Things Fall Apart Chapters 21-22 Quiz

Things Fall Apart Chapters 21-22 questions

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1. What distinguishes Mr Brown's approach to Umuofia?
   He learns the clan's beliefs by talking with its men · He refuses to baptise anyone who holds a title · He forbids converts to attend the clan's festivals · He preaches only in villages far from the court
2. Why does Mr Brown press families to send their children to his school?
   Otherwise the Commissioner will close the mission · Otherwise outsiders will fill the new posts of power · Otherwise the clan will lose its right to trade oil · Otherwise the children will be taken away to Umuru
3. How does Mr Smith differ from the man he replaces?
   He closes down the mission school and hospital · He refuses to use an interpreter when preaching · He sees the clan's religion as plain wickedness · He hands the church over to its Igbo converts
4. Why is Enoch's act during the earth goddess's ceremony so grave?
   It was done in front of the women of the clan · It interrupts a rite that may never be paused · It took place on ground sacred to the python god · Unmasking an egwugwu kills an ancestral spirit
5. Why do the masked spirits burn the church but leave Mr Smith unhurt?
   They want the building gone, not the man's blood · His interpreter persuades them to spare the mission · They fear the soldiers who emptied Abame's market · The Commissioner's messengers are standing guard

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