Answers to Fathers of Nations Excerpt 4

 Excerpt 4 Answers Fathers of Nations

(a) Place this excerpt to its immediate context. (4 marks)

Before

• Abiola wants to revise his notes on the presidents' debate before going to bed.

• Ms McKenzie pays him a surprise visit.

• Feigning a mother-son allegiance, she asks Abiola how his day was.

After

• Ms McKenzie enquires from Abiola if the other people working alongside Mr

Longway are Professor Kimani, Comrade Melusi, Pastor Chiamaka and

Engineer Tahir.

• Abiola asks Ms McKenzie if it is Mr Longway who had told her about the four,

but she informs her that it is Nick.

• She tells Abiola that Nick also told her about The Trick.

(b) Identify and illustrate two character traits of Abiola and one character
trait of Fiona McKenzie in the excerpt. (6 marks)

Abiola

• He is open/straightforward/plain

He opens up to Ms McKenzie that he is the guide.

• He is secretive/privy

He asks Fiona to keep his disclosure, that he is the guide, to herself. He has hidden

his links to Path Alpha by using an alias (guide).

• He is realistic/perceptive

He knows very well that if some heads of state who believed he should focus

exclusively on Way Omega heard about his links to Path Alpha, they would

demand his scalp/head/life.

• He is uncertain/flattering/inconsistent

Asked by Ms McKenzie if he still thought the summit would adopt Way Omega,

he appears uncertain and tells her that the fate would be determined in the next

twelve hours. Ms McKenzie also notes that Abiola didn't sound upbeat that day

as he did two days before.

(c) Discuss two themes evident in the excerpt. (4 marks)

Change/transition

Abiola's optimism about the summit adopting Way Omega appears to have ebbed.

Ms McKenzie notes that he didn't sound as upbeat as he did two days earlier.

 Deception

Abiola has been deceptive, hiding his real identity under an alias (guide) for fear

of being seen as a traitor by a section of heads of state who wanted him to focus

exclusively on Way Omega.

Conflict/antagonism

Mr Longway and his group want the summit to adopt Path Alpha while the heads

of state are set to adopt/ratify Way Omega, a rival development strategy.

(d) (i) Instead of adopting Way Omega, the group wants the summit to adopt
Path Alpha. (Replace "instead" with a complex preposition). (1 mark)

• In place of adopting Way Omega, the group wants the summit to adopt Påth

Alpha.

(ii) Wait a minute. (Add a suitable question tag)

Wait a minute, will you?

(iii) So, Mr Longway and company want me to help them put it there•

(Report)

(1 mark)

Abiola told Ms McKenzie that Mr Longway and company wanted him to help

them put it there.

(e) Pick and illustrate two stylistic devices used by the author in the excerpt.
(4 marks)

Use of dialogue

There is a conversation between Abiola and Ms McKenzie which helps us

understand their character traits e.g. that Ms McKenzie is

inquisitive/interrogative, while Abiola is deceptive and secretive.

• Contrast

Abiola's optimism and zeal of the summit to adopting Way Omega has been

contrasted. Two days earlier, he had been so upbeat but he appeared cold that

day.

• Rhetorical Questions

Is it just me or has it actually got colder over the past two days?

(f) Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases used in the
excerpt. (4 marks)

• Upbeat — enthusiastic/hopeful/pessimistic

• Tracking down — following/pursuing

• Draw — consult/refer

e Scalp — head/life 

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