Things Fall Apart Chapters 23-24 Quiz

Things Fall Apart Chapters 23-24 questions

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1. How does the District Commissioner take the six leaders of Umuofia?
   He arrests them among the ruins of the burnt church · He invites them to talk, then has them handcuffed · He summons them to the market and surrounds it · He has them seized one by one in their compounds
2. What do the court messengers do with the fine the clan collects?
   They pass all of it to the District Commissioner · They return it once the prisoners are released · They keep part of it and hand over the rest · They demand cowries again after the men go free
3. What has the imprisonment done to Okonkwo by the time he comes home?
   Convinced him that Umuofia must come to terms · Broken his will to take part in the clan's affairs · Persuaded him to seek Obierika's counsel first · Left him set on vengeance whatever the clan decides
4. Who speaks for war at the great meeting in the market place?
   Okika, one of the men who had been jailed · Uchendu, who had travelled from Mbanta · Obierika, speaking in place of the elders · Okonkwo, who had sharpened his machete
5. What does Okonkwo understand from the crowd's behaviour after he kills the head messenger?
   The clan will now be forced to pay a second fine · Umuofia will not fight, since the others got away · The messengers' deaths will bring soldiers at once · The elders mean to hand him to the Commissioner

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