Things Fall Apart Chapters 15-16 Quiz

Things Fall Apart Chapters 15-16 questions

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1. What had the people of Abame done before their market was destroyed?
   Seized a load of guns being carried through their land · Killed a white man who arrived on an iron horse · Driven a missionary and his converts out of the village · Refused to trade palm oil with the white men
2. What is Uchendu's point in the story of Mother Kite?
   Strangers should be fed before they are questioned · A mother's first duty is to feed her own young · Silence in a stranger is more dangerous than threats · A clan must answer a raid with a raid of its own
3. What news does Obierika bring on his second visit to Mbanta?
   Ezinma has been promised to a man of Umuofia · The missionaries have been driven out of Umuofia · Okonkwo's compound has been rebuilt by his friends · Nwoye has joined the Christians in Umuofia
4. What amuses the Mbanta crowd about the missionary's interpreter?
   His dialect turns his word for himself into a crude one · He cannot find Igbo words for the white man's god · He repeats every sentence twice before translating it · He addresses the elders as though they were children
5. What in the missionaries' first visit takes hold of Nwoye?
   The promise that converts would be given land · A hymn the missionaries sang at the end · The interpreter's offer to teach him to read · The white man's account of how the world was made

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