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O-LevelLiterature in EnglishProse2010/12 · May/June 2025 · Q725 Marks

SECTION B: PROSE Answer one question from this section. CHINUA ACHEBE: Things Fall Apart Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this passage, and then answer the question that follows it: The priestess had now reached Okonkwo's compound and was talking with him outside his hut. Content removed due to copyright restrictions. Okonkwo cleared his throat, and brought out his snuff-bottle from the goatskin bag by his side. (from Chapter 11)

  1. How does Achebe make this such a dramatic moment in the novel?[25]

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Prose, O-Level Literature in English (syllabus 2010). Structured question, 25 marks.
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O-Level Literature in English, May/June 2025 Paper 1 Variant 2, question 7.

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