _________.
Nigeria
100

Considered a lazy man who died in debt, this character is responsible for making Okonkwo who he is today!

Unoka

100
In Chapter 2, a man in Mbaino murders a young girl. To avoid war with Umuofia, Mbaino sacrifices these two people!

Young man and a virgin

100
Who is the author of Things Fall Apart?
Chinua Achebe
200

Considered evil, ______ are often thrown away at birth.

Twins

200
Okonkwo lives in the nine villages of ___________.
Umuofia
200

Okonkwo is considered a famous warrior who gained his fame by throwing which character?

Amalinze The Cat

200

"Dazed with ____, Okonkwo drew his machete and cut him down. He was afraid of being thought weak."

Fear
200

This crop is a staple in the Igbo tribe: people call it a "man's crop"

Yams

300

Before a marriage, the _______ must be negotiated.

Bride-price

300

After Okonkwo is exiled, he must go back to his motherland of _____

Mbanta

300

Okonkwo was told, though he did not listen, to not participate in the death of this person

Ikemefuna

300

A wife runs away and accuses her husband of beating her so hard that she miscarries. What must the husband bring to fix their marriage?

Wine

300

The first white man comes riding on an iron horse. The villagers don't know what we know: it's actually a ___

Bicycle

400

_________ are humans in disguise. They represent the nine spirits of the ancestors.

Egwugwu

400
Where did the villagers allow the missionaries to build there church?
The Evil Forest
400

This character prefers his mother's gentle folktales to his father's violent stories.

Nwoye

400
In Chapter 16, the white man's translator has a weird dialect (or accent). Instead of saying "myself," he keeps saying...

"My buttocks"

400

During special occasions, people gather and break this food!

Kola Nut

500

Ezinma, Okonkwo's fave daughter is a ___________: a child who repeatedly dies and is reborn.

Ogbanje (changeling)

500

This was the FIRST village to be destroyed by the "white men."

Abame

500

After Mr. Brown dies, this white man comes to replace him. (He was harsh and intolerant of the villagers' beliefs.)

Reverend John Smith

500

After Okonkwo's death, the District Commissioner (aka the white man in charge) thinks his story should be part of his book. He thinks he can write an entire ____ about Okonkwo.

Paragraph

500

This animal is killed by a Christian convert, insulting Okonkwo and the entire Igbo clan.

The royal python