things fall apart chapter 1/7

• How does eighteen-year-old, Okonkwo, bring honor to his village?

  Throwing Amalinze the Cat
• When Okonkwo is angry and cannot speak because of his stutter, how does he get his point across?


  He used his fist.
• Who is Okonkwo's father?

  unoka
• Why doesn't Okonkwo have any patience with his father?

  In Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo resents his father for being a poor, unmanly, unsuccessful debtor.
• . Why does Unoka's neighbor, Okoye, visit him?

  to collect Unoka's debt of 200 cowries.
• Why does Unoka change the subject to music when he and Oybe are discussing the impending war with the village of Mbaino?

  Unoka was never happy when it came to wars. He was in fact a coward and could not bear the sight of blood.
• Why does Okoye need to collect a past debt from Unoka?

  for the ceremony in which he would purchase the third highest title of honor
• The Ibo people consider conversation to be very important. What form of conversation do they regard the most highly?


  proverbs
• How does Unoka react when Okoye asks him to repay the two hundred cowries owed to him?

  Burst into laughter
• . Why is Okonkwo considered one of the greatest men of his time?

  accomplished warrior
• Why does Unoka change the subject to music when he and Oybe are discussing the impending war with the village of Mbaino?

  When missteps come their way, dispute with neighbors, or to consult the spirits of their departed fathers
• When is the only time that Unoka is not haggard and mournful?


  when he was drinking and playing his flute.
• What is used to inform all the men of the Umuofia to meet in the market place the following morning?


  In Umuofia, a town crier is used to spread news and gather clan members for meetings1
• What is used to inform all the men of the Umuofia to meet in the market place the following morning?

  When you hear the ogene of the town crier.
• What do the people of Umuofia fear in the night?


  darkness, be/c of evil spirits, animals, snakes
• Okonkwo does not fear war. In the last war he fought, he brought home a souvenir which he drank palm-wine out of. What is this souvenir?


  Human skull
• Who is the powerful orator that informs the ten thousand men of the emergency facing teh nine villages of Umuofia?

  Ogbuefi Ezeugo
• What is the emergency that the great orator announces at the meeting in the marketplace?

  a daughter of Umuofia was killed.
• What ultimatum is dispatched to Mbaino as a consequence of the murder of the woman from Umuofia?

  either fight with the tribe in war, or offer a young man and a virgin to replace the murdered.
• Why is Umuofia feared by all it neighbors?


  Powerful in war and magic
• Okonkwo of Umuofia is the Emissary of war to Mbaino. What does Mbaino give him as an offering for the murder of the woman from Umuofia?

  a 15 year old lad named Ikemefuna.
• What are the things that Okonkwo fears most?

  failure and weakness
• What is the one passion that rules Okonkwo's life?

  to hate everything his father loved.
• Why is Okonkwo's 12 year old son, Nwoye, causing him great anxiety?


  his laziness, it reminds him of his father.
• Okonkwo is very prosperous, owning a large compound with many huts, and an abundance of food. Ikemefuna is given to Okonkwo to live with him until the clan decides Ikemefuna's fate. How does Ikemefuna react to living with Okonkwo?


  very afraid, and didn't know what had happened, but he knew his dad had taken a hand in a murder.
• Under what circumstances will the people of Umuofia consult Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves?

  When missteps come their way, dispute with neighbors, or to consult the spirits of their departed fathers.
• Where does the powerful Oracle of the HIlls, Agbala live?


  In a cave
• When Okonkwo was a boy, his father Unoka, consults Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills, about why his crops always fail. What reply did the Oracle give?

  He was a weak farmer, doesn't work hard enough, work like a man.
• What is the shameful death Unoka endures?

  He became swollen, that was disrespectul for the earth goddess, so he was taken to the Evil Forest and left to die.
• Who is the first man Okonkwo works for as a share-cropper?


  Nwakibie
• What does Okonkwo bring with hime to share with the wealthy Nwakibie and his family before asking for yam seeds and share cropping privileges?


  a pot of palm wine, kola nut, and a cock.
• Anasi is Nwakibie's first wife, which makes her the ruler over the other wives of Nwakibie. She is the only wife who can wear her husband's title. Where are the titles worn on Anasi?


  on an anklet.
• Why does Nwakibie trust Okonkwo to farm his yam seeds?

  "You can tell a ripe corn by its look."
• What is the only way a young man can build a barn of his own if his father has no yams?

  Share-cropping
• How is the weather during the first growing season that Okonkwo starts share-cropping for Nwakibie?

  horribly rainy, then horrible dry. Just horrible
• What are the crops that are considered women's crops by the people of Umuofia?


  coco-yams, beans and cassava
• How does Okonkwo react to the disastrous growing season that destroys all his yams and the yams of his people?

  he said since he survived that season, his shall survive anything.
• Why does Okonkwo insult Osugo at a meeting by calling him a woman?

  "this meeting is for men only". He was dealing with less successful men, and they were contradicting him.
• How long is Ikemenfuna in Okonkwo's care?

  3 Years
• How does Nwoye's mother treat Ikemenfuna?


  very kind, treated him as one of her own