Use the following PPT Presentation as a study aid for Things Fall Apart.

1. Characters Literary True or Novel Symbols Potpourri
Terms FALSE Info
100 100 100 100 100 100
200 200 200 200 200 200
300 300 300 300 300 300
400 400 400 400 400 400
500 500 500 500 500 500

2. Which Character was a skilled flute
player but was always borrowing and
losing money?

3. Who is the eldest son of Okonkwo ?

4. Who is the boy who is sent to replace
Ogbuefi’s wife with a virgin from
Mbaino ?

5. Which Character wrote a book titled
The Pacification of the Primitive
Tribes of the Lower Niger ?

6. Who committed the disrespectful act
of unmasking an egwuguw?

7. The villagers give Ikemefuna to
Okonkwo until they need him. What
does this fortell ?

8. Okonkwo’s downfall is his pride and
his fear of being like his father ,
what literary element does this
portray ?

9. What is the author’s description of
Ikemefuna as an “ill fated boy" an
example of ?

10. The lower Nigerian villages and
Mbanta are the -------- of the book ?

11. True or False
Did Okonkwo go to his Motherland to
visit his mother ?

12. True or False
Okonkwo killed Ikemefuna so that he
wouldn’t look weak.

13. True or False
One of Okonkwo’s cousins notices
Nwoye among the Christians and
tells Okonkwo.

14. True or False
Okonkwo’s third wife took care of
Ikemefuna .

15. True or False
Ezinma and Obiageli will get married
in Umuofia once they return from
Okonkwo’s exile.

16. When was the book written ?

17. Where was Chinua Achebe Born?

18. What is the culture of the people in
the book ?

19. What type of literary work is this
book ?

20. Okonkwo’s murder is the ------of the
book ?

21. Okonkwo’s anger is similar to
-----that destroys everything
a. Fire
b. Water
c. Tornado

22. What does the appearance of the locusts
foreshadow?
 A. The coming of the white people
 B. The end of the year
 C. The bad harvest

23. In the book what is the symbol that
people use to greet each other when
they meet ?

24. In the book what does the kumkabanga
rock symbolize
b. A spirit mountain
c. A Tree spirit
d. The spirit of a child

25. The palm wine is a symbol in
marriage that represents ……
A. love
B. Dowry
C. home
D. Worthiness

26. In the book ,what are the three
symbols of a wealthy and prosperous
man ?
A. wine, huts, trees
b. yams, corn , trees
c. yams, wives, titles

27. Which character
did Okonkwo wish to
be a boy ?
A. Nwoye
B. Salina
C. Ezinma

28. To what religion does Nwoye
convert?
 A. Buddhism
 B. Christianity
 C. Muslim

29. Which wife does Okonkwo beat
because she did not cook for her kids
but instead got her hair braided ?
 A. His first wife
 B. His second
wife
 C. His third wife

30. Who does Okonkwo have a fear of
becoming?
 A. His mother
 B. Unoka, His Father
 C. Darrin , his older brother

31. In the end, how is Okonkwo’s death
ironic ?
A. He dies from the same disease as his
father.
B. He’s considered an abomination like his
father.
C. His people hang him from a tree.