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This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
The statement 'the new religion was like a leper' means that

  • A. the new religion, if welcomed, will overshadow the traditional religions
  • B. the Europeans who brought the new religion were lepers
  • C. all those who join the new religion would become lepers
  • D. religion invites diseases
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This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
''' It is not bravery for a man to beat his wife.
I know a man and his wife must quarrel; there is no abomination in that... No, you may quarrel; but let it not end in fighting...''
These words concern

  • A. Obika and his mother
  • B. Obika and Okuata
  • C. Akueke and her husband
  • D. all the young men in the village
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This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
'The crisis over the New Yam Feast arose because

  • A. Ezeulu refused to eat the sacred yams at the appropriate time
  • B. the harvest season came too early
  • C. the Christians in Umuaro diverted their own yams to their church
  • D. Ezeulu's absence from Umuaro had prevented him from eating the sacred yams at the right time
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This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
''....that no man however great was greater than his people; that no one ever won judgement against his clan.''
Achebe's conclusion was that

  • A. the individual should submit his will to thatof the clan
  • B. very few people have the ability to dictate to their clan
  • C. a man should impose his judgement on the clan if he is strong enough to do so
  • D. the clan generally ensures that the individual is reduced to weakness
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This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter
'....One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs knock one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end.'
On what occasion do these lines occur in the novel?

  • A. At the burial ceremony of Ramatoulaye's husband
  • B. After the confession of Ramatoulaye's daughter, that she was pregnant
  • C. When Ramatoulaye was learning to drive the Flat 125
  • D. When Ramatoulaye saw her mother sick in bed
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