Part+Two+Chapter+Questions

1. **Discuss Okonkwo’s departure from his fatherland to his motherland for committing a female crime.** Why does Okonkwo despair? How does his mother’s brother Uchendu respond to Okonkwo in his despair?

2. **What has happened to the Abame clan?** How do Uchendu and Okonkwo account differently for the "foolishness" of the Abame? Whose reaction seems wiser in responding to new challenges to old ways of living? What does Uchendu mean when he says, "‘There is no story that is not true’"(141)?

3. **Trace the stages in the Africans’ reactions to the Christian missionaries coming to Umuofia and Mbanta, and to the missionaries’ evangelical efforts to convert the Africans**. What are the sources of misunderstanding between the Igbo and the missionaries? What kinds of Africans are attracted to the new religion and why? Why does Nwoye convert to Christianity? How does Okonkwo react to Nwoye’s conversion?

4. **Why are the people of Mbanta largely content to allow the Christians to remain in their midst at this point--the end of Part Two**? What are the differences between the religion of the Mbanta people and that of the Christian missionaries?

5.** Analyze the speeches by Uchendu and an elder of the //umunna// (166-167).** They provide the reader insight into the changes that they have seen in recent generations of their people. What are these changes and why do they cause the elders to fear for the younger generation and the future of the clan? How might these changes prepare the way for the white man’s success in imposing his rule in Africa?