Questions 5(a) to 5(c) are based on one of the prescribed short stories for your study. Provide short answers to them.
(Write any one of the following words or phrases for each)
(a) What is referred to as Poor little thing in the story?

(b) What is the setting of the story?

(c) The attitude of the girls to the baby bird is that of ………………………….

(d) Be courageous, be courageous, Kwame, be courageous is an example of the use of a literary device termed ………………….

(e) How did Kwame show that he was courageous at the end of the story?

Once there was an old man who had seven sons.
They should have been his pride and joy.
But they were not.

(f) The above extract is a/an ……………………..to a story.

(g) The idea expressed in the second sentence is that of ……………….

Yes, my young woman, I shall remember you.
I shall remember you in the hours of the night –
In my sleep,
In my sleepless sleep.

(h) “… young woman” refers to ………………..

(i) The ‘sleepless sleep’ of the speaker is caused by ………………………

(j) “… sleepless sleep” shows that the speaker is ……………………..

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