Things Fall Apart Chapters 7-8 Quiz

Things Fall Apart Chapters 7-8 questions

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1. What change in Nwoye during Ikemefuna's three years pleases Okonkwo?
   He asks to be allowed to join a war party · He takes to the talk and the work expected of men · He begins to plant a small yam plot of his own · He wins his first wrestling match in the village ilo
2. How does the village react to the arrival of the locusts?
   It leaves the farms and shelters indoors for days · It beats drums through the night to drive them off · It gathers them joyfully in pots to roast and store · It takes them as the Oracle's warning of famine
3. Why does Okonkwo strike Ikemefuna himself after being warned to keep out of it?
   The Oracle had named him as the one to do it · He wishes to spare the boy a slower death · Ezeudu had changed his mind on the journey · He dreads being thought weak by the other men
4. How does Obierika judge Okonkwo's part in the killing?
   The earth may punish a whole family for such an act · Okonkwo acted rightly but should not speak of it · Umuofia's elders should have been consulted first · The Oracle's word excuses any hand that obeys it
5. What does Okonkwo find hard to understand in the story of the old couple of Ire?
   That the wife died before her husband was buried · That a renowned warrior lived so bound to his wife · That their children refused to pay for the burial · That no funeral drums were sounded for either of them

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