This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > African Literature > Things Fall Apart > Things Fall Apart – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Things Fall Apart Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. All are true about Igbo EXCEPT ..... A) There culture is 10, 000 years old. B) It is the smallest ethnic group. C) They have complex laws and many customs. D) They have a rich oral story telling tradition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is the smallest ethnic group. 2. How does Okonkwo feel about his father, Unoka? A) He is ashamed of him. B) He resents him for being weak. C) He deeply admires him. D) He is indifferent towards him. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He resents him for being weak. 3. Which word means "to severely and violently damage something" ? A) Inquire. B) Specious. C) Tenacity. D) Mutilate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mutilate. 4. The company experienced a ..... year, exceeding all financial goals. A) Malevolent. B) Prosperity. C) Prosperous. D) Uncanny. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prosperous. 5. What word means done on purpose or intentional? A) Deliberate. B) Perturb. C) Smallpox. D) Miscreant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deliberate. 6. Which catastrophic event happened in the author's life? A) He was kidnapped and held hostage. B) He contracted Ebola. C) He was paralyzed in a car crash. D) He contracted polio and was in a wheelchair. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He was paralyzed in a car crash. 7. Completely lacking in something A) Devoid. B) Esoteric. C) Listless. D) Vigor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Devoid. 8. What is the definition of 'interpret'? A) To explain or understand the meaning of. B) Very thirsty and in need of water. C) A person who spreads the Christian message. D) To captivate or hold someone's attention. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To explain or understand the meaning of. 9. Why did this person want to see Ezinma? A) The goddess Agbala wanted Ezinma to be brought to her cave. B) Ezinma's spirit pebble was causing problems in the village. C) They wanted to kidnap her and sell her into slavery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The goddess Agbala wanted Ezinma to be brought to her cave. 10. What word means to go with someone or something? A) Persistent. B) Atone. C) Accompany. D) Arduous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Accompany. 11. The rain fell continuously throughout the day. What does the word 'continuous' mean? A) A situation where there is no order or authority. B) To make someone feel upset or frustrated. C) Happening without interruption or stopping. D) Exceptional skill or talent in something. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Happening without interruption or stopping. 12. They plan to initiate the project next week. What does the word 'initiate' mean? A) Having a lot of something readily available. B) Able to float or float easily. C) Something that seems true or real. D) To start or begin something. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To start or begin something. 13. Pulled tight or drawn back; not slack A) Interim. B) Poignant. C) Benevolent. D) Taut. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Taut. 14. What is the meaning of amiss? A) The state of not working or being used. B) (of amounts or numbers) very small or not enough. C) Incorrect, not suitable, or not as it should be. D) Looking ill or tired, often with dark skin under the eyes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Incorrect, not suitable, or not as it should be. 15. Igbo men can have more than one wife. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 16. How did Okonkwo gain his fame at 18? A) Having a successful farm. B) Beating an undefeated wrestler. C) Marrying 8 wives. D) Having children. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beating an undefeated wrestler. 17. Who is Okonkwo's best friend? A) Grandchild. B) Obierika. C) Bug. D) Meditation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Obierika. 18. Peter Pan lives in a ..... state of boyhood because as long as he stays in Neverland, he'll never grow up. A) Feign. B) Perpetual. C) Capricious. D) Amiss. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Perpetual. 19. Obierika pays another visit to Okonkwo after ..... years A) Two. B) Three. C) Four. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Two. 20. What is the significance of the egwugwu ceremony in Chapter 4? A) It is a ceremony to honor the village elders. B) It represents the traditional justice system and the authority of the ancestors in the Igbo society. C) It is a ritual to bring rain to the crops. D) It is a celebration of the harvest season. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It represents the traditional justice system and the authority of the ancestors in the Igbo society. 21. When Obiageli broke the pot, how did Okonkwo react? A) He beat her. B) He beat her mother. C) He was calm and understanding. D) He was angry and threw another pot at her. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He was calm and understanding. 22. What word means a special religious ritual or ceremony? A) Flourish. B) Sacrament. C) Resilient. D) Buoyant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sacrament. 23. Nwoye returned to Okonkwo when he returned A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 24. Lacking real amusement and typically expressing irony A) Sardonic. B) Mirthless. C) Sarcastic. D) Mocking. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mirthless. 25. The town's residents ..... their historic landmarks. A) Impending. B) Revere. C) Pandemonium. D) Subside. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Revere. 26. The final paragraph of the novel (page 179) mainly shows that: A) The villagers think highly of the Commissioner because he delegates undignified work to his soldiers. B) The Commissoner only took this job because it provided material for his book. C) The story of Okonkwo will live on in the book the Commissioner is planning to write. D) The Commissioner does not relate to the people of Umuofia, and he thinks of himself as more civilized. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Commissioner does not relate to the people of Umuofia, and he thinks of himself as more civilized. 27. The title of the novel is taken from A) The Second Coming. W.B. Yeats. B) 1984 George Orwell. C) The white TigerbyAravind. Adiga. D) Fire on the MountainAnita Desai. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Second Coming. W.B. Yeats. 28. What word means to badly damage or hurt something? A) Manifest. B) Mutilate. C) Devoid. D) Agony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mutilate. 29. The doctor will prescribe medication to treat your symptoms. What does the word 'prescribe' mean? A) To say bad things about God. B) To feel confused or puzzled. C) A disagreement or fight between people. D) To tell someone what medicine to take. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To tell someone what medicine to take. 30. She couldn't help but ..... the loss of her favorite book. A) Lament. B) Grievous. C) Tradition. D) Dwell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lament. 31. Which is the correct definition of "agile?" A) Important, easily seen, or sticks out. B) Able to move quickly and easily. C) Tired and not interested in things; hopeless. D) To be completely lacking in something. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Able to move quickly and easily. 32. Her voice was ..... as she confessed her deepest fears. A) Tradition. B) Lament. C) Wrath. D) Tremulous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tremulous. 33. What does the word "Amiss" mean? A) Lacking energy or enthusiasm. B) To abandon someone or something. C) Filled with great sadness. D) Wrong, out of place or order. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wrong, out of place or order. 34. The company offered to compensate the customer for their inconvenience. What does the word 'compensate' mean? A) To prevent or stop something from happening. B) Never ending, always happening or existing. C) To make up for something lost or lacking. D) Having or showing a desire to cause harm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To make up for something lost or lacking. 35. When you become tongue-tied, you might do this A) Discern. B) Dominate. C) Stammer. D) Resent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stammer. 36. What was the purpose of the feast? A) To celebrate the birth of his children. B) To offer gratitude to his kinsmen. C) To bid farewell. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To offer gratitude to his kinsmen. 37. To make reparation for a sin or mistake A) Tentative. B) Provoked. C) Arduous. D) Atone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Atone. 38. The ..... delivered the important message to the king. A) Emissary. B) Discern. C) Incipient. D) Perpetual. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emissary. 39. What is happening at the village ilo (playground) during the Feast of the New Yam? A) Shooting range. B) Wrestling contest. C) Debate. D) Cooking contest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wrestling contest. 40. When I got home, even though nothing looked different, I had a disquieting feeling that something was ..... A) Perpetual. B) Frenzy. C) Amiss. D) Impenetrable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amiss. 41. Who is the author of Things Fall Apart? A) Ernest Gaines. B) Chinua achebe. C) Chimamanda Adichie. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chinua achebe. 42. How does Okonkwo react to the news of his son joining the Christian missionaries in Chapter 17? A) Okonkwo reacts with anger and disappointment. B) Okonkwo reacts with sadness and understanding. C) Okonkwo reacts with indifference and acceptance. D) Okonkwo reacts with joy and excitement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Okonkwo reacts with anger and disappointment. 43. What was one of the things that the medicine man did to help? Select any that are true. A) Mutilated/cut up the child to leave a mark. B) Dug up a stone that links the ogbanje to the spirit world. C) Took it under his own care. D) Gave advice to Okonkwo and Ekwefi. E) Took Ekwefi to a different village. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dug up a stone that links the ogbanje to the spirit world. 44. How many children were born to Okonkwo while in exile? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 45. What word means pretended or faked, not real? A) Distill. B) Talon. C) Copious. D) Feigned. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Feigned. 46. What are some key aspects of Igbo culture and traditions as depicted in 'Things Fall Apart'? A) Fishing techniques, modern technology, individualism. B) European fashion, urban lifestyle, nuclear family structure. C) Buddhist meditation, Hindu rituals, Confucian values. D) Ancestral worship, clan customs, proverbs, storytelling, male dominance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ancestral worship, clan customs, proverbs, storytelling, male dominance. 47. What word means a person or animal that lives somewhere? A) Impudent. B) Inhabitant. C) Intone. D) Allegiance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inhabitant. 48. Chinua Achebe was born in ..... A) 1922. B) 1984. C) 1955. D) 1930. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1930. 49. What did the villagers do when the locusts came? A) They blockaded themselves in their huts until the locusts had gone. B) They set fire to the fields to drive the locusts away. C) They ran away to a neighboring village. D) They caught as many as possible, roasted them, and ate them as a delicacy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They caught as many as possible, roasted them, and ate them as a delicacy. 50. Her speech left a ..... impact on all who listened. A) Omen. B) Profound. C) Accord. D) Recoil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Profound. 51. The teacher gave a stern rebuke to the student for his disruptive behavior in class. What does the word 'rebuke' mean? A) Not very crowded or filled with things. B) To stop or come to an end. C) Pretended or faked, not real. D) To scold or criticize someone harshly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To scold or criticize someone harshly. 52. How does the conflict escalate in Chapter 22? A) The conflict is completely ignored and never addressed again. B) The conflict leads to a dance-off between the characters. C) Main characters' motivations clash, leading to confrontations and misunderstandings. D) The conflict is resolved peacefully with no further issues. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Main characters' motivations clash, leading to confrontations and misunderstandings. 53. Those who converted to christianity were titleless men A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 54. This character, a boy of 14, is introduced at the beginning of chapter two as a gift to avoid war. A) Okonkwo. B) Grandchild. C) Name. D) You're looking for. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) You're looking for. 55. Because of the horrible drought one of Okonkwo's friends gives him another how many seeds? A) 200. B) 300. C) 500. D) 400. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 400. 56. Which of these is an example of an inquiry? A) Who's there?. B) Well . C) Knock knock. D) Oh no!. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Who's there?. 57. Did Unoka ever gain any titles? A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No. 58. What were cowries made of? A) Sticks. B) Rocks. C) Seashells. D) Cowhides. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Seashells. 59. "A watched pot never boils." . A) Agitate. B) Esoteric. C) Proverb. D) Accord. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Proverb. 60. What is the meaning of the proverb, "He who brings kola brings life" ? (page 5) A) Everyone likes kola because it brings life to the parties. B) Kola nuts are regarded as money to the Ibo. C) The kola nut is a symbol of hospitality and friendship. D) Without kola, there would be no life. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The kola nut is a symbol of hospitality and friendship. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAfrican Literature QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesThings Fall Apart Quiz 1Things Fall Apart Quiz 3Things Fall Apart Quiz 4Things Fall Apart Quiz 5Things Fall Apart Quiz 6Things Fall Apart Quiz 7Things Fall Apart Quiz 8Things Fall Apart Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books