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This question is based on Wole Soyinka's
The Trials of Brother Jero.
Which of the following qualities best describes Jero's ability to keep his followers?

  • A. He is a man of God
  • B. He distributes gifts to his followers
  • C. He foretells their future
  • D. He manipulates them
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This question is based on Wole Soyinka's
The Trials of Brother Jero.
JERO: In that case, since, Brother Chume,
your wife seems such a wicked, willful sinner,
I think ....
CHUME: Yes, Holy One...?
JERO: You must take her home tonight...
Jero concedes to Chume taking his wife home and beating her in order to

  • A. keep his secret secret
  • B. get the beating out of the way quickly
  • C. enable jero get into his house
  • D. keep Chume's loyalty
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3

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's
The Trials of Brother Jero.
CHUME: Who said you were? Does the prophet live here?
SAME MAN: Yes. Over there. That house
CHUME: So...so..so...s...
Chume's reaction in the exchange above reflects

  • A. disappointment
  • B. rumination
  • C. contemplation
  • D. awareness
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This question is based on Wole Soyinka's
The Trials of Brother Jero.
Jero's opening speech in the is a

  • A. soliloquy
  • B. monologue
  • C. narrative
  • D. confession
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5

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's
The Trials of Brother Jero.
The most sensitive of Jero's disciples is

  • A. the Faithful Penitent
  • B. Brother Chume
  • C. the Old Couple
  • D. the woman with the exposed thigh
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