Things Fall Apart | Chapter 8 Questions and Answers

Study Questions
1. What does Okonkwo mean when he says a bowl of pounded yams can throw Nwoye in a wrestling match?

2. What does Okonkwo mean when he says, “Where are the young suckers that will grow when the old banana tree dies?” (p. 46)

3. Why would Okonkwo have been happier if Ezinma had been a boy?

4. Okonkwo springs to his feet to visit his friend Obierika. What does this image reveal about Okonkwo?

5. What is the meaning of the proverb “A child’s fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into its palm”....


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