Things Fall Apart Terms
Across
- 4. the name of one of the titles or ranks
- 5. tribe in TFA; based on Nigerian Igbo Tribe
- 6. custom of having multiple spouses at once
- 8. country in which Umuofia is set; coastal
- 10. Ch. 1 proverbs are compared to _______
- 11. individual, personal god
- 12. the belief that there is only one god
- 17. people on a religious mission; Christians
- 18. woman; used of a man who has taken no title
- 19. African American novelist, poet, and critic
- 21. essential crop for Ibo; New _____ Festival
- 22. one who impersonates ancestral spirit
- 23. outcasts; unfit to socialize with freeborns
Down
- 1. bride-price; payment made to husband
- 2. one nation takes control over another
- 3. nut used in rituals; sign of respect
- 7. prophet who connects with supreme beings
- 9. insect that arrives before white settlers
- 13. a child who repeatedly dies and is reborn
- 14. religion; worships gods,goddesses,& nature
- 15. rigid class system based on wealth, birth
- 16. large living quarters of the head of family
- 20. supreme god