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Read the excerpt from "Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe."Ah, missisi de cry again. No need for dat. We done talk say we na good tief."

A
“Ah, I hear you crying again. You shouldn’t do that. We will make the thieves go away.”
B
“Ah, your wife is crying again. There is no need for that. We said we were good thieves.”
C
“Ah, your kids are crying again. There is no need for that. We will make the thieves go away.”
D
“Ah, your wife is crying again. We will call the other thieves over here if she doesn’t stop.”
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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.”
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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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Read the excerpt from "Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe.He had come out of the war with five inestimable blessings—his head, his wife Maria’s head and the heads of three out of their four children. As a bonus he also had his old bicycle—a miracle too but naturally not to be compared to the safety of five human heads.

A
A family has survived the war intact.
B
Luck will guide you to a happy ending.
C
A bicycle should be considered a miracle.
D
Family is the most important thing in life.
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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.
6

An informal variation on language is called

A
character.
B
setting.
C
theme.
D
dialect.
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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
8

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.
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Which details should you look for in determining the setting of a story? Check all that apply.the story’s time periodwhere the author livesthe characters’ environmenthow long the story iswhere the story takes place

A
the story’s time period
B
where the author lives
C
the characters’ environment
D
how long the story is
E
where the story takes place
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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
Money should be hidden in one’s pocket.
B
Sometimes a blessing can be a burden.
C
A thief stole a man’s much-needed money.
D
Crowds of people can never be trusted.

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