Excerpt 11: Fathers of Nations Sample Excerpts with Answers
Its tip, sharp on the day of purchase but sharper and sharper each day from use, caught Engineer Tahir's right in his left eye and slit it open.
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answer the questions that follow. (25 marks) As she was removing her head veil the next morning, readying for
laboratory work that it would have impeded, he went and slapped her. What made
this assault seem "reasonable' was that it happened during Heritage Week,
a period that the leader of Libya had set aside to give his people time to
celebrate their renowned history. Apparently, then, Engineer Tahir slapped Ms Mahmoud to administer
discipline on a female subordinate for shedding her head veil in public, in
violation of Libyan culture. In truth, he did it to take revenge against
someone who, he thought, had rejected his advances. Discipline, revenge, or
whatever it in fact was, she did not take it lying down. She struck back. Had
she stopped to think of the chain of events her reaction might set off, she
would have restrained herself. Yet, in the heat of anger, when no one thinks logically, who has
not reacted…
