Chapters 1-4
Okonkwo's fear was [...] the fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble [this person]"(13).
Who is Unoka (or his father)
The following quote describes this beloved event in Umuofia: "Dusk was already approaching when their contest began. The drums went mad and the crowds also. They surges forward as the two young men danced into the circle. The palm fronds were helpless in keeping them back"(50).
what is a wrestling match
"What you have done will not please the Earth. It is this kind of action for which the goddess wipes out whole families"(67).
What is murder Ikemefuna
Why does Okonkwo continuously go back and forth to the cave? (p112)
To look for Ezinma, Chielo, and Ekwefi
Okonkwo's oldest son.
Who is Nwoye
The Oracle of the Hills and the Caves was called this
What is Agbala
"[This holiday] was held every year before the harvest began, to honor the earth goddess and the ancestral spirits of the clan"(36).
What is The Feast of the New Yam
Ekwefi had suffered a good deal in her life. She had borne ten children and [this number] of them died"(77).
Ezuedu tells Okonkwo this during "the last time [he] had visited him"(121).
What is "that boy [Ikemefuna] calls you father...Bear no hand in his death."(57 & 121)
"Ezinma did not call her mother Nne like all children. She called her [this name]"(76).
what is Ekwefi
Okonkwo beats his 3rd wife, Ojiugo. "In his anger he had forgotten that it was [this holiday]"(29).
What is the Week of Peace
"[Okonkwo] threw down the gun and jumped into the barn, and there lay [this woman], very much shaken and frightened but quite unhurt"(39).
Who is Ekwefi or his second wife
"Okonkwo did not taste any food for [this number of] days after the death of Ikemefuna"(63).
what is two days
What happens to Ezeudu’s son after Ezeudu dies? (124)
Okonkwo accidentally shoots and kills him
Men who impersonate ancestral spirits
Who are egwugwu?
"even now he still remembered how he had suffered when a playmate had told him that his father was [this name]"(13).
what is agbala
"And then quite suddenly a shadow fell on the world, and the sun seemed hidden behind a thick cloud. Okonkwo looked up from his work and wondered if it was going to rain at such an unlikely time of the year. But almost immediately a should of joy broke out in all directions"(55), because this was happening.
What is Locusts are descending or arriving
"Everybody knew she was [this]"(80). Meaning "a child who repeatedly dies and returns to its mother to be reborn."(glossary)
what is an ogbanje
The length of time for Okonkwo's exile.
What is seven years.
The name of Okonkwo's friend: "a man who thought about things"(125).
Who is Obierika
"[Unoka] was carried to the Evil Forest and left there to die. [...] When they carried him away, he took with him [this object]"(18).
What is his flute.
Ikemefuna's last words.
What is, "My father, they have killed me!"(61).
Who are women
The type of crime that Okonkwo committed, "because it had been inadvertent"(124).
what is female crime
"They had no hatred in their hearts against Okonkwo. [...] They were merely [...doing this...] which Okonkwo had poluted with the blood of a clansman"(125).
What is cleansing (cleaning / purifying) the land.