Written Assignment 1: No Longer at Ease
 

Please answer the following questions based on your reading of Chinua Achebe's No Longer at Ease. This assignment (typed and double-spaced) is due when class begins on Monday, January 24. 
 

1. What are Obi's attitudes toward bribery when he first returns to Nigeria from England. 
   
   
2. What are his attitudes at the end of the book? 
   
   
3. What has caused him to change his mind? What arguments? What experiences? 
   
   
4. The president of the Umuofia Progressive Union says, "we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad, you should look for a big juicy one." (p. 7) What does he mean? 
   
   
5. On his way back to his village, the police stop the bus Obi is riding in. What happens next and why is it significant? 
   
   
6. Toward the end of the novel, Obi's mother dies. Why is that significant?