8/1/19 Homework

Dear Students,

Answer the questions and hand it in tomorrow. 

Level 1: Please answer questions 1-2
Level 2: Please answer questions 1-4
Level 3: Please answer questions 1-5

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

Directions: In order to demonstrate your understanding of the chapters you read, answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. Use complete sentences

Chapter Eighteen 

1. How did the converts overstep their bounds? What was the result?
2. What other system has the white man brought? What is the purpose of this new system?
3. Why would none of the clan members consider killing a convert?
4. Who are the osu? What rules and/or social taboos keep the osu "enslaved"?
5. What does Mr. Kiaga mean when he says, "He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh"? 

7/31/19 Homework

Dear Students,

Answer the questions and hand it in tomorrow. 

Level 1: Please answer questions 1-2
Level 2: Please answer questions 1-4
Level 3: Please answer questions 1-5

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

Directions: In order to demonstrate your understanding of the chapters you read, answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. Use complete sentences

Chapter Eighteen 

1. How did the converts overstep their bounds? What was the result?
2. What other system has the white man brought? What is the purpose of this new system?
3. Why would none of the clan members consider killing a convert?
4. Who are the osu? What rules and/or social taboos keep the osu "enslaved"?
5. What does Mr. Kiaga mean when he says, "He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh"? 

7/29/19 Homework

Dear Students,

Answer the questions and hand it in tomorrow. 

Level 1: Please answer questions 1-2
Level 2: Please answer questions 1-4
Level 3: Please answer questions 1-5

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

Directions: In order to demonstrate your understanding of the chapters you read, answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. Use complete sentences

Chapter Sixteen

1. Who were the efulefu?
2. Why were the efulefu among the first converts to the new religion? Evaluate the effect their conversion has on the rest of the villagers.
3. Why did Obierika come to visit Okonkwo?
4. How did Nwoye respond when Obierika confronted him? Do you think Nwoye is justified in his response? Why or why not?
5. What was oddly humorous about the interpreter's dialect? What effect did this have on the men who came to listen to him?

7/26/19 Homework

Dear Students,

Answer the questions and hand it in tomorrow. 

Level 1: Please answer questions 1-2
Level 2: Please answer questions 1-4
Level 3: Please answer questions 1-5

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

Directions: In order to demonstrate your understanding of the chapters you read, answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. Use complete sentences

Chapter Fifteen 

1. Why did Obierika come to visit Okonkwo?
2. What does Uchendu lament that the young men do not do anymore?
3. What do the Ibo call the transport that the first white man arrived on? What do you think it actually is?
4. Why did the men of Abame kill the white man? What happened as a result?
5. What does Uchendu mean when he says, "There is no story that is not true"?

7/25/19 Homework

Dear Students,

Answer the questions and hand it in tomorrow. 

Level 1: Please answer questions 1-2
Level 2: Please answer questions 1-4
Level 3: Please answer questions 1-5

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

Directions: In order to demonstrate your understanding of the chapters you read, answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. Use complete sentences

Chapter Fourteen

1. When was the last time Okonkwo remembers visiting Mbanta?
2. How is Okonkwo greeted by his mother's kinsmen? Why do you think they do not judge him negatively for his crime?
3. What are "the nuts of the water of heaven"?
4. What is chi? Why does Okonkwo now believe "a man could not rise above the destiny of his chi? 5. What is the isa-ifi ceremony? 

7/24/19 Homework

Dear Students,

Answer the questions and hand it in tomorrow. 

Level 1: Please answer questions 1-2
Level 2: Please answer questions 1-4
Level 3: Please answer questions 1-5

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

Directions: In order to demonstrate your understanding of the chapters you read, answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. Use complete sentences

Chapter Thirteen

1. How was the early morning message delivered to the clan?

2. Who was the man who died? Why did a cold shiver run down Okonkwo's spine at the mention of the man's name?

3. How does the funeral demonstrate the greatness of the man who has died?

4. What does the author mean when he writes "A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors"?

5. How was Ezeudu’s son killed during the funeral?

7/23/19 Homework

Dear Students,

Answer the questions and hand it in tomorrow. 

Level 1: Please answer questions 1-2
Level 2: Please answer questions 1-4
Level 3: Please answer questions 1-5

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

Directions: In order to demonstrate your understanding of the chapters you read, answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. Use complete sentences

Chapter Twelve

1. What is the neighborhood celebrating?

2. How is this celebration different from others like the wrestling matches and the Feast of the New Yam?

3. How many trips to the shrine did Okonkwo make the night before? Why do you think he didn't just wait at the shrine for Ekwefi and Chielo to arrive?

4. Both the war magic of Umuofia and the market magic of Umuike are personified as old women. Why do you suppose this is?

5. What is “the one that uses its tail to drive the flies away”?