Test 1 (Things Fall Apart)

Question 1

Biafran War

Answer 1

1967-1970

Question 2

Igbo/Ibo/ Igbo lands

Answer 2

a member of people from southern nigeria

Question 3

Counter Narrative

Answer 3

Achebe didn’t like the way colonizers portrayed igbo people so he wanted to paint them in a new light

Question 4

okonkwo

Answer 4

protagonist

Question 5

obierika

Answer 5

okonkows friend visited him when he was banished

Question 6

1958

Answer 6

when things fall apart was published, at the time of publication was still colonized by the british

Question 7

achebe wants to…

Answer 7

1. delight his audience
   2.Edify them/ educate them and uplift them morally

Question 8

Proverbs

Answer 8

“a mother puts a scalding yam in her child’s hand”, Emphasizing that this is the natural course of the world and if violated it would be like putting a yam in a child’s hand an abomination
“mother is supreme”
“if a child washes his hands, he ways with kings” takes good care of himself and paid his dues so he’s able to eat with kings

Question 9

Mbaino

Answer 9

village where ikemefuna is from

Question 10

ikemefuna

Answer 10

15 year old who is traded along with a virgin to avoid war between villages due to the killing of an innocent woman from umofia

Question 11

igbo towns

Answer 11

southern/ southeastern nigeria

Question 12

iguedo

Answer 12

village within larger town

Question 13

mbanta

Answer 13

okonkwos mothers village

Question 14

abame

Answer 14

village massacred by white colonizers based on real historical event

Question 15

nwoye

Answer 15

okonkows eldest son who converts to christianity was very close to ikemefuna

Question 16

unoka

Answer 16

oknokwos father died of swelling of the stomach

Question 17

oracle

Answer 17

plays big role in tribal decision, decided ikemefuna must die but never gave reason as to why

Question 18

prejudices achebe combats about africa with his book

Answer 18

1. belief that everyone in africa is a savage
2. belief that africans are inarticulate and stupid

Question 19

hamartia

Answer 19

tragic flaw

Question 20

hubris

Answer 20

excessive pride

Question 21

5 skulls

Answer 21

okonkwos 5 kills of which he drinks palm wine out of

Question 22

Ekwefi

Answer 22

okonwos second wife Enzimas mother

Question 23

Ojiugo

Answer 23

okonkwos 3rd wife

Question 24

Ani

Answer 24

earth goddess

Question 25

atone

Answer 25

right a wrong

Question 26

enzima

Answer 26

okonkwos daughter

Question 27

district commissioner

Answer 27

head of white organization/commission

Question 28

agbala

Answer 28

woman, also used of a man who has taken no title

Question 29

efulefu

Answer 29

worthless man

Question 30

ogbanje

Answer 30

changeling, a child who repeatedly dies and returns to its mother to be reborn. It is almost impossible to bring up an ogbanje child without it dying, unless its iyi-wwa is first found and de- stroyed.

Question 31

osu

Answer 31

outcast: usually have long matted hair

Question 32

umuada

Answer 32

a family gathering of daughters, for which the female kins- folk return to their village of origin.

Question 33

uri

Answer 33

part of the betrothal ceremony when the dowry is paid.

Question 34

iba

Answer 34

fever

Question 35

nso-ani

Answer 35

a religious offence of a kind abhorred by everyone, literally earth's taboo.

Question 36

obi

Answer 36

living quarters of the head of the family

Question 37

lyi-uwa

Answer 37

a special kind of stone which forms the link between an ogbanje and the spirit world. Only if the iyi-uwa were discovered and destroyed would the child not die.