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Read the excerpt from "Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe.Of course the doors and windows were missing and five sheets off the roof. But what was that? And anyhow he had returned to Enugu early enough to pick up bits of old zinc and wood and soggy sheets of cardboard lying around the neighbourhood before thousands more came out of their forest holes looking for the same things.

A
Jonathan returns to Enugu to help the thousands of other people clean up the war-torn area.
B
Jonathan works on rebuilding his house early in the morning with the materials he finds on the ground.
C
Jonathan works on the other houses in the neighborhood before moving on to fix his own house later.
D
Jonathan returns to Enugu early to collect debris before others in the war-torn area do.
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Read the excerpt from "Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe.As soon as the pound notes were placed in his palm Jonathan simply closed it tight over them and buried fist and money inside his trouser pocket. He had to be extra careful because he had seen a man a couple of days earlier collapse into near-madness in an instant before that oceanic crowd because no sooner had he got his twenty pounds than some heartless ruffian picked it off him.

A
He decides to spend the money quickly so he does not lose it on the way back home.
B
He is cautious with the money because people got robbed more often after the war.
C
He decides to give his money away to the man who lost his because he feels bad for him.
D
He is proud of having more money and lets other people know about it on his way home.
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Read the excerpt from "Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe."OK. Time de go. Make you open dis window and bring the twenty pound. We go manage am like dat."

A
“Time for you to leave. Make this window open up or give me the money. We will manage it after.”
B
“It’s time to go. Open up the window and throw the money out. We will spend it all later.”
C
“Time to go. Open this window and put the money outside. We will spend it all later.”
D
“It’s time to go. Open this window and bring the money or else. We’re done playing around.”
4

Which line from the text best supports the theme "Hard work pays off in the end”?

A
When he dug it up again a year later after the surrender all it needed was a little palm-oil greasing.
B
At the end of a fortnight he had made a small fortune of one hundred and fifteen pounds.
C
That must have been the last thought in Jonathan’s mind before he was finally carried away himself.
D
He couldn’t have been gone for long, though, when he was violently awakened again.
5

Which of these is a theme statement?

A
The story had an impact on many readers.
B
A group of friends achieves success in the city.
C
Hard work and perseverance pays off in the end.
D
A woman and her children move to a new town.
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Why might an author include dialect in a story? Check all that apply.to allude to a character’s regional backgroundto describe what a particular setting looks liketo add to the cultural context of a story’s settingto allude to a character’s social backgroundto create a more genuine dialogue between characters

A
to allude to a character’s regional background
B
to describe what a particular setting looks like
C
to add to the cultural context of a story’s setting
D
to allude to a character’s social background
E
to create a more genuine dialogue between characters
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Which excerpt from the text best supports the theme "One must persevere through hard times”?

A
It wasn’t his disreputable rags, nor the toes peeping out of one blue and one brown canvas shoes, nor yet the two stars of his rank done obviously in a hurry in biro, that troubled Jonathan.
B
So Jonathan, suspecting he might be amenable to influence, rummaged in his raffia bag and produced the two pounds with which he had been going to buy firewood which his wife, Maria, retailed to camp officials for extra stock-fish and corn meal, and got his bicycle back.
C
This newest miracle was his little house in Ogui Overside. Indeed nothing puzzles God! Only two houses away a huge concrete edifice some wealthy contractor had put up just before the war was a mountain of rubble.
D
At the first sign of light as neighbours and others assembled to commiserate with him he was already strapping his five-gallon demijohn to his bicycle carrier and his wife, sweating in the open fire, was turning over akara balls in a wide clay bowl of boiling oil.

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