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This document contains a test on the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. The test includes 51 multiple choice and true/false questions that assess knowledge of characters, plot points, themes and quotations from the novel. It asks about characters like Okonkwo, Nwoye, Ikemefuna and Mr. Brown. It also addresses key events like Ikemefuna's death, the arrival of Christian missionaries in Umuofia, and Okonkwo's exile and return to the village. The test examines how traditional Igbo society changes with the introduction of British colonialism and Christian religion.

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Things Fall Apart Testreview

This document contains a test on the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. The test includes 51 multiple choice and true/false questions that assess knowledge of characters, plot points, themes and quotations from the novel. It asks about characters like Okonkwo, Nwoye, Ikemefuna and Mr. Brown. It also addresses key events like Ikemefuna's death, the arrival of Christian missionaries in Umuofia, and Okonkwo's exile and return to the village. The test examines how traditional Igbo society changes with the introduction of British colonialism and Christian religion.

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Things Fall Apart Test

Mrs. Alana Haughaboo


I. Matching/Identification
1. Unoka
2. Umuofia
3. Ezinma
4. Nwoye
5. Obierika
6. Chukwu
7. Chielo
8. Mbanta
9. Mr. Brown
10. Ikemefuna
11. Why was Okonkwo famous?
12. Which of the following statements does not describe Unoka?
A. He was the best drummer in the clan.
B. He was Okonkwos father.
C. He was lazy and improvident.
D. He constantly borrowed money that he did not repay.
13. True or False: The men in Okonkwos village had murdered a woman from a neighboring
village, and her kinsmen wanted revenge.
14. True or false: Okonkwos greatest fear was that he would resemble his father.
15. What upset Okonkwo most about his son, Nwoye?
16. What did Okonkwo bring home from his trip to Mbaino?
17. How did Okonkwo begin his prosperous career?
18. What unheard of thing did Okonkwo do during the Week of Peace?
19. What did Okonkwo do whenever he thought of his fathers weakness and failure?
20. What did Okonkwo tell himself about his part in Ikemefunas death?
21. True or False: Obierika said Okonkwos action was the kind of action that would not please the
Earth; that the goddess would wipe out an entire family for such an action.

22. What did Ibe and his relatives use to determine a bride price for Obierikas daughter?
23. True or False: Ekwefi had borne ten children, but nine of them had died in infancy. She began
giving them names like Death, I implore you, and May it not happen again.
24. True or False: An ogbanje was a wicked child who, when it died, re-entered its mothers womb
to be born again.
25. Who were the central figures in the uri ceremony?
A. It was the bride and her mother.
B. It was the groom and his mother.
C. It was the bride and groom.
D. It was the fathers of the bride and groom.
26. Which did not happen during Ezeudus funeral?
A. There was a lot of shouting.
B. There was a lot of drum beating.
C. The men and boys had wrestling matches.
D. The men fired their guns.
27. True or False: The author describes a mans life as a continual struggle to get away from his
ancestors.
28. What was the result of Okonkwos action?
29. Why did the men from Ezeudus quarter demolish Okonkwos houses and barn, and kill his
animals?
30. One person wondered why a man should suffer because of an inadvertent mistake. He/she also
wondered why twins had to be thrown away. This person concluded that the clan had to punish
offenses so that the Earth would not loose her wrath on all the land. Who was it?
31. Where did Okonkwo take his family to live?
32. True or False: Okonkwo thought his personal god or chi was not meant for great things.
He was feeling despair.
33. Why was the village of Abame destroyed?
34. True or False: On his next visit two years later, Obierika said the missionaries had come to
Umuofia.
35. Who had Obierika found among the missionaries?
36. True or False: The villagers gave the missionaries a piece of the best land in the village because
it was their custom to be polite to newcomers.

37. True or False: Okonkwo was concerned that Nwoye and his other male children would abandon
their ancestors. He pictured himself and his fathers waiting in vain for worship and sacrifice.
38. What sacred animal was allegedly killed by one of the newly converted Christians?
39. How did Okonkwo feel about his return to the clan?
40. Which of the following was not one of the messages Okonkwo gave to his sons and daughters
after Nwoye left the family?
41. Which of the following was not one of the changes that had come to Umuofia in the seven years
that Okonkwo was inexile?
42. True or False: Many of the other villagers liked the trading store and the resultant money that
was coming into Umuofia. They were also starting to think that the religion had some substance.
43. How did Mr. Brown act to gain converts?
44. What event happened in the marketplace?
45. What happened to Okonkwo?

III. Quotations: Identify the speaker:


A. Okonkwo B. Missionary
C. Chielo

D. Obierika

E. Ezeudu

AB. Uchendu

46. Its true that a child belongs to its father, but when a father beats his child, it seeks sympathy
in its mothers hut. A man belongs to his fatherland when things are good and life is sweet. But
when there is sorrow and bitterness he finds refuge in his motherland. Your mother is there to
protect you. She is buried there. And that is why we say that mother is supreme.
47. Those were good days when a man had friends in distant clans. Your generation does not know
that. You stay at home, afraid of your next-door neighbor. Even a mans motherland is strange to
him nowadays.
48. We have been sent by this great God to ask you to leave your wicked ways and false gods and
turn to him so that you may be saved when you die, he said.
49. How do you think we can fight when our own brothers have turned against us? The white man
is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his
foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer
act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
50. That man was one of the greatest men in Umuofia. You drove him to kill himself; and now he
will be buried like a dog.
51. We have now built a church and we want you all to come in every seventh day to worship the true
God.

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