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TFA Part 2 - Assessment

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21 questions
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True/False: Okonkwo was banished with his family from his village.

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True/False: Okonkwo embraces this "fresh start" and feels renewed and youthful in starting over in a new place.

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The most common name in this tribe is "Nneka" which translates to "Mother is Supreme."

Why does Uchendu say "Mother is Supreme"?

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Obierika and Okonkwo discuss the presence of the white men in the area. Their perspective can be most closely summarized as...

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As the missionaries arrive, all of the following EXCEPT ____ are barriers to the mission's work of evangelizing to Ibo people.

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In Part 2, Okonkwo and Nwoye's relationship has become...

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At the end of his time of exile, Okonkwo...

Excerpt - Things Fall Apart (157-158)

"It was one [of the converts] who in his zeal brought the church into serious conflict with the clan a year later by killing the sacred python, the emanation of the god of water.

The royal python was the most revered animal in Mbanta and all the surrounding clans. It was addressed as "Our Father," and was allowed to go wherever it chose, even into people's beds. It ate rats in the house and sometimes swallowed hens' eggs. If a clansman killed a royal python accidentally, he made sacrifices of atonement and performed an expensive burial ceremony such as was done for a great man. No punishment was prescribed for a man who killed the python knowingly. Nobody thought that such a thing could ever happen.

Perhaps it never did happen. That was the way the clan at first looked at it. No one had actually seen the man do it. The story had arisen among the Christians themselves."
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A convert to Christianity may have killed the sacred python for all of the following reasons EXCEPT...

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The python is addressed as "Our Father" ...

This detail is an example of which two literary devices?

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This passage repeats (like a gyre) which similar motif from earlier in the story?

Butterfly

by Chinua Achebe


Speed is violence
Power is violence
Weight is violence

The butterfly seeks safety in lightness
In weightless, undulating flight

But at a crossroads where mottled light
From trees falls on a brash new highway
Our convergent territories meet

I come power-packed enough for two
And the gentle butterfly offers
Itself in bright yellow sacrifice
Upon my hard silicon shield.
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Achebe uses all of the following literary devices throughout the poem EXCEPT...

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Speed... Power... Weight...

all refer literally to...

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What effect does the world "brash" have on the poem's meaning?

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Which detail from the poem provides the best clue for the meaning of the word "convergent"?

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In the context of the poem, the color yellow most closely symbolizes...

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The "sacrifice" of the butterfly could most closely be described as...

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The author illustrates the conflict between man(made) and nature through which contrasts:

(check all that apply)

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The author's tone in the poem could best be described as...

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This poem grapples metaphorically with what happens when...

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What is the central theme of the poem?

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Directions: Construct a complete AEC paragraph in which you explore and analyze a stark contrast in Part 2 of Things Fall Apart.

Use at least 4 direct, cited pieces of evidence from the text to develop a paragraph exploring how Achebe uses contrast to illustrate a deeper meaning/purpose.

(8-10+ sentences, see rubric for scoring)