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1

In the play The Gods Are Not To Blame, Odewale became King of Kutuje by

  • A. usurpation in a typical Ijekun manner
  • B. deserting the poeple of Ikolu whose army he led
  • C. divulging the war secrets of Ikolu to Kutuje
  • D. leading Kutuje in a war against Ikolu.
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2

'No, let them attack me. Is it not Ignorance that makes the rat attack the cat? Ten thousand of them-let them ... attack me. they have the arms, they have the swords. But me... I have only one weapon and this i have used, and mine is the victory...'
The one weapon to which the speaker in The Gods Are Not To Blame refers is

  • A. pprophecy
  • B. courage
  • C. truth
  • D. justice.
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3

'The let these eyes around me close, Close close in sleep, close in sleep. That is my word-the mountain always sleeps. Sleep Sleep... sleep..sleep...'
These lines from The Gods Are Not To Blame were chanted by

  • A. Iya Aburo to mesmerise her son
  • B. Baba Fakunle to mesmerise his assailants
  • C. Odewale to mesmerise his assailants
  • D. old man to mesmerise Odewale.
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'But Obatal,
God Creation,
has a way
of consoling the distressed.
The consolation referred to by the narrator in The Gods Are Not To Blame is the

  • A. great peace that reigned in the land of Kutuje
  • B. subjugation of the warlike people of Ikolu
  • C. pregnancy of Aburo, Odewale's second wife
  • D. birth of Aderopo by Ojuola.
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5

FIRST BODYGUARD: A madman wanting to see the king! The world, indeed, is mad OJUOLA: How do you know he is a madman?
Which of the following is the answer given by the second bodyguard to Ojuola in The Gods Are Not To Blame?

  • A. everyone can see he is mad, your highness
  • B. only a madman would want to see the king now, your highness
  • C. we all know him very well, your highness
  • D. he is not a man of our tribe, your highness.
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