TFA Book Test

He was a well known, successful wrestler when he was young. As an adult, he was a wealthy farmer and strong warrior.

He was Okonkwo’s father. He was lazy and improvident. He constantly borrowed money that he didn’t repay.

The men of Mbaino, a neighboring village, had murdered a woman of Umuofia, and the men wanted revenge.

It takes place in the village of Umuofia, in Africa.

The men didn’t go to war unless the reason was accepted by the oracle.

He was afraid that he would resemble his father. His greatest passion was to hate everything his father loved.

Nwoye was lazy, not ambitious.

He brought home a boy from the village. His name was Ikemefuna.

He took gifts to a wealthy man in the village and asked him for some yam seeds.

At fist he tried to run away, and refused to eat. The family treated him well and he began to get used to living with them.

He beat his second wife.

Yams stood for manliness, and one who could feed his family on yams all year was a great man.

The Feast of the New Yam was held yearly before the harvest. It honored the earth goddess, Ani, and the ancestral spirits of the clan. New yams were offered to these powers. The old yams of the previous year were disposed of. All cooking and serving utensils were washed. Yam foo

His favorite child was Ezinma, daughter of Ekwefi. He often said it was a shame she wasn’t a boy.

He beat his second wife, Ekwefi, then fired his gun at her.

She was the priestess of Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves.

They enjoyed watching the young men of the village wrestle.

Ikemefuna acted as an elder brother. He made Nwoye feel grown up. Nwoye began acting more like a man.

He was inwardly pleased, although he would not show it. He did, however, invite the boys to sit with him and told them stories of the land.

They were delighted to have the locusts. They caught as many a possible, roasted them, and ate them as a delicacy.

The oracle decided that the villagers should kill him.

Okonkwo did, because he was afraid of being thought weak.

He thought of his own strength and success.

He said he was becoming a woman. A man who had killed five men in battle should not fall to pieces over the death of a boy.

Obierika said it was the kind of action that would not please the Earth; that the goddess would wipe out an entire family for such an action.

The suitor, Ibe, his father, Ukegbu, and uncle met with Obierika, his brothers, his son, and Okonkwo. They ate kola nuts and drank palm wine. Then Obierika gave Ukegbu a bundle of thirty short broomsticks. Ukegbu and his clan took the sticks outside. When they returned they gave a bundle of fifteen sticks to Obierika. He added ten more sticks and gave the bundle back. The two groups finally agreed at a bride

The polite word for leprosy was “the white skin.” The men in the hut thought the white men were lepers.

It was more like the companionship of equals, rather than that of mother and daughter.

She had borne ten children, but nine of them had died in infancy. She began giving them names like “Death, I implore you” and “May it not happen again.”

He said there was an ogbanje, a wicked child who, when it died, re-entered its mother’s womb to be born again. He said Ekwefi should go and stay with her people when she became pregnant again.

The medicine man ordered that there be no mourning or funeral. He mutilated the dead child and buried it in the Evil forest. He said this would make the ogbanje think about coming again.

This was a special kind of stone that formed the link between an ogbanje and the spirit world. If it were discovered, then the child would not die. When Okagbue found Ezinma’s iyi-uwa, the people knew Ezinma’s troubles were over.

He brewed a potion made of leaves and herbs, then put her over the steam.

A woman’s birth family was having a dispute with her husband because he was mistreating her. The only decision the man would accept in the case was that of the symbolic meeting of the clan spirits.

Chielo wanted to take Ezinma to see Agbala.

She followed Chielo and Ezinma to the cave of Agbala.

He followed her, too, with his machete.

The family of the suitor was bringing palm

They were thought to be behaving like men if they brought a generous amount.

The bride-to-be went to live with her suitor’s family for seven market weeks.

He was the clan elder, so there was a great ceremony. There was a lot of shouting, drum beating, and firing of guns.

A man’s life was a series of transition rites which brought him closer to death and his ancestors.

Okonkwo accidentally shot a boy.

He and his family were forced to leave the clan for seven years. The men from Ezeudu’s quarter demolished Okonkwo’s houses and barn, and killed his animals.

They were cleansing the land which Okonkwo had polluted. It was not revenge.

He wondered why a man should suffer because of an inadvertent mistake. He also wondered why he had to throw away his wife’s twins when they were born. He concluded that the clan had to punish offenses so that the Earth would not loose her wrath on all the land, instead of just on the offender.

He took them to live with his mother’s kinsmen in Mbanta.

He thought his personal god or chi was not meant for great things. He was feeling despair

Obierika came to bring Okonkwo news of the village and money from the yam crop he was tending until Okonkwo returned home.

A white man riding an iron horse had come to the village. The elders killed the man and tied his iron horse to their sacred tree. A few months later, three white men came, saw the iron horse, and left again. A few weeks later, on market day, the white men surrounded the market and killed all of the people there.

He said he was afraid, because he had heard other stories about white men with powerful guns who took men away as slaves.

The missionaries had come to Umuofia. They had built a church, won converts, and were sending evangelists to surrounding villages.

He had found Okonkwo’s son, Nwoye.

It was a bicycle.

The villagers gave the missionaries land in the Evil Forest, because they didn’t really want them, and they thought the missionaries would decline the offer. When the missionaries were alive and well when the villagers expected them to be dead, they won more converts.

He was concerned that Nwoye and his other male children would abandon their ancestors. He pictured himself and his fathers waiting in vain for worship and sacrifice.

The osu, or outcasts, wanted to be admitted. Mr. Kiaga agreed, on the condition that they shave their long, tangled hair. They did so, and survived, and became strong proponents of the faith.

He held a great feast to thank his mother’s kinsmen for their hospitality.

He told them he feared for their generation because they didn’t understand how strong the bonds of kinship should be. He was concerned because they had let this strange religion start to break apart their clans.

He knew that he had lost a lot of ground, but he was determined to return with a flourish, and regain the lost time.

He told his sons if they were going to be weak and follow Nwoye, they should do it while he was alive. If they turned against him after he died, he would return and break their necks. He asked his daughters to wait until they returned to Umuofia to marry.

The Christian church had many converts. The white men had brought a government and built a court. The new prison was full of men who had broken the white men’s laws.

He said that too many of their people had joined with the white men in their religion and in upholding their laws. The white men managed to divide the clans and they were falling apart.

They liked the trading store and the resultant money that was coming into Umuofia. They were also starting to think that the religion had some substance.

He decided a frontal attack would not work. Instead, he built a school and a hospital. When the people began seeing results from their schooling, and had illnesses healed, they began converting.

He mourned for the clan because it was falling apart. He also mourned for the men, because he thought they were getting soft, like women.

Okonkwo and five of the leaders were imprisoned by the District Commissioner. The village of Umuofia was fined 200 bags of cowries.

He was full of hate and bitterness, and wanted revenge.

They met to discuss what their course of action should be.

Five court messengers came to stop the meeting. Okonkwo decapitated one of them.

He hanged himself.

Obierika said the Commissioner had driven Okonkwo to kill himself.

He thought about how he could use the incident as material in his book.