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Historical and Cultural Context in “Civil Peace” Answers

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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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Which sentence from "Civil Peace” contains dialect?

A
“Who is knocking?” he asked then, his voice parched and trembling.
B
“I am a poor man. Everything I had went with this war.”
C
“Lookia my frien, no be play we come play for your house.”
D
“Or is it greater than other things that went with the war?”
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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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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.
5

An informal variation on language is called

A
character.
B
setting.
C
theme.
D
dialect.
6

A message that a text conveys about a topic is called a

A
dialect.
B
setting.
C
theme.
D
detail.
7

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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Read the excerpt from "Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe."Na tief-man and him people," came the cool reply. "Make you hopen de door."

A
“The thief and his people,” came the cool reply. “Open the door.”
B
“The thief’s man and his friends,” came the cool reply. “He opened the door.”
C
“The thief and his people,” came the cool reply. “They opened the door.”
D
“The thief’s friends,” came the cool reply. “We opened the door.”
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Which details should you look for in determining the setting of a story? Check all that apply.

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.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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