Fathers of Nations Excerpt 16 Answers
Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow. (25 marks)
The door to the bathroom opened. Fiona emerged and started walking
but stopped. Her eyes had not adjusted to the darkness in the living room.
"Where are you?" she asked.
"Over here" he said. "I have taken a couch in the
living room. Go take the bed in the bedroom."
"You're acting as if you might have a wife," she said,
"Do you?"
"No, she divorced me last year." "Did she?"
"Yes"
"Let's see now. You studied in America at a marriageable
age."
"So let me guess." "Go ahead.
"She is American."
"Who? Pamela?"
"Yes, it is. And, yes, she is American. Enough about me now.
Let's turn to you. Shouldn't your name still be Fiona McKenzie?"
"Who told you it might hye changed?" She started walking
to khe bedroom. Her eyes had adjusted to the only light.
"Why was the Liberian Mauler calling you Joy instead?"
"It's local slang for a streetwalker."
"He was calling you a streetwalker?"
"Yes. Do you want me to draw a picture for you? Where are you
from anyway? Mars?
"No: Nigeria. Married?" "Me?"
The phone rang. He rose and answered the landline by the couch.
When he ended the call, his mood
had darkened.
"What's the matter?" she asked him. "You seem upset
all of a sudden. Who was on the phone?"
"One Chineke Chiamaka," he said. "The man was
claiming that I chided him for being drunk,when all he had had was
a"Péisi." He wriggled in his improvised bed to protest his innocence
against that claim. "It beats me how he got my suite phone number in the
first place," he added. "Anyway, I did not chide him. Why do people
like to tell lies?"
Excerpt 16 questions on Fathers of Nations
(a) Place the excerpt to its immediate context. (4 marks)
(b) Discuss two-character traits of Abiola and one character trait of Fiona McKenzie. (6 marks)
(c) (i) Why do people like to tell lies? (Report) (1 mark)
(d) (ii) The phone rang. (Add a question tag) (1 mark) iii) No, she divorced me last year. (Rewrite in the passive) (1 mark)
(e) Highlight two themes raised in the excerpt. (4 marks)
(f) Identify and illustrate two features of style used in the excerpt. (4 marks)
(g) Explain the meaning of the following words and phrase as used in the excerpt. (3 marks)
- darkened
- chided