Things Fall Apart | Chapter 19 Questions and Answers

Study Questions
1. Why does Okonkwo regret his exile so bitterly even though he prospers in his motherland?

2. What is the significance of the names Okonkwo gives the children who were born during his seven years in exile?

3. Why doesn’t Obierika build Okonkwo’s obi or the walls of his compound in Umuofia?

4. Why can’t Okonkwo return to Umuofia before the rains stop?

5. Why does Obiageli call Ezinma “Salt” while they harvest the cassava?

6. Why do the women put the cassava in shallow wells?

7. Why does Uchendu throw one of...


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