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Chinua Achebe Quiz

How much do you know about the author of Things Fall Apart? Take the Chinua Achebe quiz from eNotes to find out. Contains ten questions about the Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic.

  1. What was Chinua Achebe's given first name?

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  2. How did Achebe become partially disabled?

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  3. Achebe's final position as a professor was at which prestigious college?

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  4. Where was Chinua Achebe born?

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  5. What did Achebe often defend despite receiving much critiscim?

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  6. True or False: Things Fall Apart is the most widely read of all African novels

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  7. True or False: Achebe never lived in the United States; he hated the U.S.

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  8. Things Fall Apart was Achebe's __________ novel.

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  9. Achebe became an ambassador of which African nation?

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  10. Which famous author did Achebe once call "a bloody racist"?

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To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

The Crucible

by Arthur Miller

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare