Fathers of Nations Excerpt 20 Answers
(a) Briefly explain what happens just before the excerpt. (4 marks)
• After the summit resumes the sitting, President Bangoura conducts the
process of choosing between Way Omega and Path Alpha through coin
tossing.
He invites Mr Zinto and Dr Afolabi to join him at the rostrum as witnesses
to the coin tossing.
The Choice Matrix picks Path Alpha and awaits its ratification by the
presidents.
The Path Alpha delegates are excited at the choice of their development
strategy.
(b) Identify and illustrate
two character traits of the Summit Chair and
one of President Dibonso.
(6 marks)
The Summit Chair
• He is scheming/sly/cunning
Aware that the summit coul&turn acrimonious, he had come up with The
Trick that saves the day, for it had eliminated the need for consensus that
he could not achieve.
• He is humourous/amusing/gay
In wrapping up the summit, he wishes the presidents safe travel back home,
humourously telling them to travel like lions, without fear of attack or
worry about supper.
• He is resolute/firm/uncowed
He stands his ground that the summit stood closed in the face of President
Dibonso's rage over the method used to choose Path Alpha, The Choice
President Dibonso
He is impatient/agitated/irritatcd
He feels irritated by Bangoura's The Choice Matrix that chooses Path
Alpha over the presidents' mooted Way Omega. He cuts into the Summit
Chair's closing remarks and tells him that the presidents reject the matrix,
lock, stock and barrel.
He is daring/bold/audacious
He daringly pulls out a pocket-size pistol and dares the Summit Chair to
make him put it away.
(c) What two themes come
out in the excerpt? (4 marks)
• Conflict/antagonism
A sharp conflict arises between President Dibonso and the Summit Chair.
The former is opposed to The Choice Matrix method that picks Path Alpha
while the latter believes the choice made is final. The conflict is so intense
that President Dibonso pulls out a pistol to shoot the Summit Chair.
• Trickery/Deceit/Canniness
The Summit Chair's The Trick saves the day by eliminating the need for
the consensus which he could not achieve.
• Hospitality/Friendliness
As an indication of hospitality, the Pinnacle had organised a closing
ceremony (and a dinner) on the Mezzanine floor for the heads of state.
(d) (i) We
reject the matrix, lock, stock and barrel. (Write beginning with
"Lock") (1 mark)
• Lock, stock, and barrel, we reject the matrix.
(e) Discuss two stylistic
devices used in the excerpt. (4 marks)
• Use of rhetorical questions: E.g. Had The Trick not saved the day? Had
it not eliminated the need for the consensus he could not achieve?
Use of a simile. E.g. ... travel like lions, without fear of attack or worry
about supper.
• Contrast: The chair's position concerning the choice of Path Alpha is
contrasted with Dibonso's: while the chair supports the pick, Dibonso is
strongly opposed to it.
(f) (i) I said the summit
is closed. (Rewrite using a question tag) (1 mark)
• I said the summit is closed, didn't I?
(ii) "President Dibonso, put that thing away!" demanded the Chair.
(Rewrite in the reported speech) (1 mark)
• The Chair ordered/commanded President Dibonso to put that thing away.
(g) Explain the meaning of
the following words as used in the excerpt. (3
marks)
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• cap — crown/better/top
• sizzling — blistering/blazing/glowing