Things Fall Apart

Chapter 2

1. What is used to inform all the men of the Umuofia to meet in the market place the
following morning? pg 14,para 1, line 1:"He heard the ogene of the town crier piercing the still night air"

2. What do the people of Umuofia fear in the night?

pg 14,para 2, line 4:"Children were warned not to whistle at night for the evil spirits"
3. Okonkwo does not fear war. In the last war he fought, he brought home a souvenir
which he drank palm-wine out of. What is this souvenir?
pg 15, para 1, line 5:"On great occasions...first human head"
4. Who is the powerful orator that informs the ten thousand men of the emergency
facing the nine villages of Umuofia? pg 15, para 2, line 6:"Ogbeufi Euzego...on such occasions"

5. What is the emergency that the great orator announces at the meeting in the
marketplace? pg 15, para 3, line 3:"He threw his..sweep the crowd"

6. What ultimatum is dispatched to Mbaino as a consequence of the murder of the

woman from Umuofia? pg 15, para 4, line 2:"An ultimatum...virgin as compensation"

7. Why is Umuofia feared by all its neighbors?

pg 16, para 1, line 2:"It was powerful in war and magic, and its priests and medicine men were feared in"
8. Okonkwo of Umuofia is the emissary of war to Mbaino. What does Mbaino give
him as an offering for the murder of the woman from Umuofia?
pg 17, para 1, line 3:"The lads name...unto this day"
9. What are the things that Okonkwo fears most?
pg 17,para 3, line 8:"It was the fear...to resemble his father"
10. What is the one passion that rules Okonkwo's life?
pg 17, para 3, line 12:"To hate everything that his father Unoka had loved"
11. Why is Okonkwo's twelve-year-old son, Nwoye, causing him great anxiety?
pg 18, para 1, line 12:"Was causing..incipient laziness"
12. Okonkwo is very prosperous, owning a large compound with many huts, and an
abundance of food. Ikemefuna is given to Okonkwo to live with him until the clan
decides Ikemefuna's fate. How does Ikemefuna react to living with Okonkwo?
pg 19 para 1 line 1:"As for the boy himself he was terribly afraid.'
TFA: Chapter 3

1. Under what circumstances will the people of Umuofia consult Agbala, the

Oracle of the Hills and the Caves?pg 20, para 2, line 2:"They came...with their neighbors"

2. Where does the powerful Oracle of the Hills, Agbala, live?

pg 20, para 3, line 1:"The way came into the shrine...opening into a henhouse"
3. When Okonkwo was a boy, his father, Unoka, consults Agbala, the Oracle of

the Hills, about why his crops always fail. What reply did the Oracle give?
pg 21, para 7, line3:"You,Unoka, are known henhouse"
4. What is the shameful death Unoka endures?
pg 21, para 4, line 2:"He died of swelling...to the earth goddess"
5. Who is the first man Okonkwo works for as a share-cropper?
pg 21,para 4, line 2:"His name was Nwakibie...in the clan"
6. What does Okonkwo bring with him to share with the wealthy Nwakibie and
pg 22,para 3,line 1:"He took a pot of palm-wine and a cock to Nwakibie"
his family before asking for yam seeds and share cropping privileges?

7. Anasi is Nwakibies first wife, which makes her the ruler over the other

wives of Nwakibie. She is the only wife who can wear her husband’s titles.

Where are the titles worn on Anasi? pg 23,para 4, line 2:"She wore the anklet...wife alone could wear"

8. Why does Nwakibie trust Okonkwo to farm his yam seeds?

pg 25, para 1, line 8:"As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look"
9. What is the only way a young man can build a barn of his own if his father

has no yams? pg 25, para 3, line 1:"Share-cropping was..barn of one's own"

10. How is the weather during the first growing season that Okonkwo starts

share-cropping for Nwakibie? pg 26,para 1,line 4:"The first rains...a brief moment

11. What are the crops that are considered womens crops by the people of

Umuofia? pg 25,para 1,line 4:"His mother and sisters..like coco-yams,beans and cassava"

12. How does Okonkwo react to the disastrous growing season that destroys all

his yams and the yams of his people? pg 27,para 5, line 2:"Since I survived...I shall survive anything"