Things Fall Apart Chapters 19-20 Quiz

Things Fall Apart Chapters 19-20 questions

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1. What does Okonkwo do to mark the end of his exile?
   He takes a third title among his mother's people · He hands Uchendu his whole barn of seed yams · He sends his sons ahead to rebuild his old compound · He feasts his mother's kinsmen on an unusual scale
2. What does the oldest guest at the farewell feast say he fears?
   That the young no longer value the bond of kinship · That the clan's farms will fail without more rain · That the white man's soldiers will reach Mbanta next · That the elders have grown too weak to judge cases
3. What has changed in Umuofia by the time Okonkwo returns?
   The clan has abandoned the Feast of the New Yam · A court, a prison and the white man's messengers · The nine villages have been merged into three · The egwugwu no longer come out to hear cases
4. In Obierika's account of the land dispute, why was a man of the clan hanged?
   He gave false evidence before the District Commissioner · He attacked a court messenger who seized his yams · He killed his rival and the white man's court judged him · He refused to pay a fine the Commissioner imposed
5. What does Obierika blame for the clan's loss of cohesion?
   Okonkwo's long absence from the clan's councils · The elders' failure to consult the Oracle on war · The collapse of trade with the neighbouring clans · Umuofia's own sons now serve the stranger's order

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