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JAMB Literature in English 2010 Question 43

Question 43

Other Set Texts: African Prose
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart (extract)
The passage, as printed

The mood conveyed in the excerpt above is one of

  1. A.frustration
  2. B.sympathy
  3. C.dilemma
  4. D.sadness.
Show the answer and explanation

Answer: D (sadness.)

Explanation

The harvest is 'sad, like a funeral', farmers weep and one man hangs himself: the mood is sadness.