Correct Answer: A. six

Explanation

A Government Driver on His Retirement is a poem of thirty-three lines divided into six stanzas. Stanzas 1, 2, 4 and 5 have four lines each while Stanzas 3 and 6 have eight and nine lines respectively.

Correct Answer: D. a summary of the story

Correct Answer: C. is always light and humorous

Explanation

The conflicts in the play can be seen from different perspectives, ranging from the generational gap involving choice of profession to betrayal of trust and domestic misunderstanding.

One of the major conflicts in the play is the generational gap involving choice of profession. James Ofosu believes it is his parental responsibility to choose a career for his children and having chosen for the first two sons, he considers Aaron and Maanan's refusal to accept his choice as an act of disobedience. This conflict results in the strainec relationship between him and the two children. It takes Awere's success in painting and Lawyer Bonu's betrayal of trus:. for James to accept the children's choices. .

There is also domestic conflict which is more pronounced between Mrs. Hannah Ofosu and Aunt Fosuwa tha between James and his wife. On the one hand, while aunt Fosuwa disputes over who has responsibility over the family_ Hannah and James are at logger-heads over his friendship with Lawyer Bonu. Again, it takes Lawyer Bonu's betrayal or trust to resolve this conflict.

Of the three major conflicts, that between Lawyer Bonu and James, though much delayed, is never resolved. as Lawyer Bonu's betrayal of trust to establish this conflict.

Explanation

Aloho is the protagonist of the play. She is a young graduate who has migrated from her village to the city in search of a job and ends up being victimized. She eventually loses her life during the process of child birth.

Aloho is a victim. She finds herself unable to secure a job several years after graduating from the university with a decent degree in Mass Communication - Second Class Upper. It is her desperation to secure a job to take care of herself, her mother and her siblings that drivers her to the city and into the hands of her exploiters. Significantly, she is ushered into a life of vice by her university friend, Ochuole.

The main predator is Chief Haladu Ade-Amaka, Minister of External Relations. His offer of a job to Aloho as a protocol officer is merely a front. He exploits her both as a drug trafficker, and, as a sexual partner, he lures the unsuspecting girl into a false sense of security. She is thus not fully aware of what she is getting into when she is instructed to take a package to America. She does have some misgivigs but she is instructed to acquiescence by the Chief: "Remember, I don't tolerate failures, but I have a way I reward hard work and success, so be careful,"he tells her.

On both fronts, she suffers. Aloho is caught while trafficking drugs and spends some time in detention. This leaves her emaciated and traumatised. When she is released she is a different person altogether, having lost faith in both man and God. As she says," I have gone beyond understanding Christian doctrine." In the meantime, Chief has sexually exploiting her. This results in pregnancy which ultimately claims her life. Throughout her life, therefore, Aloho appears to have been a victim.

Aloho, however, does bear some responsibility for her predicatment. she does not listen to the sensible advice of her friend, Ogeyi, who warns her not to associate with the morally lax Ochuole, in the first place. When she is offered a job in the Ministry of External Relations, Ogeyi tries, without success, to dissuade her from taking up the offer. Ogeyi is also persistent in her warning to Aloho not to travel to America on an errand for the Chief, but she will not listen. Aloho also turns a deaf ear to Ogeyi's protestations when she makes up her mind to terminate the pregnancy. In the end, she loses her life.

In spite of Aloho's stubbornness, part of the responsibility for her predicament should rest on the exploiters: Chief Ade-Amaka, Ochuole and Madam Hoha.

Points to note:

(a) Aloho's undergraduate's years of relationship with her friends Ogeyi and Ochuole.

(b) Aloho's desperation for a job after graduation to take care of herself and family.

(c) Aloho's entanglement by Ochuole, who introduces her to Chief Haladu Ade-Amaka, her boss.

(d) Chief Haladu Ade-Amaka's exploitation for sex and illicit business.

(e) Aloho's arrest and detention release and pregnancy.

(f) Aloho's attermpt to abort and death.

Correct Answer: C. although he is a cultural outsider in Venice, his military skills are valuable to the State

Correct Answer: D. hunters

Correct Answer: D. Iambic

Explanation

The meter of a poem just describes the pattern (if there is one) of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line

Explanation

Walter, as a man, should have been head of the Younger family. Yet, it is Mama who has been at the helm of affairs from the outset. Not satisfied with his station in life, Walter is preoccupied with his dream of making it big through the investment of money that is not his own. He dreams constantly of becoming a self-made man with the backing of his wife, while complaining that no one understands him. Several times he has proved a disappointment to Mama.

Uncaring about what goes on around him, Walter gets a good opportunity of showing himself as the worthy man his mother expects his mother expects him to be when his wife decides to have an abortion. Typically, he is not even aware of his wife's condition until Mama tells him. Mama urges him to take the bull by the horns and speak firmly to his wife and talk her out of her decision. He falters in this and, bitterly disappointed, Mama calls him a a disgrace to your father's memory.

When George Murchison calls to take Beneatha out, Walter is inexplicably rude to the young man. He will not leave them alone despite Ruth's many attempts to have him behave civilly. George aptly describes him as all whacked up with bitterness. On his part, Walter goes on and on about his vision and his being little understood. Unable to see the wisdom in Mama's buying the house with the insurance money, Walter becomes bitter. He is rude at home and even absents himself from work. Hurt because his mother will not approve his liquor business intentions, he gets another chance to prove worthy as head of family like you supposed to be, when Mama entrusts the remainder of the insurance money to him with specific instructions. Walter speedily goes and hands all of it over to Willy Harris who takes off with the money.

The final opportunity to become the man he should be comes when he rejects Lindner's offer to buy Mama's new home. Bobo's report that Willy has bolted with the money shows that the family has no more of the precious insurance money left. This makes the prospects of moving into 406 Clybourne Street in the white neighbourhood of Clybourne Park particularly bleak and precarious.

The man in Walter emerges, however, and he invites Lindner over. Under a show of accepting the whiteman's offer to buy out the family, and contrary to the family's fears, he rejects the offer. He tells Lindner. We have decided to move into our house ... don't want your money. All this while, Mama has been showing her approval, as though she were in church with her head nodding the amen yes.

Thus, from a spineless dreamer and loafer, Walter transforms into a responsible head of the sixth generation Younger family. Henceforth, things look secure in his hands.

Correct Answer: A. violence on stage