Question 20
African Poetry'The Fulani Creation Story' shows that
- A.the world came about by a series of chance happenings
- B.the world was created in three days
- C.a logic of cause-and-effect underlies all creation
- D.death came into the world when man set himself up as God's rival.
Show the answer and explanation
Answer: C (a logic of cause-and-effect underlies all creation)
Explanation
In the story each thing Doondari creates becomes proud and is overcome by the next (stone by iron, iron by fire, and so on until death is overcome), so creation follows a chain of cause and effect.