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JAMB Literature in English 2008 Question 16

Question 16

Other Set Texts: African Prose
JAMB 2008: Ferdinand Oyono, The Old Man and the Medal (extract)
The passage, as printed

In the statement above, The night rat doesn't tell what happened to him in the dark! refers to

  1. A.the whiteman's treatment of Meka
  2. B.Meka's treatment of the medal in the whitewashed circle
  3. C.people's unwillingness to talk about how whitemen treat them
  4. D.people's freedom of expression.
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Answer: C (people's unwillingness to talk about how whitemen treat them)

Explanation

The proverb means that people keep quiet about what was done to them in secret; here, Africans do not speak about how the whites treat them.