Things Fall Apart Plot recall Quiz
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe · 15 multiple-choice questions with answers · about 12 min
Test your knowledge of Things Fall Apart with 15 plot recall questions with answers and explanations — quick check of what happens and when. Ideal for revision once you have read the whole novel.
Quick check of what happens and when. Drawn from the whole novel — contains spoilers.
Skills tested: Recall · Difficulty: Easy, Standard
The answers and an explanation for each question appear as you play, and on the answer-key page of the printout.
- How does Okonkwo first win fame throughout the nine villages?
By clearing the largest farm in one planting season · By taking the clan's highest title while still young · By throwing a wrestler unbeaten for seven years · By leading Umuofia's warriors in a raid on Mbaino
- When a neighbour calls at Unoka's hut to ask for his money back, how does Unoka answer?
He offers his flute as payment and asks for time · He denies the loan and orders the man out of the hut · He promises to repay once his own yams are harvested · He shows the debt marks on his wall and puts it off
- What becomes of Unoka's body when he dies?
He is carried into the Evil Forest and left there · He is given a funeral with drums and gunfire · He is buried among his wife's kinsmen in Mbanta · He is buried at once inside his own compound
- During the New Yam Festival Okonkwo accuses a wife of killing a banana tree. What follows?
He beats her, then goes out with his gun · He refuses to eat the food she has prepared · He sends her back to her father's compound · He makes her replant the tree the same day
- 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
- 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
- In the story Ekwefi tells, how does Tortoise come by his broken shell?
Parrot carries him off and drops him in a river · The birds strip away the feathers they lent him · The sky people refuse him food and send him home · He falls onto hard things set out for his landing
- What marks the betrothal celebration for Obierika's daughter?
The suitor must wrestle the bride's eldest brother · The egwugwu attend to see the bride price paid · A cow is killed, and a loose one must be fined for · The bride spends the night in the priestess's hut
- Why is Okonkwo banished for seven years rather than for good?
Ezeudu's family agreed to accept a payment instead · The killing was judged accidental, not deliberate · He had taken two titles and so earned leniency · The Oracle fixed the term when it was consulted
- What had the people of Abame done before their market was destroyed?
Seized a load of guns being carried through their land · Killed a white man who arrived on an iron horse · Driven a missionary and his converts out of the village · Refused to trade palm oil with the white men
- What land do the elders of Mbanta grant the missionaries?
An abandoned compound of a man who was exiled · Ground beside the stream the women use for water · A plot in the Evil Forest, expecting them to die · A strip of farmland at the edge of the market
- 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
- 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
- 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
- What does the Commissioner find when Obierika leads him behind the compound?
Okonkwo's barn and huts newly burnt · Okonkwo waiting with his machete drawn · Okonkwo's body hanging from a tree · Okonkwo's wives weeping at a fresh grave
Original questions written for Pagine. This book is in copyright, so questions paraphrase rather than quote it.
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