Chapter 13

What is the main idea of this chapter?

What is ekwe?

What did Ezeudu advise Okonkwo the last time he saw him?

What or who kills Ezeudu's son?

Okonkwo and his family must leave the village. Why?

Find paragraph 6, which begins, "The land of the living …" The narrator says, "A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors."

What is the definition of a "transition rite"?

Find the last paragraph in Chapter 13 where Obierika is thinking, "Why should a man suffer so grievously for an offense he had committed inadvertently?" What does "inadvertently" mean in this context?

Is there anything that is unclear in this chapter?