Chapter 6
1. What do all the villagers go to the ilo to see? (46-47)
2. Maduka, the son of Obierika, is cheered by the crowd. Why? (47)
3. What do Chielo and Ekwefi discuss about Ezinma? What might this suggest about Ezinma? (48)
4. What is Chielo's role in the village? How does she feel toward Ezinma? (49)
Chapter 7
1. What type of man does Okonkwo want Nwoye to become? (52-53)
2. How does Nwoye feel about his father's desire that he be masculine and violent? (53)
3. How do the people of Umuofia feel about the locusts? (55)
4. What do the locusts do when they arrive in Umuofia? (56)
5. Infer: How might the locusts be foreshadowing future events? What do locusts symbolize?
6. What has Umuofia decided to do with Ikemefuna? Why? (57)
7. What does Ogbuefi Ezeudu instruct Okonkwo not to do? Why? (57)
8. What does Ikemefuna think is going to happen to him? (57)
9. Why does Ikemefuna become afraid of the men walking with him? (60-61)
10. What does Okonkwo do? Why does he do it? (61)
11. How does Nwoye react when Okonkwo returns home? (61) Infer: How might this event be a turning point for Nwoye's character?
Chapter 8
How is Okonkwo emotionally affected by his action in the previous chapter? How do his behaviors show this? (63-64)
What does Okonkwo wish about his daughter, Ezinma? (64)
What do Okonkwo's feelings about Ezinma say about the gender roles in Umuofian society?
Which character is Nwoye similar to? How? (66)
What does Obierika disagree with Okonkwo about? (66-67)
What do the men use broomsticks to negotiate? (72-73)
What is the agreed upon bride-price for Akueke? (73)
What do the men of Umuofia believe about the white men? (74) What does this say about their exposure to white people?
Chapter 9
1. Ekwefi awakes Okonkwo early in the morning pounding on his door. What is she anxious to tell him? (75-76)
2. Why is Ezinma an only child? What happened to her siblings? (77)
3. After the second death, Okonkwo goes to the medicine man to find out why this is happening. What explanation does the diviner give? (77)
4. What is an ogbanje child? (77)
5. What does Okagbue, the medicine man, dig up from under the orange tree that makes the people of the village believe that Ezinma will live to adulthood? (84-85)
6. What does Okonkwo bring back from the bush while Ezinma lays sick in Ekwefi's hut? What is it used to make? (85-86)
Chapter 10
How many egwugwu are there? What is significant about this number? (88-89)
What is the leader of the egwugwu called? (89)
Literally, what are the egwugwu? What do they represent? (88-90)
What is the issue Uzowulu, Odukwe, and Mgbafo need to have resolved? Describe the case in as much specific detail as possible. (90-92)
What do the egwugwu tell Uzowulu and Odukwe to do? (93)
How do the egwugwu, the judges of Umuofia, feel about having to hear this case? What might this say about gender roles in Ibo society? (94)