Things Fall Apart Chapter 25 Quiz

Things Fall Apart Chapter 25 questions

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1. What does the Commissioner find when Obierika leads him behind the compound?
   Okonkwo's barn and huts newly burnt · Okonkwo waiting with his machete drawn · Okonkwo's body hanging from a tree · Okonkwo's wives weeping at a fresh grave
2. Why must strangers take Okonkwo's body down?
   The Commissioner has forbidden the clan to approach it · Only titled men may handle a dead man of two titles · His sons have all gone over to the new religion · Suicide offends the earth, so kinsmen may not touch him
3. What does Obierika say to the Commissioner over the body?
   That the white man's rule drove a great man to this · That Okonkwo should have been given a fair trial · That the clan will pay any fine the court demands · That Okonkwo had been mad since his return home
4. What is the effect of the novel ending inside the Commissioner's thoughts?
   It leaves the reader unsure whether Okonkwo really died · A whole life shrinks to material for a stranger's book · It confirms that the clan welcomed the new government · It shows the Commissioner moved by what he has seen
5. What does the Commissioner's reflection on his book suggest about colonial accounts?
   They record local custom with scrupulous accuracy · They are written mainly to justify military spending · They reduce the colonised to proofs of a thesis · They depend on interpreters for all of their detail

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Original questions written for Pagine. This book is in copyright, so questions paraphrase rather than quote it.