What if one sentence could say the whole tragedy of a dying culture? This Things Fall Apart Quotes Quiz challenges your knowledge of who said the famous lines from the book’s most important moments. And when you start, remember the voices of Umuofia.
Things Fall Apart Quotes Quiz Questions
- “Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond.”
- “He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”
- “The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion.”
- “When a man says yes, his chi says yes also.”
- “The earth cannot punish me for obeying her messenger.”
- “Fear of failure and of weakness drove him on.”
- “It was like the companionship of equals, unlike the relationship with Okonkwo.”
- “Do not bear a hand in his death. He calls you his father.”
- “She should have been a boy.”
- “Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.”
- “The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.”
- “It is the kind of story that mothers tell their children at night.”
- “Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly.”
- “He was afraid of being thought weak.”
- “Perhaps I have been away too long.”
- “It is too late to turn back now. The white man owns the land.”
- “They called him the Roaring Flame.”
- “He mourned for the clan, which he saw breaking up and falling apart.”
- “A man who makes trouble for others is also making it for himself.”
- “Okonkwo’s fame had grown like a bush-fire in the harmattan.”
- “The lizard that jumped from the high iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no one else did.”
- “If one finger brought oil, it soiled the others.”
- “A child belongs to its father and his family even if its mother is the first to hear its cry.”
- “You drove him to kill himself; and now he will be buried like a dog.”
- “That boy calls you father. Do not bear a hand in his death.”
- “The clan was like a lizard; if it lost its tail it soon grew another.”
- “Okonkwo’s gun had exploded and a piece of iron had pierced the boy’s heart.”
- “He could return in seven years. That was the punishment.”
- “The white man’s court has come to our clan.”
- “He wiped his mat with his palm and said, ‘We have seen something that cannot be forgotten.’”