Practice and Apply Use what you know about the Vocabulary words to answer the following questions.
1. When did you have to act in a resolute way to face a challenge?
2. When did you legitimately claim that someone owed you something?
3. When did you strew things across a room? Why did you do it?
4. When would you need to be solemn in a group of people?
5. When has your response to news been muted?
6. When has your hat been askew on your head?

In about two hundred words, explain how the author's use of folktales and symbolism add meaning to the story and convey the central theme of the novel: the disintegration of the traditional igbo society as a result of its contact with european practices and beliefs.

Some one drawing water and my theater placed my hand under the spout. as the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water , first slowly , then rapidly . i stood still ,my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers . suddenly i felt misty consciousness as of soothing forgotten --a thrill of returning thought and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me this passage from the stoyof my life is an wxample of which element of plotclimax action

Which underlined word in the sentence is a demonstrative adjective? these brown shoes fit my feet very well.