Things Fall Apart

Chapter 11 Study Guide

1. What was Nwayieke notorious for?

Late cooking
2. What were the women and children doing in their huts?
Telling folktales and singing songs
3. How does Tortoise get all the food when he and the birds visit the people of the sky?
He named himself All of You and he tricked the birds
4. What about the tortoise does the story of the tortoise and the birds explain?
How a tortoise has a rough shell. “If you make trouble for others, others will make trouble for
you.”
5. Whose loud high-pitched voice broke the outer silence of the night?
Chelo
6. What does the priestess want?
She said Agabala wanted to see her daughter eczema
7. What does Ekwefi decide to do after Chielo takes Ezinma?
Decided to follow
8. What curse from Agbala does Chielo promise to the person following her?
Shaved her head with a dull blade
9. To what village does Chielo take Ezinma first?
Umuarhi
10. Where does Chielo eventually take Ezinma?
Back to the cave
11. What oath does Ekwefi swear?
If Ezima is to die, she will die too
12. When they were young, why had Ekwefi married Anene instead of Okonkwo?
Okonkwo was too poor