Death and the King's Horseman Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Death and the King's Horseman? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Who says, "Yes white man, I am sure you advised it. You advise all our lives although on the authority of what gods, I do not know"?


Olunde
Amusa
Joseph
Elesin
Q. Who says, "And that is the good cause for which you desecrate an ancestral mask?"


Joseph
Amusa
Olunde
Jane Pilkings
Q. Who burns Elesin with the insult "Oh you self-vaunted stem of the plantain, how hollow it all proves"?


Iyaloja
Jane Pilkings
Elesin's wife
Simon Pilkings
Q. Who does one of the market girls call "the eater of white left-overs"?


Joseph
Amusa
The aide-de-camp
Elesin
Q. Who uses a racial epithet in addressing Olunde?


Simon Pilkings
Jane Pilkings
The aide-de-camp a.k.a. Bob
Joseph