Things Fall Apart | Chapter 16 Questions and Answers

Study Questions
1. How do the leaders of Umuofia feel about the new religion?

2. What does Chielo, the priestess of Agbala, mean when she calls the converts “the excrement of the clan”? (p. 101)

3. Why doesn’t Okonkwo want to speak to Obierika about Nwoye?

4. Why do the Igbo people laugh at the interpreter even though he is speaking Igbo?

5. What is an iron horse?

6. Why are the people excited by what the missionary says?

7. Why do the men of Umuofia laugh at the missionary?

8. Why does Okonkwo stay and listen to the...


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