Things Fall Apart Quiz - Chapters 14 – 17
World Literature
Mrs. O’Donnell
1. Describe the last time Okonkwo visits his mother’s family.
2. Who is Uchendu and how does he guess why Okonkwo and his family have come to Mbanta?
3. Read the first three paragraphs on p. 131. What does the narrator say about Okonkwo’s chi? What has happened to
Okonkwo?
4. Why does Uchendu address his entire family at the end of the chapter? What does he say to them and what message is
he trying to convey to Okonkwo?
5. Who comes to visit Okonkwo in his second year of exile? Why do they go see Uchendu?
6. What news does Obierika bring of Abame?
7. Collect all the references to the white man.
8. At the end of the chapter Obierika gives Okonkwo money. Then the two men exchange what looks like lighthearted
remarks. What might be ominous about these remarks?
9. When does Obierika visit Okonkwo again? How many years have passed? What news does he bring of Umuofia?
10. Now look at the top of p. 144. What is the real reason Obierika has come to visit Okonkwo?
11. Describe the white man and his interpreter. What seems to the Ibo attitude toward the white man? What do they
find particularly hilarious about him?
12. Why does Nwoye decide to join the missionaries?
13. What do the missionaries ask the elders for at the beginning of this chapter? What are they given and why?
14. What surprises the elders and the village of Mbanta after they give the missionaries this privilege?
15. Why does Nneke join the new religion?
16. After Nwoye joins the missionaries, Okonkwo sits and thinks. Summarize his thoughts
17. What is Okonkwo’s popular name? How does it fit him?
18.How does he relate his popular name to Nwoye?