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(a) A trickster narrative . The girl is tricked by the old woman to marry her deformed son.
(b)
(i) If the old woman had allowed her son free movement, he would have been in a better position to get himself a wife of his own choice who would have accepted him the way he was.
or
(ii). I the boy had courted the girl himself, she would have appreciated him despite his deformities
and would never ever have thought of the action that she finally took.
(c)
(i) Payment of bride price.
The mother of the boy said that he had gone to work in far off lands so that the could earn something to be able to pay bride price . Boys were found wives by their parents /marriage
The boy tells his mother to get him a wife e now that he has grown up.
(ii) Farming. .The old woman and the girl went to weed.
(D) (i) A source of information of the girl who learns the whereabouts of the boy from it
(ii) She discovers the reason why the boy is hidden in a drum from this song. He is a hunchback.
(E) Character trait of the girl:
(i) Foolish / naïve: she accept the old woman’s excuses.
Patient / understanding: she patiently waits to meet the young man she is expected to marry and initially accepts the boy’s return for the injustice done to her by the old woman.
(ii) The old woman: Foolish / simpleton. She is foolish to imagine that the girl will agree to be married by his son
d) We should be proud of whatever we own however good or bad.
The old woman hid her son in a drum and paid dearly for deceiving the girl who killed him. The girl finally escaped.
F. Dialogue between the old woman and the girl,
Rhetorical questions – so this is my husband to be?
A hunch buck confined to a drum?
g(i) We should be kind /love our deformed relatives. The old woman should have allowed him to look for a girl himself. The boy got killed and the girl escaped .
(ii) We should be proud of whatever we own however good or bad.
The old woman hid her son in a drum and paid dearly for deceiving the girl who killed him. The girl finally escaped.we should be kind /love our deformed relatives. The old woman should allow him to look for a girl himself. The boy got killed and the girl escaped
marto answered the question on September 11, 2019 at 11:39
- Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. (Solved)
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Krogstad: No matter about that.
Nora: What do you want of me?
Krogstad: An explanation of something.
Nora: Make haste them. What is it?
Krogstad: You know, I suppose, that I have got my dismissal.
Nora: I couldn't prevent it, Mr. Krogstad. I fought as hard as I could on your side, but it was no good.
Krogstad: Does your husband love you so little, then? He knows what I can expose you to, and yet ventures-
Nora: How can you suppose that he has any knowledge of the sort?
Krogstad: I didn't suppose so at all. It would not be the least like our dear Torvald
Helmer to show so much courage-
Nora: Mr. Krogstad, a little respect for my husband, please.
Krogstad: Certainly — all the respect he deserves, but since you have kept the matter so carefully to yourself. I make bold to suppose that you have a little clearer idea, than you had yesterday, of what it actually is that you have done?
Nora: More than you could ever teach me.
Krogstad: Yes, such a bad lawyer as I am.
Nora: What is it you want of me?
Krogstad: only to see how you were, Mrs Helmer, 1 have been thinking about you all day long. A mere cashier, a quill driver, a man like me - even he has a little of what is called feeling, you know.
Nora: Show it, then; think of my little children.
Krogstad: Have you and your husband thought of mine? But never mind about that. I only wanted to tell you that you need not take this matter too seriously. In the first place there will be no accusation made on my part.
Nora: No, of course not; I was sure of that.
Krogstad: The whole thing can be arranged amicably; there is no reason why anyone should know anything about it. It will remain a secret between us three.
Nora: My husband must never get to know anything about it.
Krogstad: How will you be able to prevent it? Am I to understand that you can pay the balance that is owing?
Nora: No, not just at present.
Krogstad: Or perhaps that you have some expedient for raising the money soon?
Nora: No expedient that I mean to make use of.
Krogstad: Well, in any case, it would have been of no use to you. Now if you stood there with ever so much money in your hand, I would never part with your bond.
Questions
a)Place this excerpt in its immediate context
b)What is Krogstad's attitude towards Helmer? Explain.
c)"You have some expedient for raising the money soon". Does Nora have an idea on how to raise the money? Explain
d)"Yes, such a bad lawyer as I am". What is the tone of this statement?
e)"Does your husband love you so little then?" How does Helmer's behavior later in the play bear out Krogstad' statement?
f) Describe Krogstad’s character as revealed in this excerpt
g) Identify and explain the use of irony in this excerpt.
h)A mere cashier, a quill driver a man like me even he has a little of what is called feelings you know. (Rewrite beginning: Even .....)
Date posted: September 11, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the passage below and then answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the passage below and then answer the questions that follow.
A lot of students think that learning is only in class. If students use two extra steps, most students will not forget what they learned in class. To achieve effective learning, students need to follow two extra steps in the three strategic learning processes.
The key to success is by following these three strategies. Review is essential to student success. Unless content is reviewed by students shortly after it is learned, it will soon be forgotten. To avoid forgetting what you learned, it is recommended to review daily.
It is also recommended to reduce large volumes of notes into point form and to paraphrase what you have learned. Other helpful tips include creating concept maps and diagrams; creating fact, concept or vocabulary cards and using visualization to better connect to what you learned. These are all important tools to helping students better understand and memorize lesson content.
The key to achieving academic success cannot be directly correlated to one specific area. Rather it requires students to be overall rounded in many different aspects. This includes attending class regularly to keep pace with the class. Falling behind in studies or homework can be detrimental to academic success and can induce stress onto students. Participating in class activities and discussions are also vital parts of learning and applying concepts learned. On the other hand, taking good, concise notes will always help in the long run when reviewing for tests and exams. To sum it all up, strategic learning is the password for many academic achievements. Being exposed to knowledge is the first step in the journey, the fact that young scholars can learn and be a part of history is a phenomenal step in furthering their search to success. Reviewing notes, in the way the young individual wishes, by him/herself, or with a good friend, this will help him/her to understand what has been learned in a way he/she understands. Lastly practice is a great way to memorise what has been learned, when practice achieves its full potential, the individual won’t only be entitled for a good mark, but also a way to view, under and think of things. Those three attributes will help scholars become more successful, but it’s important to one as it is to the other, and each and every person should find the learning strategies effectual for him/herself, and in extremely exceptional occasions even invent or innovate new strategies.
Questions
(a) What does the writer faults in the students thinking according to the first paragraph?
(b) Explain the three strategies that are key to success.
(c) Unless content is reviewed by students shortly after it is learned, it will soon be forgotten
(d) The key to achieving academic success cannot be directly correlated to one specific area..
(e) Discuss the tone of the passage.
(f) How, according to the passage, does practice help memorize what has been learned?
(g) Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases are used in the passage.
Detrimental ........................
Correlated ........................
Effectual .......................
Exceptional ............................
Date posted: September 11, 2019. Answers (1)
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Though now independent, African countries still face many challenges. Using illustrations from Benjamin Branoff’s Window Seat, write a...(Solved)
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- Read the excerpt below and then answer the questions that follow. (Solved)
Read the excerpt below and then answer the questions that follow.
Helmer: Miserable creature – what have you done?
Nora: Let me go. You shall not suffer for my sake. You shall not take it upon yourself.
Helmer: No tragic airs, please.(Locks the hall door.) Here you shall stay and give me an explanation. Do you understand what you have done? Answer me! Do you understand what you have done?
Nora: (Looks steadily at him and says with a growing look of coldness in her face) Yes, now I am beginning to understand thoroughly.
Helmer: (walking about the room) What a horrible awakening! All these eight years- she who was my joy and pride- a hypocrite, a liar – worse, worse – a criminal! The unutterable ugliness of it all! – For shame! For shame! (NORA is silent and looks steadily at him. He stops in front of her.) I ought to have suspected that something of the sort would happen. I ought to have foreseen it. All your father’s want of principle – be silent! - all your father’s want of principle has come out in you. No religion, no morality, no sense of duty -. How I am punished for having winked at what he did! I did it for your sake, and this is how you repay me.
Nora: Yes, that’s just it.
Helmer: Now you have destroyed all my happiness. You have ruined all my future. It is horrible to think of! I am in the power of an unscrupulous man; he can do what he likes with me, ask anything he likes of me, give me any orders he please - I dare not refuse. And I must sink to such miserable depths because of a thoughtless woman!
Nora: When I am out of the way, you will be free.
a) Explain what has happened immediately before this excerpt
b) What does Nora mean by saying, "You shall not suffer for my sake."? Explain.
c) How is Helmer’s attitude towards Nora in this extract different from earlier in the book? Explain.
d) What thematic concern is addressed in this excerpt?
e) "I am in the power of an unscrupulous man; he can do what he likes with me, ask anything he likes of me, give me any orders he pleases - I dare not refuse." Who is Helmer talking about and why does he make such comments about the person?
f) Discuss any style evident in the excerpt.
g) Identify and illustrate the prevalent mood in the excerpt
h) "Here you shall stay and give me an explanation."Rewrite beginning: You....
i) "When I am out of the way, you will be free." Give two meanings of Nora’s words from the rest of the play
j) Explain the meaning of the following expressions as used in the extract.
i. Take it upon yourself....................
ii. No tragic airs.................
iii. Your father’s want of principle ...................
iv. Unscrupulous man .....................
Date posted: September 11, 2019. Answers (1)
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Using examples from the novel, write an essay in support of this statement.
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- MEMORIES WE LOST AND OTHER STORIES.
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- Read the following excerpt and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the following excerpt and answer the questions that follow.
A DOLL’S HOUSE
Nora: But it was absolutely necessary that he should not know! My goodness cant you
Understand that? It was necessary he should have no idea what a dangerous condition he
Was in. It was to me that the doctors came and said that his life was in danger, and that the
only thing to save him was to live in the south. Do you suppose I didn’t try, first of all, to get
what I wanted as if it were for myself? I told him how much I should love to travel abroad
like other young wives; I tried tears and entreaties with him; I told him that he ought to
remember the condition I was in, and that he ought to be kind and indulgent to me ; I even
hinted that he might raise a loan. That nearly made him angry , Christine. He said I was
thoughtless, and that it was his duty as my husband not to indulge me in my whims and
caprices- as I believe he called them. Verywell, I thought you must be saved-and that was
how I came to devise a way out of difficulty-
Mrs. Linde: And did your husband never get to know from your father that the money had come
from him?
Nora:No, never. Papa died just at that time. I had meant to let him into the secret and beg him
never to reveal it. But he was so ill then –alas, there was never was any need to tell him.
Mrs. Linde : Good heavens, no! How could you think so? A man who has such strong opinion about
these things! And besides how painful and humiliating it would be for Torvald, with his
manly independence, to know that he owed me anything! It would upset our mutual
relations altogether; our beautiful happy home would no longer be what it is now
Mrs. LInde: Do you mean never to tell about it?
Nora:(meditatively and with a half-smile) Yes –someday perhaps, after many years, when I am no
longer as nice-looking as I am now. Don’t laugh at me! I mean, of course, when Torvald is no
longer as devoted to me as he is now; when my dancing and dressing –up and reciting have
paled on him; then it may be a good thing to have something in reserve-(breaking off)What
nonsense! That time will never come. Now what do you think of my greatest secret, Christine?
Do you still think I am of no use? I can tell you , too, that this affair has caused me a lot of
worry. It has been by no means easy for me to meet my engagements punctually. I may tell you
that there is something that is called in business, quarterly interest and another thing called
payment in installments and it is always so dreadfully difficult to manage them. I have not been
able to put a side much from housekeeping money for Torvald must have a good table. I could not
let my children be shabbily dressed; I have felt obliged to use up all he gave me for them, the sweet little darlings.
Questions
1. Briefly describe what happens before the events in this extract.
2. State and explain any two aspects of style used in this extract
3. How is Mrs. Linde depicted in this extract?
4. What is the attitude of Mrs. Linde towards Nora? Explain
5. Explain how the 'imprudence' of Nora later complicates the events of the play.
6. Who is a shadow character in a play? In this extract identify one shadow character. What is his\her significance in the play
7. Add a question tag:
A wife cannot borrow money without her husband’s consent
8. Explain the meaning of the following words.
i) Indulgent
ii) Thoughtless
iii) Caprices
iv) Devoted
Date posted: September 11, 2019. Answers (1)
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Date posted: September 11, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the excerpt below and answer questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the excerpt below and answer questions that follow.
Mrs. Linde: Nora-it was Krogstad who lent you the money!
Nora: Yes, and now Torvald will know all about it.
Mrs. Linde: Believe me, Nora, that’s the best thing for both of you.
Nora: You don’t know all. I forged a name.
Mrs. Linde: Good heavens-!
Nora: I only want to say this to you, Christine- you must be my witness.
Mrs. Linde: Your witness? What do you mean? What am I to -?
Nora: If I should go out of my mind-and it might easily happenMrs. Linde: Nora!
Mrs. Linde: Nora! Nora! You are quite out of your mind.
Nora: And if it should happen that there were someone who wanted to take all the responsibility,
all the blame, you understandMrs. Linde: Yes, yes- but how can you suppose-?
Nora: Then you must be my witness, that it is not true, Christine. I am not out of my mind at all; I
am in my right senses now, and I tell you no one else has known anything about it; I and I alone,
did the whole thing. Remember that.
Mrs. Linde: I will, indeed. But o don’t understand all this.
Nora: Or if anything else should happen to me- anything, for instance, that might prevent my being here-
Questions
i) Briefly explain what has happened before this extract.
ii) 'Nora- it was Krogstad who lent you the money!' Explain the tone in Christine’s
words.
iii) 'Believe me Nora, that’s the best thing for both of you.' From later in the play which reason does Mrs. Linde give to support what she says now?
v) Discuss one character trait of Nora evident in this extract.
v) Discuss one social theme raised in this extract.
vi) 'Nora! Nora! You are quite out of your mind.' Add a question tag.
vii) Discuss one aspect of style in this extract.
viii)Nora says that a wonderful thing is going to happen. From the rest of the play, explain what she means by that.
ix)Explain the meaning of the following phrases as used in the extract.
a) Go out of mind
b) I forged a name
c) You will be my witness
Date posted: September 3, 2019. Answers (1)
- John Steinbeck, The Pearl
Write an essay to show the truth of the saying ‘What you see is not always what you get’.
Use illustrations from John...(Solved)
John Steinbeck, The Pearl
Write an essay to show the truth of the saying ‘What you see is not always what you get’.
Use illustrations from John Steinbeck’s ‘The Pearl’
Date posted: August 27, 2019. Answers (1)