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Sample Blossoms of The Savannah Excerpts With Questions and Answers

Sample Blossoms of The Savannah Excerpts With Questions and Answers

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• 1.    Read the extract below and answer the questions that follow. “No Joseph,” she said in an infantile whimper. “I can’t bear that we can’t express the love that we have for one another because of some primitive culture. If by loving you, I offend the sensibilities of Nasila then let me offend and face the consequences of doing so!” “I also love you very much,” Joseph Parmuat responded finally.
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• 2.    Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow. “You are mad!” Resian screamed at him. You are stark mad if you think I am your wife. I can only be your wife over my dead body. Yes, you and my father can kill me and carry my dead body to your palatial home.” He was stunned by those harsh words. He winced as if he had been struck. Then already harsh line of his mouth tightened and he
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• 3.    Read the following excerpt and answer the questions that follow. They were silent as they climbed the hill on their way back from Nasila River to draw water. The water containers that they carried on their backs were now heavy. The straps that supported the containers pressed down their heads with a painful exhaustion. As they walked, each one of them allowed her mind to fleetingly roam the fancif
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• 4.    Read the following excerpt and answer the questions that follow. “Yes, Papaai,” Resian said apprehensively. “I am here. Taiyo tells me you are calling me?” “Yes, yes,” her father replied. “Please take a seat.” “Yes, Papaai,” Resian repeated as she sat on a chair far away from her father. “Come nearer…child,” her father said pleasantly. “Why do you sit a mile away? Come nearer.” Resian moved her
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• 5.    Read the following excerpt and answer the questions that follow. However, the notion that he was about to hand over his own daughter to a gangster continued to gnaw at the conscience of Ole Kaelo relentlessly. He felt guilty, especially when he recalled the atrocities that were known to have been committed by Oloisudori over the years. But another voice told him quietly that he was being foolish a
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• 6.    Read the following excerpt and answer the questions that follow. Her dream was rudely and violently interrupted by a thunderous bang and a loud roar of laughter. She woke up with a start, jumped up to her feet and stared at the door with wide panic-stricken eyes. For a moment she could not figure out her surroundings and called out the name of her sister Taiyo. She was terrified. The door flung...
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• 7.    Read the excerpt below and then answer the questions that follow. Once he had spoken those words, Ole Kaelo felt guilty. Ever since he began negotiating for the supply of the inputs, he had told no one of the deal. It had already cost him a fortune but if the deal went through, he thought apprehensively, it make all the difference. He now felt rueful. It was as though by speaking about it, he...
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• 8.    Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow. “Nothing is wrong with me,” Resian retorted furiously. And pointing at the living room, with her figure, she fiercely charged,” I have no quarrel with my father for whom, I have tremendous respect. It is the likes of Olarinkoi I am mad at, and all those other males who come here ordering us to do that or the other for them, simply...
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• 9.    Read the following excerpt and answer the questions that follow. At seven o’clock in the evening after the lights had been put on, and the traditional esuguroi drink had been served in generous measures, tongues loosened and hearts gladdened. Soon after, the party gathered momentum and voices rose. Within no time, one could hardly be heard over the hubbub of talk and laughter. And as the...
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• 10.    Read the following excerpts and answer the questions that follow Although Resian had a lot to complain and grumble about in life in their new environment, Taiyo found it tolerable. For instance, she gladly discovered that mornings in their new home began with a lively chatter of birds in the trees surrounding their house. That gave the home an atmosphere of tranquility and peace. However, one ...
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• 11.    Reads the excerpt below and then answer the questions that follows. When Minik began to speak, it was to Nabaru the enkabaani that she directed her discourse. Looking at her with charming warm eyes, Minik told her she thought she was her mother's age mate. She would not therefore begrudge her if she found out that, like her own mother, she supported the traditionally favored girl circumcision...
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• 12.    Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow. Yes, that is how Oloisudori defined success, Ole Kaelo thought bitterly. And he and many others define it in the same way. The archaic adage that exhorted the young and up-coming businessmen to take care of cents and let the shillings take care of themselves was regarded by the likes of Oloisudori to be untenable. Instant riches, just...
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• 13.    Read the following excerpt and answer the questions that follow. Suddenly the beam of the vehicle's light brought in to view a small mud plastered house with a rusty tin root around the house was a thorn fence and beside the house was a small wooden gate that was shut. The vehicle slowed down and stopped in front of the gate. The two men conversed in low tones for a few minutes in the front...
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• 14.    Read the following excerpt from the novel Blossoms of the Savannah and answer the questions that follow. "Oh God of all creation! Resian cried out bitterly and audibly as soon as the cruel ugly old woman left her, "What unending woes these are! Taba kilome sogo! What have I done to the gods to deserve this kind of punishment?” Then she recalled the teaching of the Bible, and especially where it...
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• 15.    Read the following excerpt from the novel Blossoms of the Savannah and answer the questions that follow. "Not really, my husband," she said ruefully, beating a hasty retreat. "Our culture is everything and it rules our lives." "Good," he said authoritatively. "Now listen, you must immediately start counselling the girls to understand their roles as potential wives of the men of Nasila. Prepare...
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• 16.    Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow. "However disreputable the man may be," her mother warned her, "be careful Resian. We don't know what connection the man has with your father and it would be catastrophic if your tongue would be the one to sever his relations with other men. Go to the living room and tell him I'm busy preparing lunch. Get him a cup of tea or something...
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• 17.    Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow. “You are wrong again,” Simeren said smiling broadly. “It is simply this, the young man whose name is Joseph Parmuat is a brother to your daughter. Parmuat, his father is from the clan of Ilmolelian of Iloorasha-kineji sub-clan, like ourselves. It is therefore, not only a great abomination if we allow their ignorance to desecrate Nasila
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• 18.    Read the following excerpt and answer the question that follow. Joseph Parmuat felt differently. When he went back to his house that evening after coaching the girls, something seemed to have changed dramatically. He recalled Taiyo's dazzling smile and the way her beauty filled him with enchantment. But the enchanting feeling seemed to have evaporated fast and in its place, his heart was now
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• 19.    Read the following excerpt from Blossoms of the Savannah and answer. "Yes they are creators of the labyrinth that the women continue to meander around," she said philosophically. "Even if I am reluctantly convinced that it was women and not men who initiated the obnoxious ritual who provoked the women to do so? The Ilarinkon who were purported to have pushed women into mutilating their sexuality
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• 20.    Read the following excerpt and answer the questions that follow. It did not take long before Taiyo and Resian had their chance to put into practice their plan. It was a little conspiratorial game they thought they were playing behind their parents' backs. The mission was intended to show Oloisudori that they were not on sale. And if he thought the prize of one of them was equivalent to whatever am
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• 21.    Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow. "Visitors?" Resian asked, surprised. "Yes, Oloisudori is coming for lunch," her father said evenly as if to show there was nothing special about him, 'I was going to ask Taiyo to stay and help your mother, but it seems as if you had impressed Oloisudori so much the last time he was here, that he particularly asked that you be here to
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• 22.    “Blossoms of the savannah is a novel about patriarchy.” Write an essay to validate this statement using the character Oloisudori and Olarinkoi.
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• 23.    Basing your argument on Blossoms of the Savannah, illustrate how modern women find it hard to fit in a society that embrace traditional cultural practices
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• 24.    Ole Kaelo treats Resian and Taiyo differently. He does this very evidently that the reader cannot fail to notice. Explain how and why he does this
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• 25.    Misunderstanding crops up whenever a family fails to share opinions and values. Basing your illustrations on Ole Kaelo's family, show the validity of this statement
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• 26.    Women suffer in male-dominated societies. Write an essay to validate the truth in this assertion basing your illustrations on Blossoms of the Savannah
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• 27.    Explain how male chauvinism plays out in chapter one in Blossoms of the Savannah
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• 28.    Give details of patureishi kind of love according chapter nine of the Novel Blossoms of the Savannah
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• 29.    Maa culture is not easily eroded by modernism. Explain five cultural practices that are still practiced by the Nasila people as portrayed in Blossoms of the Savannah
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• 30.    Write the role of Resian, Ole Kaelo and Oloisudori in the novel Blossoms of the Savannah?
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• 31.    Self-interest is a vice that whoever engages in it is bound to fail. Using Blossoms of The Savannah, write an essay to support the assertion
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