Things Fall Apart Quote Identification Quiz

“He wiped his mat with his palm and said, ‘We have seen something that cannot be forgotten.’”

“He mourned for the clan, which he saw breaking up and falling apart.”

“Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.”

“The earth cannot punish me for obeying her messenger.”

“He could return in seven years. That was the punishment.”

“Fear of failure and of weakness drove him on.”

“The white man’s court has come to our clan.”

“Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly.”

“When a man says yes, his chi says yes also.”

“The clan was like a lizard; if it lost its tail it soon grew another.”

“That boy calls you father. Do not bear a hand in his death.”

“The lizard that jumped from the high iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no one else did.”

“A child belongs to its father and his family even if its mother is the first to hear its cry.”

“He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”

“Okonkwo’s fame had grown like a bush-fire in the harmattan.”

“The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.”

“It is too late to turn back now. The white man owns the land.”

“If one finger brought oil, it soiled the others.”

“She should have been a boy.”

“It was like the companionship of equals, unlike the relationship with Okonkwo.”

“You drove him to kill himself; and now he will be buried like a dog.”

“He was afraid of being thought weak.”

“A man who makes trouble for others is also making it for himself.”

“Perhaps I have been away too long.”

“Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond.”

“The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion.”

“They called him the Roaring Flame.”

“Do not bear a hand in his death. He calls you his father.”

“It is the kind of story that mothers tell their children at night.”

“Okonkwo’s gun had exploded and a piece of iron had pierced the boy’s heart.”