Things Fall Apart - English 122 Homework for Monday

Posted: April 27, 2012

Complete the following: Chapters 7 – 13   1.        What influence did Ikemefuna have on Nwoye?  What did they hear from Okonkwo? 2.       How did the boys help their father during the days after the harvest? 3.       Why were the people happy to see the locusts come?  How did they use them? 4.       What message did Ogbuefi Exeudu bring?  How did Okonkwo explain the trip to Ikemefuna? 5.       Describe the appearance of the people as they went to the execution.  What did they carry? 6.       What typical child’s game did Ikemefuna play with himself when he feared that his mother was dead?  What was ironic about his fears? 7.       Why did Okonkwo strike the last blow?  Where did such a fear probably arise? 8.       What did Nwoye’s reaction show about him?  How was he different from his father and the other villagers? 9.       What did Okonkwo’s illness tell about him?  What was Obierika’s reaction? 10.   What was the tradition in burying a husband and wife who die at about the same time? 11.   Why couldn’t Obierika and Okonkwo tap their own palm trees? 12.   How did the two families settle the bride-price?  How much was it? 13.   What did the men reveal about the village traditions as they talked about the way a bride-price was determined? 14.   What bit of foreshadowing appears at the end of chapter 8? 15.   From what did the people make fever medicine? 16.   What caused Ekwefi and Ezinma to be especially close?  What is an ogbanje? 17.   How was a dead child treated?  Why? 18.   What did Ezinma do that showed she enjoyed looking for her pebble? 19.   Why wouldn’t Ekwefi believe that Ezinma’s illness was the iba, or fever? 20.   How did Okonkwo break Ezinma’s fever? 21.   Describe the ceremony performed by the ‘ancestral spirits’ of the village.  How many were there?  Why that number? How did they address the people involved?  What did those people do in return? 22.   What was the verdict in abuse trial?  What part did each family have?