Things Fall Apart Chapters 1-2 Quiz

Things Fall Apart Chapters 1-2 questions

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1. How does Okonkwo first win fame throughout the nine villages?
   By clearing the largest farm in one planting season · By taking the clan's highest title while still young · By throwing a wrestler unbeaten for seven years · By leading Umuofia's warriors in a raid on Mbaino
2. When a neighbour calls at Unoka's hut to ask for his money back, how does Unoka answer?
   He offers his flute as payment and asks for time · He denies the loan and orders the man out of the hut · He promises to repay once his own yams are harvested · He shows the debt marks on his wall and puts it off
3. The narrator explains what lies beneath Okonkwo's harshness at home. What is he most afraid of?
   Being thought to resemble his own father · Dying before his eldest son can inherit from him · Losing his barn and his titles to a bad harvest · Being thrown in the wrestling ring a second time
4. Why does Umuofia send an ultimatum to Mbaino instead of attacking at once?
   The dead woman's husband asked for payment instead · It fights only a war the Oracle has approved · Mbaino was far larger and better armed than Umuofia · Its warriors were away trading in distant markets
5. What do the clan's claims about its war medicine suggest about Umuofia's confidence in battle?
   It relies entirely on the number of its young men · It believes its wars are won by its best orators · Its power rests on an old charm as much as on arms · It expects neighbouring clans to yield out of fear

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