Correct Answer: D. a desire

Correct Answer: B. Li's tragic end

Explanation

What is Max's attitude towards racial relations, in the novel? Max is a legal practitioner of repute. He is clearly dis-satisfied with American society. He does not favour the subjugation of minority groups in the Union. This attitude may explain his joining the communist Party and the Labour Defenders.

Whether Max's joining the communist Party is a means of personal escape or an avenue for political achieve-ment, Max takes exception to the racial relations. Max knows all about the black situation. As he points out to Bigger in prison, the whole black race, including other minorities, and its structures are kept together and alive only by faith. Losing that adhesive causes the collaspse of any ideals that the blacks. This is why Max urges Bigger, even at the point when Bigger is headed for the electric chair, to be staunch in his belief in him-self. For Max, it is unacceptable to regard any human being as second rate or deny him opportunities. Segregation is wrong; condescension is not constructive.

Max's pointed interrogation of Mr. Dalton is very reveal-ing. The millionaire philanthropist toes the line of the system. In his grand offers to and patronage of blacks, Mr. Dalton appears to be eager to be seen as doing good though not doing desirable good. Max does not accept that Mr. Dalton should be allow to perpetrate the wrongs of the system simply because, in what Bigger has done, a grave harm has been done to two people who've helped Negroes more than anyone else. He insisted that it critical to go to the root of the matter of the black-white dichotomy. In sending a dozen pingpong tables to the south side Boys' Club, Mr Dalton is only scratching the surface of the problem. Max asserts that pingpong will not keep men from murdering.

Max also rejects Mr. Dalton's attitude towards his own philanthropy. When he emplos\ys the likes of Bigger, he send them to school. But he does not employ the edu-cated blacks he creates. Mr Dalton is not shifting from the path beaten by the system. The system does not permit him and he cannot make his Negro tenants pay a fair rent. Seeing the Bigger saga as one throb of the heratbeat of the minority groups, Max insists that killling this boy isn't going to help us any. Nobody is asking Mr. Dalton to atone for suffering that is not his creation. But from Max's point view, what Mr. Dalton is doing doesn't help. Max considers the conventional treatment of the black man as inconsistent with a good man's conscience and he cannot support those who uphold the system.

Points to note

(a) Max's stance on racial relations

(b) Max's defence of Bigger

(c) Max's indictment of the whites

(d) Max's final submission on Bigger

Correct Answer: D. always embodies a quality

Correct Answer: B. motif

Explanation

The supernatural looms large over the people of Owu and keeps the entire Kingdom under its influence. It is the combined acts of the gods and the blessing of Edumare, the Supreme God of the Yorubas that culminate in building and making Owu the safest of all Yoruba cities. But it is also the action or inaction of the same gods that leaves the same city in ruins. This is attested to by no less a goddess than Lawumi, the ancestral Queen mother and goddess of the Owus during her conversation with Anlugbua after the fall of the kingdom.

The fall of Owu does not come as a surprise to the gods, especially, Lawumi. The fall is even supernaturally contrived, aided and abetted. It is in fact the logical and deserved consequence of Owu's condemnable acts of omission or commission.

One such act is the Owu people's blatant show of arrogance not only to Lawumi but also to the Ile Ife, the cradle of the Yorubas. Drunk with prosperity the Owus throw caution to the wind and sack Apomu, Ife's commercial satellite town, and send people away into slavery. By so doing they break the sacred law of Sango, the Yoruba god of thunder, that no Yoruba man shall sell his compatriot into slavery. For this, Owu must be punished by the gods and it is with the consuming fire power of the Allied Forces. The pervasive influence of the supernatural is also seen in the unfailingly gloomy prediction of the Oracle. Through the priest, the Oracle warns that prince Dejumo must be killed in his cradle or else he will ultimately bring gloom and doom to the Kingdom. However, Erelu, the mother, ignores the warning and spares the life of the son. The ill-fated prince grows up and abducts lyunloye after the sack of Apomu. The aggrieved husband, an artist-turned-soldier, leads the Allied Forces to invade Owu and deStroy it even beyond Lawumi's wildest imagination.

But the supernatural influence is not over yet because the destruction of Owu does not leave Lawumi and even Ogun

Correct Answer: B. Theseus

Explanation

The character that speaks before Hippolyta is Theseus. In the play, Theseus and Hippolyta are often together and engage in conversation about the events happening around them.

Correct Answer: B. admires speaker M

Correct Answer: C. a ballad

Explanation

Hlestakov and the Mayor are two major characters in the play. They exhibit weaknesses which contribute to the development of the plot

Both of them are public servants. While Hlestakov is a junior officer in Peterburg, the Mayor is the political and administrative head of one of the districts in Russia.

While the Mayor seems to have risen to the pinnacle of his profession, Hlestakov is stuck in the mud, prompting his father to invite him for questioning in Saratov.

Both of them are corrupt and exploitative. The Mayor takes advantage of his position to embezzle public funds and extort money from the traders and merchants. He violates the rights of the commoners in conscripting the locksmith flogging the sergeant's wife. Hlestakov equally takes advantage of the general ignorance of his true identity to extort reasonable sums of money from whoever comes his way.

Hiestakov is a bachelor with no visible family responsibility. His reckless and extravagant life style leads to Denury on his journey to Saratov. The Mayor, on the other hand, is a family man. He collects bribes to augment the -ante he receives and holds his family together. -Hestakov is a dupe in the game of deception while the Mayor is duped.

Hlestakov has the good fortune of being able to escape with his loot while the unfortunate Mayor has no