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381

The oracle warns us that we we have left our pot unwatched, and our food now burns.'
This statement in The Gods Are Not To Blame refers to

  • A. the killing of Adetusa
  • B. the crime of incest committed by King Odewale
  • C. Aderopo's quarrel with King Odewale
  • D. the banishment of Aderopo.
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382

'...the toad likes water but not when the water is boiling'. King Odewale in the Gods Are Not To Blame uses this proverb to explain why he

  • A. he exiled himself from the home of his supposed parents.
  • B. exiled Aderopo from his presence
  • C. treated Baba Fakunle with disrespect
  • D. no longer likes the land of Kutuje.
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383

Baba Fakunle: How much did he give you boy?
Boy: Ten cowries, Baba.
Baba Fakunle: Hand him back nine.
The order to return nine cowries was given by Baba Fakunle because he

  • A. wanted to spit the King by taking only one cowrie
  • B. felt insulted that he was given only ten cowries
  • C. did not want to meddle with leprous monry given with bloody hands
  • D. wanted to emphasize that the messanger of Olodumare takes only one cowrie.
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384

''When the frog in front falls in a pit, others behind takes caution... When crocodiles eat their own eggs, what will they will they not do to the flesh of a frog?''
In the context of The Gods Are Not To Blame, the person who made this statement is alleging that king Adetusa

  • A. died falling in to a pit
  • B. fell victim to man eating crocodiles
  • C. was killed by the people of Kutuje
  • D. was killed by the Ijekun people.
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385

Odewale shifts the blame for his tragedy from the gods to himself and claims that his tragedy is a result of his own weakness. The weakness he claims is love of

  • A. power
  • B. adventure
  • C. his tribe
  • D. divination.
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