Correct Answer: A. a melodrama

Correct Answer: A. farce

Explanation

Obi Umunna is an important chief. He is wealthy and very traditional. He has no male child and so lacks natural heir. This is a harsh reality that he must tackle. Luckily the system of inheritance provides an outlet for him - daughter, Ona. He applies the rules rigidly.

Ona is Obi Umunna's daughter. She is of rare beauty and also of unparalleled strong will, brought up to love ar adore her father. She is in love with Agbadi but cannot marry him. She can only remain his lover (mistress) by a decree of her father. Ona, despite her strength of character and firm ego is ruled by her father's decisions in the one crucial pa of her life - marriage. She cannot marry the man of her desire. As the permitted mistress of her lover, she may bee children by him, but any male child should belong to her father.

This arrangement is exasperating for Agbadi. He does complain bitterly and rebukes Obi Umunna, saying the his inability to produce an heir himself is not the making of his daughter, Ona. In a sense, one may say that Agbadi confrontation with Obi Umunna over the issue is an indictment of a system that deprives people of their offspring mere! because others are unable to have their own children.

When Ona becomes pregnant, she reduces the pressure from Agbadi over the decree and settles the matter b resolving that if she has a daughter it will belong to Agbadi.

Correct Answer: A. catharsis

Correct Answer: B. make Yaremi remarry

Correct Answer: D. soliloquy

Correct Answer: C. actors

Explanation

Wara is the main female character in the play. She is portrayed as attractive and a seductive dancer. We meet her early in the play when Kindo attempts to drag her into the sacred cave for sex and she resists the attempt. But for her, Soko would have come upon them in the cave. Both could have been charged with sacrilege. That they were not found out at this point advances the plot. As Kindo's girlfriend, Wara is naïve about the intrigues of the King's court. While Kindo jealously protects her, she is, at the same time, exposed to the machinations of Maligu and Soko in their attempt to get at Kindo. The plot is further complicated when Whitehead appears, lusts after her and attempts to rape her after Maligu, Parker and Soko abduct her. She beats off Whitehead's charge on her and runs away. Her escape from Whitehead, later helped by Soko, averts an early and inevitable confrontation between Whitehead and Kindo. Wara also plays the role of the sacrificial lamb that never was. Though targeted for sacrifice by Soko and Maligu because she qualifies as a stranger and, presumably, a virgin, she lives.

The plot unravels when Kindo asserts that Ware is not a virgin and the body on the sacrificial stone is not Ware's but Parker's whom he has killed. Kindo also kills Whitehead who has attempted to mar his relationship with Wara, as well as destroy Mando land's customary practices. Wara, in the end, proves that people can manipulate custom for their own interests by revealing to Kindo that she is not a stranger in Mando land,

Points to note:

(1) Ware's attractive personality, her skill as a seductive dancer and her relationship with Kindo.

(2) The cave scene and her presence of mind which enables her to extricate herself from the charge of committing sacrilege.

(3) Whitehead's lechery and her escape from being raped, which delays and complicates the play's denouement.

(4) Her being offered as a sacrificial lamb that never was, being viewed as a stranger, a virgin and Kindo's woman.

(5) Her proof that she's an indigence of Mando land, which shows how people attempt to exploit custom for selfish interests.

Correct Answer: C. noble character with hubris

Explanation

Right from the beginning of the novel, we are introduced to a four year old boy who does not intend to maintain status quo — obedience to parental and social rule. Richard has a peculiar childhood full of all sorts of experience t a boy of his age should not have been exposed to. He admits that it is an early life without a father around.

This is because his father deserts his family and runs off with another woman. In order to make ends meet, his mother sei him to live with one relation or the other. At one time Richard is taken to an orphanage. All these afford Richard opportunity to come to term with the harsh realities of racial hatred and mistrust. Richard now gets to understand that the average Black American is faced with the struggle to find his footing i society full of hatred for his type. Thus Richard determines to strive against all odds in order to assert his human wo He rejects the advice of a friend, Griggs, to pretend before any white man. He stubbornly rejects the speech prepared him by the Principal at a Speech Day Ceremony. He becomes all the more ready to ready to improve his lot. These readings including Bluebeard and his Se, Wives deepen Richard's view of life and the world around him.

Through the national dailies, he gets to look for I-Mencken's works, especially 'Prejudices'. This books opens Richard's eyes to racial discrimination and prejudices gives him a "new way of feeling and thinking". As a result, these books help to shape his attitude to life. He now si that after all, his thoughts and fears concerning life are as real as life itself. The results of reading such books r encourage him to fight white codes of superiority complex. The more he reads, the more he discovers something 'terribly important' in what goes on around him until he finally makes up his mind to challenge authorities.

This explains his fights with Aunt Addle, the street gangsters and rejection of a gift of a dollar from a white man. How can he, a black boy take lightly all forces against his race? All these factors make Richard a peculiar personality full of intelligence, adventure and sharp imagination i "barren" culture.