SECTION B: COMPREHENSION Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. 6. The...

SECTION B: COMPREHENSION Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. 6. The feast of the New Yam was held every year, before the harvest began, to honour the earth goddess and ancestral spirits of the clan. New yam could not be eaten until some had first been offered these powers. Men and women, young and old, looked forward to the New Yam Festival because it began the season of plenty the New Year. On the last night before the festival, yams of the old year were all disposed of by those who still had them. The New Year must begin with tasty, fresh yams and not the shriveled and fibrous crop of the previous year. All cooking-pots, calabashes, and wooden bowls were thoroughly washed, especially the wooden mortar in which yam was pounded. Yam foo-foo and vegetable soup was the chief food in the celebration. So much of it was cooked that no matter how heavily the family ate, or how many friends and relations they invited from neighbouring village, there was always a huge quantity of food left over at the end of the day. (Achebe Chinna): Things Fall Apart)
Option 1
A. When was the feast of the New Yam held?

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Asked by Daniel on 12th August, 2020