Things Fall Apart | Chapter 5 Questions and Answers

Study Questions
1. What is Ani’s relationship with the ancestors?

2. Why are new yams offered to Ani and the ancestors at the festival?

3. Describe the New Yam Festival.

4. Does Ekwefi, Okonkwo’s second wife, really kill the banana tree?

5. Nwoye’s mother often calls Ezinma “Ezigbo.” What does this name mean?

6. How does Okonkwo react when he hears the beating of the drums?

7. Why is Obiageli, Nwoye’s sister, crying?

8. Why does Ikemefuna look at the other children sternly when Obiageli tells the adults the story...


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