English, 10.01.2020 23:31, emmilicious

Read the excerpt from "civil peace" by chinua achebe.

jonathan iwegbu counted himself extraordinarily lucky. "happy survival! ” meant so much more to him than just a current fashion of greeting old friends in the first hazy days of peace. it went deep to his heart. he had come out of the war with five inestimable blessings—his head, his wife maria’s head and the heads of three out of their four children. as a bonus he also had his old bicycle—a miracle too but naturally not to be compared to the safety of five human heads.

what can you most clearly determine about the story’s setting from this excerpt?

a. the story takes place right before a war.
b. the story takes place in the middle of a war.
c. the story takes place right after a war.
d. the story takes place years before the start of a war.

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Read the excerpt from "civil peace" by chinua achebe.

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