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EXCERPT 1
Red the excerpt below then answer the questions that follow

The door to the bathroom opened. Fiona emerged and started walking but
stopped. Her eyes had not adjusted to the darkness in the living room. “Where
are you?” she asked.

“Over here” he said. “I have taken a couch in the living room. Go take the bed in
the bedroom.”

“You’re acting as if you might have a wife,” she said. “Do you?” “No, she
divorced me last year.”

“Did she?”

“Yes”

“Let’s see now. You studied in America at a marriageable age.”

“Let me guess.” “Go ahead.” “She is American.”

“Who? Pamela?”

“Yes it is. And, yes, she is American. Enough about me now. Let’s turn to you.
Shouldn’t your name still be Fiona McKenzie?”

“Who told you it might have changed?” She started walking to the bedroom. Her
eyes had adjusted to the only light.
“Why was the Liberian Mauler calling you Joy instead?” “It’s local slang for
streetwalker.”

“He was calling you a streetwalker?”

“Yes, do you want me to draw a picture for you? Where are you from anyway?
Mars?” “No, Nigeria. Married?”

“Me?”

The phone rang. He rose and answered the landline by the couch. When he
ended the call, his mood had darkened.

“What’s the matter?” she asked him. “You seem upset all of a sudden. Who was
on the phone?”
“One Chineke Chiamaka,” he said. “This man was claiming I chided him for
being drunk, when all he had was

a “Pepsi”. He wriggled in his improvised bed to protest his innocence against

that claim. “It beats me how he got my suite phone number in the first place,” he
added. “Anyway, I did not chide him. Why do people like to

tell lies?”

QUESTIONS

i. What happens immediately before this excerpt? 4 marks

ii. Discuss two character traits of Abiola and one of Fiona McKenzie as brought
out in the excerpt. 6 marks

iii. Why do people like telling lies? (Write in reported speech) 1 mark

iv. a. The phone rang. Add a question tag 1 mark

b. No, she divorced me last year. (Rewrite in the passive)

v. Highlight two themes raised in the excerpt. 4 marks

vi. Identify and illustrate two features of style used in the excerpt. 4 marks

vii. Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the excerpt. 3 marks
a. Streetwalker

b. Wriggled

c. Chided

Answers
i. What happens immediately before this excerpt? 4 marks

Abiola and Chiamaka had just met in Seamount hotel

They introduce themselves

ii. Discuss two character traits of Abiola and one of Fiona McKenzie as
brought out in the excerpt. 6 marks

Abiola

ü Open/ honest-“No, she divorced me last year.”

ü Keen- “Why was the Liberian Mauler calling you Joy instead?”

ü Respectful- . “I have taken a couch in the living room. Go take the bed in the
bedroom.”

ü Sacrificial- he sacrifices the bedroom for Fiona McKenzie- “I have taken a

couch in the living room. Go take the bed in the bedroom.”

ü Inquisitive- identify all the instances where Abiola asks a lot of questions

(Plus any other relevant answer/trait and illustration) Fiona McKenzie

Inquisitive- “You’re acting as if you might have a wife,” she said. “Do
you?”“Did

she?”

Sarcastic-“Yes, do you want me to draw a picture for you? Where are you from

anyway? Mars?”

iii. Why do people like telling lies? (Report) 1 mark

Abiola wondered why people like telling lies

iv. a. The phone rang. Add a question tag 1 mark

The phone rang, didn’t it

b. No, she divorced me last year. (Rewrite in the passive) 1 mark

I was divorced the previous year.

v. Highlight two themes raised in the excerpt 4 marks

Sacrifice- . “I have taken

a couch in the living room. Go take the bed in the bedroom.” Abiola sacrifices his

pleasures of sleeping in the bedroom for Fiona McKenzie

Honesty- Abiola admits he had a wife and that she divorced him last year.

vi. Identify and illustrate two features of style used in the excerpt 4 marks

Direct Address-“Let’s see now. You studied in America at a marriageable

age.”“Let me

guess.” “Go ahead.” “She is American.”

“Who? Pamela?” (The dialogue must be written as it is in the excerpt)

Rhetorical questions- “Why do people like telling lies?”

Sarcasm- “Yes, do you want me to draw a picture for you? Where are you from
anyway?

Mars?”

vii. Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the excerpt 3 marks

a. Streetwalker-prostitute

b. Wriggled-moved

c. Chided-reproached angrily
EXCERPT 2
Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow. (20 marks)

Professor Kimani joined the University of Nairobi directly as a senior lecturer.

Even before taking off, he was already flying. There was a reason. Kenya,
Tanzania, and Uganda had just dismantled their University of East Africa.
Kenya's part of the university, now renamed the University of Nairobi, found
itself with a vacancy it had to fill immediately in its Institute of Development
Studies. Professor Kimani, who had just completed his studies at the University
of Oxford, wrote from there to say he wanted to fill it. To ensure he came and
filled it for sure, the University of Nairobi raised his entry point from that of a
lecturer to that of a senior lecturer.

He came. Only a month after his arrival, he launched a noisy debate in which he
demanded that the University of Nairobi henceforth strive for relevance to the
society rather than simply excellence of its work. I was not clear exactly what he
meant by relevance to the society.

However, a short six months later, he prevailed. The university's official motto
became, Relevance to the society.

After winning this war, he started another war which was even noisier. Now he
wanted the university to be an agent of change, not a mere spectator of it. This
was when people still thought this view was too radical and ridiculed it as
simple- minded. So, not surprising, some of his colleagues, puzzled by his refusal
to see that it was simple-minded, did or said little, convinced that he would fall
on his face before long and self-destruct on his own without their help.

He did not care. After all, his antics in wars that he had started, and won, had
also won him the heart of a campus beauty queen. Her name was Asiya Omondi.
He married her on a rainy but approving Saturday, to

claps of thunder and flashes of lightning. How marriage then accelerated

academic success! A professorship soon followed. After that achievement, he felt
fulfilled. His persona now was complete. Had anyone told him this happiness
would one day end as it did, he would have laughed himself upside down.

Questions

i. After Kimani fills a vacancy in University of Nairobi's Institute of Development

Studies, he demands for two changes at the university in quick succession. What
are these changes? (2mks)

ii. Identify and illustrate two character traits of Kimani brought out in this
excerpt. (4mks)

iii. Had anyone told him this happiness would one day end as it did, he would
have laughed himself upside down. (Supply a question tag) (1mk)

iv. Discuss two themes raised in the excerpt. (4mks)

v. To ensure he came and filled it for sure, the University of Nairobi raised his
entry point from that of a lecturer to that of a senior lecturer. (Write beginning
with the main clause). (1mk)

vi. The writer says, Had anyone told him this happiness would one day end as it
did, he would have laughed himself upside down. What later happened to
Professor Kimani in the text to bring his happiness to an end?

(4mks)

vii. Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the excerpt. (4mks)

a. Dismantled

b. Launched

c. Spectator

d. fulfilled

Answers
i. After Kimani fills a vacancy in The University of Nairobi's Institute of
Development Studies, he demands for two changes at the university in quick
succession. What are these changes? (2mks)

He demanded that the University of Nairobi henceforth strive for relevance to

the society rather than simply excellence of its work. He wanted the university to
be an agent of change, not a mere spectator of it.

ii. Identify and illustrate two character traits of Kimani brought out in this
excerpt. (4mks)

He is revolutionary – He fights for change in the university and achieves it

He is persistent – After he achieves his first demand, he starts another one which
is even noisier. (Any

other)

iii. Had anyone told him this happiness would one day end as it did, he would
have laughed himself upside down. (Supply a question tag) (1mk)

Had anyone told him this happiness would one day end as it did, he would have
laughed himself upside down, wouldn’t he?

iv. Discuss two themes raised in the excerpt. (4mks)

Rebellion – Kimani rebels against the university administration for change.

Ambition – Kimani is ambitious and scales high levels of education to earn

professorship. (Any other)

v. To ensure he came and filled it for sure, the University of Nairobi raised his
entry point from that of a lecturer to that of a senior lecturer. (Write beginning
with the main clause). (1 mark)

The University of Nairobi raised his entry point from that of a lecturer to that of a senior
lecturer, to ensure that he came and filled it for sure.

vi. The writer says, Had anyone told him this happiness would one day end as
it did, he would have laughed himself upside down." What later
happened to Professor Kimani in the text to bring his happiness to an end? (4
mks)

His daughter Tuni dies in a car crash.

His wife Asiya Omondi divorces him for his friend Newborn Walomu.

vii. Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the excerpt. (4 mks)

a. Dismantled - broke

b. Launched – began/started

c. Spectator - onlooker

d. Fulfilled – satisfied

EXCERPT 3
3. Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow. (20 marks)

“What followed?”

“Disaffection is what followed.” Comrade Melusi had finished his sadza. He was
washing his hands in a basin, with water the waiter was pouring down from a
pitcher.

“I went back into business.” Now he was washing his lips, over the basin, which
the waiter had raised to his chin.

The visitor reached for his coffee and took a sip. “More like it!” he said. “Nice
and hot,” he added. Then he turned to Comrade Melusi. “Your new business,
how did it do?”

“I can’t say it did well. Inflation was eroding incomes faster than they could
grow. But I survived. I didn’t live and work in as clean a suburb as I did before. I
just could not afford the rent there anymore. No, I had relocated to a slum in a
poor part of Harare. But, hey, I was alive.”

He laughed, falsely. Sorrow was in his eyes. “Then there came Murambatsvina.”
“Then there came what?” asked the visitor.

“Murambatsvina”. It is Shona, meaning expelling the trash.”

“Please go on.”

“Bulldozers went from slum to slum evicting residents by tearing their homes to
the ground. Murambatsvina

expelled us, the trash, all right. We got no advance warning before or alternative
accommodation after.

Nobody cared whether we lived or died. We had to go. It did not matter where.
Just go!

“Did anyone explain why you had to leave?”

Question

a) Briefly explain what happens immediately before the excerpt. (3 marks)

b) From the excerpt, comment on any two character traits of Comrade Melusi. (4
marks)

c) Identify, illustrate and state the effectiveness of the features of style in the
above excerpt. (4 marks)

d) Comrade Melusi had finished his sadza. (Begin: His sadza…) (1 mark)

e) But I survived. (Add a question tag) (1 mark)

f) Identify and explain the major theme in the excerpt. (2 marks)

g) From elsewhere in the text, explain what Comrade Melusi says was the true
aim of Murambatsvina. (2marks)

h) Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the excerpt.

i. Disaffection

ii. Inflation

iii. Suburb
Answers

a) Comrade Melusi tells the visitor that the political parties did not unite but each party
went alone as each candidate wanted to be the president. When the elections came, they
all lost big time. They then united as they declared that the elections were a sham.

b) Resilient/ enterprising- I went back to business

Optimistic- But, hey, I was alive But I survived

Sorrowful- sorrow was in his eyes

(Any other relevant)

c) Dialogue- Comrade Melusi and the visitor. The dialogue enhances the theme of
oppression

Metaphor- the trash. Proves discrimination and oppression by those in power

Local dialect- Murambatsvina

Flashback- the excerpt is a flashback of Comrade Melusi’s life before joining AGDA.
The flashback advance the plot as it helps us to know about Comrade Melusi’s past life.

d) His sadza had been finished by Comrade Melusi.

e) But I survived, didn’t I?

f) Oppression- Bulldozers went from slum to slum evicting residents by tearing their
homes to the ground. Murambatsvina expelled us, the trash, all right.

g) Its true aim was to punish the urban poor for supporting opposition parties.

h) Disaffection- discontent

Inflation- increase in the cost of living, decline in the price of money

Suburb- residential area at the outskirts of a city or large town

4.Read the following excerpt and answer the questions that follows.

"What are your expectations? Please don't get me started !

I expect the summit to be a historical moment. If adopted, Way Omega will
change African politics dramatically. Just think: no more rigged elections; well,
no more foul play, period."

"Dr Afolabi, not all the heads of state assembled here are fair players. In fact, a
few are out - and - out foul players - they rose to power through military coups
or rigged elections. Those won't be walking along Way Omega any time soon,
will they?"

"Change is always like that, Ms McKenzie.One side of it has defenders of existing

arrangements. These, sure about their loss if those arrangements end, fight tooth
and nail to keep them. The other side has challengers

of existing arrangements. These not yet sure about their gain if new
arrangements replace old arrangements,

do not fight so hard to win them."

" Huh? What did you just say, Dr Afolabi?"

You are not listening to me anymore, are you, Ms McKenzie? Anyway, I was
saying Way Omega will put Africa on a new course, free from the obstacles that
have defeated it's past efforts. Imagine this, Ms McKenzie: Africa without coups,
without civil wars, without..." He stopped himself. Look who is rambling on
now, Ms McKenzie? Yet can you blame me? I told you not to get me started,
remember?"

"Yes, I remember and yet we have your book : Failure of States. Dr Afolabi, may I
ask you something? What makes you this optimistic about Africa's future now
,when in that book you were very pessimistic? Is it thecontent of Way Omega or
the prestige of it's author?"

Questions

1. Describe how the African leadership as portrayed in the excerpt ( 2 marks )

2. Make notes on Dr. Afolabi's trait. ( 5 marks)

3. Is Dr. Afolabi justified to be optimistic at the summit? Support your

answer. ( 2 marks)
4. Referring to elsewhere in the book, explain why there is irony in what Dr.
Afolabi tells Fiona about the Way Omega. ( 6 marks)

5. Comment on any two features of style used in the excerpt. ( 4 marks)

6. What events follow after this extract ( 3 marks)

7. Compare Fiona and Dr Afolabi's relationship now and later in the book. ( 3
marks )

Answers

1) i) Corrupt - Some rise and retain power mostly through coups, rigged elections
and foul play

iSi) Inept - Insensitive to the needs of the African citizens. They fight for status quo.

2. - Knowledgeable, has written a book on the failure of States.

- hypocritical , speaks in support of Way Omega to Fiona but behind the scenes he
advocates to Path

Alpha and even introduces it at the summit

- optimistic, he believes that the summit will bring change.

- learned , he is a PhD holder.

3. Yes he advocates for change and he is a key speaker and influencer at the summit.
He will recommends for change.

4. Dr Afolabi is here for the adoption of Path Alpha not Way Omega. He is the paving
way for Prof . Kimani,Comrade Melusi and Pastor Chiamaka who has been recruited
by Tad Longway to come and support Path Alpha at the summit.

5. Dialogue - Fiona interviews Dr. Afolabi

Sarcasm - Fiona sarcastically asks Dr. Afolabi why he had suddenly change to
optimism." What makes you suddenly this optimistic about Africa's future now,
when in that book you were very pessimistic? Is it the content of Way Omega or the
prestige of it's author?
 6. Dr.Afolabi seethes with hatred from Fiona.He realizes that Fiona was very
analytical person and not the lady he had undermined. Dr Afolabi expresses his
hunger and discomfort with Fiona's interviews.

7. Initially , It is hateful - Dr Afolabi thinks that Fiona is arrogant as she interviews

him. Later, after he rescues Fiona from an attacker at Seamount Hotel they would
strike a friendly relationship and Dr . Afolabi would even host her in his room. They
are friends in the rest of the story.

EXCERPT 5
5. Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow: (25 marks)

Forty-nine foreign heads of state were in Banjul for the summit. All looked
happy, and why not? Had they not escaped from troublemakers in their home
countries? They saw ahead of them a stay free from trouble here, in the
Gambia, a country everyone kept calling 'the land of Kunta-kinteh'. All hoped
to get from their stay as much rest as possible. Of course, at some point, they
would each other take the floor and, as fans back home expected, address the
summit, but this was something that they could do with little or no effort at
all. For Gambians, though, the presence of so many visiting dignitaries was
not fun. True, forty-nine heads of state could give a hosting country good
publicity, but heads of state are a huge inconvenience. So this publicity comes
at a high price.

Nowhere is the price higher than it is in Africa. Here, before the dignitaries
arrive, bulldozers dispatched at night in slum-clearance 'exercises' demolish
roadside kiosks on which whole families depend for their livelihood. This
way, the dignitaries will see that a few streets once had sidewalks. Roads get
rare layers of tarmac at times of maximum traffic. This way, motorists come to
a standstill when it really hurts.

Checkpoints sprout everywhere. This way, guards get even more bases for
extorting bribes from passersby. When the dignitaries finally arrive, water
taps at which whole neighborhoods queue to get just buckets of water dry up
because now all water has to go to new water fountains built to mesmerise the

visitors.

QUESTIONS

1. Explain what happens immediately before this extract (4mks)

2. Identify and explain two styles used in the excerpt. (4 marks)
3. Identify and illustrate three thematic concerns evident in this extract
(4mks)
4. What does the author mean when he says, "Had they not escaped from
troublemakers in their home countries"? (4 marks)
5. From your knowledge of the text, who were the four strangers who
checked in at the Seamount Hotel in Banjul for the summit? (4 marks)
6. Add a question tag: This way, motorists come to a standstill when it
really hurts. (1 mark)
7. Explain the meanings of the following vocabulary used in the excerpt. (4
marks)
a) Mesmerise -
b) Demolish -
c) Extort -
d) Summit –

Answers
1. Ms Mckenzie, a reporter for the Gambian News, is interviewing Dr Afolabi on
the summit scheduled to take place at The Seamount Hotel in Banjul. Ms
Mckenzie receives an urgent call from her boss and asks Afolabi to summarise his
response so she can leave. She then asks to reschedule the meeting, but the
interviewee declines, telling her to go and read well his book, Failure of States,
before organising another interview. Forty-nine heads of state in Banjul means
that Banjul was hosting a summit attended by forty-nine presidents of different
countries in Africa. (3 marks)

2. Poverty
 All families depended on the kiosk for their livelihood. The streets did not have
sidewalks. Most Gambians live in
slums. There is a shortage of water for the neighbourhoods.
Corruption
Traffic checkpoints sprout everywhere, creating an enabling ground for guards to
extort bribes from passers-by. Poor governance
The author says that the forty-nine heads of state in Banjul all looked happy
because they had escaped troublemakers from their home countries. This evidences
poor leadership in African countries. There can only be trouble in a country with a
leadership crisis.
Suffering
The suffering of the people that they go through in the hands of the leaders is
clearly brought out.
Poor governance.
The leaders are incompetent and leading their subjects poorly,no services like
water,no jobs no wonder they resort to roadside kiosks e.t.c

3.Irony
The narrator says, forty-nine foreign heads of state were in Banjul for the summit.
All looked happy, and why not? Had they not escaped from troublemakers in their
home countries? They saw ahead of them and stayed free from trouble here, in the
Gambia. The irony of this statement is that the leaders are acting unaware that
there are the creators of the problems they are running away from their own
countries. It is ironic
that the heads of state are happy to be in the Gambia, a country battling its
problems, which apparently, are worse than
their own. Through this irony, the playwright highlights the pretentious nature of
the heads of state and the theme of
hypocrisy.

Vivid description

The writer uses words to paint clear mental images in the reader's mind. This enables the
audience to understand the text better. The scenery is vividly described as the country
prepares to receive the heads of state. Bulldozers dispatched at night in slam clearance
'exercises' demolished roadside kiosks on which whole families depend for their livelihood.
This

description points out the rare atmosphere of the bitterness of the people of the rural
Gambia that is characterized by hustles and bustles.

Rhetorical question

....had they not escaped from the trouble makers in their own countries?

Satire

The incompetency and inefficiency of the leaders are brought out as they are being
satirized.

4. The author is showing the irony in the reason for the heads of states' happiness in
visiting Banjul. This equally portrays the trouble the heads of state have left behind,
escaping from the problems they have solely originated through their poor leadership
practices.

5. i. Professor Karanja Kimani

ii. Pastor Chineke Chiamaka

iii. Engineer Seif Tahir

iv. Ngobile Melusi

6. don’t they?

7. i. Mesmerise: To make something or a place the most distinct and stunning to attract.

ii. Demolish: To tear down something or destroy it.

iii. Extort:To obtain something by force, intimidation or unlawful use of power.

iv. Summit: A gathering or an assembly of leaders.

EXCERPT 6
6. Read the extract below and then answer the questions that follow:
Professor Kimani joined the University of Nairobi directly as a senior lecturer.
Even before taking off, he was already flying. There was a reason. Kenya,
Tanzania, and Uganda had just dismantled théir University of East Africa.
Kenya's part of the university, now renamed the University of Nairobi, found
itself with a vacancy it had to fill immediately in its Institute of Development
Studies.

Professor Kimani, who had just completed his studies at the University of
Oxford, wrote from there to say he wanted to fill it. To ensure he came and filled
it for sure, the University of Nairobi raised his entry point from that of a lecturer
to that of a senior lecturer.

He came. Only a month after his arrival, he launched a noisy debate in which he
demanded that the University of Nairobi henceforth strive for relevance to the
society rather than simply excellence of its work. It was not clear exactly what he
meant by relevance to the society rather than simply excellence of its work. It

was not clear exactly what he meant by relevance to the society. However, a
short six months later, he prevailed. The university's official motto became,
'Relevance to the society'.

After winning this war, he started another war which was even noisier. Now he
wanted the university to be an agent of change, not a mere spectator of it. This
was when people still thought this view was too radical and

ridiculed it as simple- minded. So, not surprising, some of his colleagues,

puzzled by his refusal to see that it was simple-minded, did or said little,
convinced that he would fall on his face before long and self-destruct on his own
without their help.

He did not care. After all, his antics in wars that he had started, and won, had
also won him the heart of a campus beauty queen. Her name was Asiya Omondi.
He married her on a rainy but approving Saturday, to claps of thunder and
flashes of lightning. How marriage then accelerated academic success! A
professorship soon followed. After that achievement, he felt fulfilled. His
persona now was complete. Had anyone told him this happiness would one day
end as it did, he would have laughed himself upside down.
QUESTIONS

a) After Kimani fills a vacancy in University of Nairobi's Institute of

Development Studies, he demands for two changes at the university in quick
succession. What are these changes? (2 marks)

b) Identify and illustrate three characters traits of Kimani brought out in this
excerpt. (6 marks)

c) Discuss three themes raised in the excerpt. (6 marks)

d) (i) To ensure he came and filled it for sure, the University of Nairobi raised his
entry point from that of a lecturer to that of a senior lecturer. (Write beginning
with the main clause). (1 mark)

e) Identify two stylistic devices used in the excerpt. (4 marks)f) The writer says,
'Had anyone told him this happiness would one day end as it did, he would have
laughed himself upside down." What later happened to Professor Kimani in the
text? (2 marks)

7. Read the Excerpt below and answer the Questions that follow. (25marks)

“Ms McKenzie!” he said. “What a pleasant surprise!” He ushered her in. “Please
come in.”

“I hope I’m not interrupting anything,” she said. He closed the door then steered
her towards a chair.

“Feel at home,” he said.

“And I will.” She sat. “Mother has a question for her boy. How was your day,
young one?”

“It was only so- so, “Mother,” he said. “Or, as we say back home, ‘Only small-
small.”’

Mother thinks that’s big-big enough. Are you ready for tomorrow?”

As ready as I never will be, I guess, Mother.” He went and sat beside her.

“And do you still think the summit will adopt Way Omega?”
 Only twelve hours. We can wait.”

“By the way, guess who I ran into downstairs? Someone by the name Longway. I
was tracking down a man they call their guide and thought this fellow might be
him. Do you know him?”

Dr Afolabi did not answer.

Well, do you know Mr Longway or not?”

“Yes, Ms McKenzie, I do. You might as well know this now: I am their guide.”

“What?”

“Promise you will keep that to yourself, Okay?”

“I promise.”

“Apart from Mr Longway , whom you now know, there are four other people
I’m working with on the periphery of the summit as their guide. Instead of
adopting way Omega, this group wants the summit

to adopt Path Alpha.”

QUESTIONS

1. What happens before this excerpt.(4mks)

2. Comment on any three styles in the excerpt. (6mks)

3. “Feel at home.” He said. (change to reported speech) (1mk)

4. “Are you ready for tomorrow?” what is to happen tomorrow from the rest of
the text? (3mks)

5. Identify and explain two character traits each of: (4mks)

I) Dr. Afolabi-

Ms. Fiona mckenzie-

6. What is, “this group” and why does it want the summit to adopt, “ Path
Alpha” and not “Way Omega”. (4mks)
 7. Give the meaning of these words: (3mks)

I) Steered

II) Periphery

III) Summit-

ANSWERS TO THE EXCERPT.

i) What happens before this excerpt? (4mks)

Tad Longway convinces Ms. Mckenzie to have a drink with him.

Ms. McKenzie accepts the offer after a persuasion to have a coke with a promise to leave
soon.

Dr. Afolabi ready to go over his notes on the presidents’ summit one more time.

Dr. Afolabi is distracted by a knock at the door.

He opens the door to usher Ms. Fiona in.

ii) Comment on any three styles in the excerpt. (6mks)

Dialogue – Dr. Afolabi talks to Ms. Fiona about the impending change on the switch of
“Way Omega” for “Path Alpha”. He reveals his identity to Ms. Fiona.

Rhetoric/Rhetorical questions – “.is it just me or has it gone colder over the past two
days?” This makes the readers brain storm on Dr. Abiola Afolabi’s sudden change of
stand.

Direct Translation – Dr. Afolabi replys, “only small.” When asked how his day was

iii) “Feel at home.” He said. (Change to reported speech)(1mk)

He told Ms. Mckenzie to feel at home. /He told Ms. McKenzie that she should feel at
home.

iv) “Are you ready for tomorrow?” what is to happen tomorrow from the rest
of the text? (3mks)
Dr. Afolabi is to attend the presidents’ debate the next day. He is to play the role of an
advisor to the presidents on the ideas of Way Omega and to help them adopt it.

v) Identify and explain two character traits each of: (4mks)

i) Dr. Afolabiü Sociable/Frendly/Welcoming/affable – he behaves politely and

in a friendly manner towards

Ms. Mckenzie’s arrival. He recognizes her as Ms. Mckenzie and welcomes her to fell at
home.

Secretive – he asks Ms. Mckenzie to keep his identity (as the guide) a secret together
with the other information on AGDA advocates. “Promise you will keep that to
yourself.”

ii) Ms. Fiona mckenzie

Concerned/Accommodating – she asks Dr. Afolabi how his day was. “How was your
day young one?”

Inquisitive – digs more information from Dr. Afolabi about Way Omega.

Keen/ Observant/ Critical – She observes that Dr.Afolabi does not sound so upbeat as
he did two days ago.

Persistent - she presses on asking Dr. Afolabi whether he knew Mr. Longway.

vi) What is, “this group” and why does it want the summit to adopt, “Path
Alpha” and not “Way Omega”. (4mks)

The group being referred to is AGDA- Agency for Governance and Development in
Africa. Path Alpha is strong on implementation (a bird in hand) while Way Omega is
strong on ideas but weak on implementation.

vii) Discuss two themes evident in this excerpt. (4 mks)

Change/ Transition – AGDA wants the summit to adopt Path Alpha and not Way
Omega.

Deception/Deceit – Dr. Abiola has been hiding his identity all this while to Ms. Fiona
and the other four advocates.
viii) Give the meaning of these words: (3mks)

i) Steered- guided/directed

ii) Periphery- side/edge

iii) Summit- meeting/conference/discussion/talks