Things Fall Apart Questions and Answers
Compare and contrast Okonkwo and his father in Things Fall Apart.
What is the moral lesson of Things Fall Apart?
What is the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution for Things Fall Apart?
In Things Fall Apart, why does Okonkwo commit suicide and what is the final message of this work?
What are the major lessons in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart?
What is the importance of the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves in Things Fall Apart?
Compare and contrast Mr. Smith and Mr. Brown.
How does Achebe foreshadow the ultimate fate of Ikemefuna?
What was Okonko's relationship with his wife Ekewfi and his daughter Ezinma in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe?
What is the conclusion of Things Fall Apart?
What does "those whose palm-kernels were cracked by a benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble" mean?
What is the significance of the following proverb in Things Fall Apart? Our elders say that the sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who under kneel under them.
Why does Okonkwo kill himself?
What do the flashbacks reveal about Okonkwo's and Unoka's relationship in Things Fall Apart?
What is the significance of the wrestling matches in Things Fall Apart? What is an event in American society similar to this tradition?
Why does Okonkwo kill Ikemefuna in Things Fall Apart?
What was Okonkwo's punishment for beating his wife?
Proverbs Are The Palm-oil With Which Words Are Eaten
In Things Fall Apart, what is the meaning of the proverb "A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness"?
What are the names of the nine villages in Things Fall Apart?
What are six of Okonkwo’s achievements in Things Fall Apart?
What is the conflict in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe?
The Pacification Of The Primitive Tribes Of The Lower Niger
What does "living fire begets cold impotent ash" mean?
In what ways does the idea of progress shape Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe? If Unoka, Okonkwo, and Nwoye are symbolic of three successive generations, how does society in Umuofia change over the course of their lifetimes? Where does Ikemefuna fit into this picture?
Why did Okonkwo hate his father?
How does Okonkwo's childhood impact his adult life in Things Fall Apart?
Why did Achebe choose to take the title of his novel from Yeats' poem?
Why is the simile “as slippery as a fish in water” successful in describing Okonkwo during the wrestling match in Things Fall Apart?
In Things Fall Apart, what influence did Ikemefuna have on Nwoye? From chapters 5-7.
How does Okonkwo feel after killing Ikemefuna?
Justify the title Things Fall Apart in relation to the text. How is it related to the protagonist and notions of community?
What causes the downfall of Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart?
In chapter 2 of Things Fall Apart, what effect does the night have on the people? All I know is that it has something to do with some ghost or something with children.
In Things Fall Apart, how does the song in chapter 12 relate to the concept of change? The song at the end of ch 12 is: If I hold her hand, she says Don't touch! If I hold her foot she says don't touch! But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know
In what ways does the idea of "progress" shape the novel Things Fall Apart?
In Things Fall Apart, there are two kinds of murder—male and female. What are these, and what do they mean to the novel? Does it matter that Okonkwo committed the "female" kind of murder?
How does Okonkwo's relationship with Ekwefi and Ezinma help develop his character in Things Fall Apart?
What influence did Ikemefuna's death have on Okonkwo and Nwoye's emotions in Things Fall Apart?
Who are the egwugwu in real life (reference from Things Fall Apart)?
Why is Okonkwo’s defeat of Amalinze the Cat such a great achievement in Things Fall Apart?
Why was Okonkwo exiled?
What is the purpose of storytelling in Things Fall Apart? Specifically, what are the purposes of the following stories: Vulture and Sky (ch. 7), Mosquito and Ear (ch. 9), The Snake-lizard and his Mother (ch. 9), Tortoise and the Birds (ch. 11)? Are the stories meant to simply showcase Nigerian culture, or do they have important metaphorical purposes?
Explain this quote from Things Fall Apart: "Amalinze was a wily craftsman, but Okonkwo was as slippery as a fish in water."
What is the denouement of the novel Things Fall Apart?
What does this quote from Things Fall Apart mean? "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others."
The following paragraph ends Part One of Things Fall Apart and summarizes a number of the doubts that have begun to plague individuals in the clan. What are two of the doubts the excerpt reflects and what is their significance in the changes that the clan undergoes, as a result making it easy to take the role of the colonized? Obierika was a man who thought about things. When the will of the goddess had been done, he sat down in his obi and mourned his friend’s calamity. Why should a man suffer so grievously for an offense he had committed inadvertently? But although he thought for a long time he found no answer. He was merely led into greater complexities. He remembered his wife's twin children, whom he had thrown away. What crime had they committed? The Earth had decreed that they were an offense on the land and must be destroyed. And if the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled the others. (Achebe 125)
In Things Fall Apart, how did the character and personality of Okonkwo change from the beginning of the story until the end of the story?
Why is Okonkwo's exile ironic in Things Fall Apart?
In Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, what does the proverb "When mother cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth" mean?
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