Things Fall Apart Chapters 9-10 Quiz

Things Fall Apart Chapters 9-10 questions

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1. What is dug up in order to loosen the spirit world's hold on Ezinma?
   A carved figure hidden under her mother's hut · A clay pot buried beside an orange tree · A smooth pebble she had wrapped and buried · A bundle of hair cut from her at her naming
2. What explains Ekwefi's particular fierceness about Ezinma?
   The priestess had promised the girl a long life · Ezinma had been born during the Week of Peace · Ezinma was the only child Okonkwo acknowledged · Nine earlier children of hers had died in infancy
3. What case is brought before the nine masked spirits?
   A man's wife has been taken away by her brothers · A man is accused of killing a sacred python · A family claims a neighbour has stolen its yams · Two villages dispute the boundary of a market
4. Okonkwo's wives notice something about the second masked spirit but say nothing. What have they seen?
   It limps in the way Ogbuefi Ezeudu did · Its springy walk is their own husband's · Its voice is the priest Ezeani's own voice · It wears cloth taken from Okonkwo's barn
5. What does the ruling in the marriage case show about Umuofia's justice?
   It always favours the husband who paid bride price · It leaves such quarrels for the families to settle · It aims to restore a household rather than punish · It weighs a wife's word as less than a man's word

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