Chapter 9

What is the main idea of this chapter?

How is the relationship between Ekwefi and Ezinma described?

Ekwefi gave birth to many children, who all died before the age of three. What did the medicine man believe about this situation?

What does the medicine man tell Okonkwo to do after Ekwefi lost her third child?

What does the medicine man (Okagbue) do with the third dead child?

Who or what does Ekwefi blame for the deaths of her children?

When Ezinma was nine years old, Okagbue asked her an important question. What was the question?

What does Okagbue find after digging a pit by the orange tree?

Okonkwo makes a medicine from grasses, stems, leaves, and boiling water. What does he do with the medicine?

Find the section where Okagbue finds something in the pit he has dug. After he throws the object out of the pit, "Okagbue emerged and without saying a word or even looking at the spectators he went to is goatskin bag, took out two leaves and began to chew them."

What does "emerged" mean in this context?

Is there anything that is unclear in this chapter?