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Achebe Facts
TFA Facts
"The Center Cannot Hold"
Achebe the influencer
Miscellaneous
100
Achebe's school was modeled after the system of what country?
What is British?
100
Name of central character in Things Fall Apart?
What is Okonkwo?
100
Fill in the blank: "The falcon cannot hear the _______."
What is falconer?
100
"Things Fall Apart" is the _________ of African literature. What is the name of that novel?
What is "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
100
Achebe's country of origin
What is Nigeria?
200
Besides novelist, what was Achebe's profession?
What is college professor?
200
Number of years the central character in TFA spends in exile.
What is seven years.
200
Fill in the blank: "Above all, TFA is about the strength that human beings find in ___________."
What is community?
200
Name three themes we can expect to see in TFA?
What is (any of these) nature, religion, myth, gender, history, culture, traditional masculinity, colonialism.
200
Length of time Things Fall Apart has been in print.
What is fifty years?
300
What side (winning or losing) did Achebe back in his country's Biafran conflict?
What is the losing side?
300
What is the position of the central character in TFA?
What is clan leader?
300
The way in which Achebe dealt with his paralyzing accident.
What is humor and stoicism?
300
What role does Achebe play to generations of African writers?
What is mentor?
300
The genre of Things Fall Apart
What is novel?
400
What language did Achebe choose to write TFA in ?
What is English?
400
Who threatens to change the community in TFA?
Who are Christian Missionaries?
400
Fill in the blank: "Mere __________ is loosed upon the world>
What is anarchy?
400
Achebe said these people had "pulled a fast one" on him.
Who are British authors?
400
Things Fall Apart is similar to Medea, because it follows this form...
What is Greek tragedy?
500
Who said this about Achebe?: "The writer in whose company the prison walls came down."
Who is Nelson Mandela?
500
What is the "-ism" that Achebe grabbed onto in TFA?
What is colonialism?
500
According to Kevin Smokler, what fear does Achebe, Yeats, and Didion write about?
What is fear of an uncertain future?
500
What type of storytelling influenced Achebe?
What is folktales?
500
Name of the Irish poet who wrote "The Second Coming"
What is William Butler Yeats?