Excerpt 14: Fathers of Nations Sample Excerpts with Answers

An old hand who had anticipated many coups and nipped them in the bud before they got off the ground, was first to spot brewing trouble.
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 EXCERPT: 14 Fathers of Nations Questions

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Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow. (25 marks)

President Bibo Dibonso was a forced to reckon with. Forty years of supremacy had turned power into a habit then into a toy, and Dibonso himself into a permanent bully. On that day, a new anger was troubling him. Its cause, also new, had come only that morning. He had slept like a log the night before and, like a log, woken up stiff. This was not new. He woke up stiff like a log often these days. So, that morning, he decided to loosen up, for all it was worth, by standing up then bending down and straightening up again, once. The cause of his new anger arose from that little workout. In a first sign of loss of self-control, something warm trickled down between his legs. This had never happened before; it was new. A bolt on some valve inside him had gone loose, basically owing to old age. Old age has uncanny ways of loosening bolts even on valves best left alone.

He showered, of course, but his self-image had already suffered a blow no shower could undo. Since that incident, all words he uttered had a new anger, a terror he unleashed to make up for a loss of self-worth caused by an internal valve gone haywire. That anger was in his every word now.

"You have been quite a disgrace, Mr Chairman," he began. This language was extreme, even by his extreme standards.

"What did you say, President Dibonso?" asked the Chair, pretending he had not heard.

"You've totally lost control of the summit, Mr Chairman."

"What exactly do you mean by that, President Dibonso?"

"This debate is supposed to be about Way Omega and path Alpha. yet didn't you just let someone raise an imaginary issue not in either of these documents?" President Dibonso was referring to President Ibarosa, another fire-eater, and dared not mention him by name. "And I'll tell you something else, Mr Chairman."

"Keep it, President Dibonso," said the Chair curtly.

President Wasiwasi Wesiga, an old hand who had anticipated many coups and nipped them in the bud before they got off the ground, was first to spot brewing trouble. He moved at once to end it. "POINT OF ORDER," he shouted. He did not want trouble. CHAIRMAN, POINT OF ORDER!"

"Nonsense!" snapped the Chair at him. "What point of order?" Confused by his own fury after his clash with President Dibonso, he thought he was snapping at that President.

"Its about The Trick, Mr Chairman," said President Wesiga. He had taken no offence for being snapped at.

Excerpt 14 fathers of nations questions

a)      Place this excerpt in its immediate context. (5 marks)

b)      Discuss one thematic issue evident in this excerpt. (2 marks)

c)      Explain the imaginary issue that president Ibarosa raised, that was supposedly not in either of the documents. (2 marks)

d)      With clear illustrations, identify three styles used in this excerpt. (6 marks)

e)      How has president Dibonso been portrayed in this excerpt? (4 marks)

f)       Using information from elsewhere in the text, explain what The Trick is. (4 marks)

g)      Give the meaning of the following words as used in the excerpt.

(i)      Bully

(ii)    Fire-eater 

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