Question 6
Observation
This question is from “Ọmalinze” titled ‘Ọnwụ Ayolo’.
Candidates were to examine the story then (a) write out what the old man in the story did within a month to his death when his son turned 10; (b) give the name of what the old man did as known in Igbo culture; (c) list cultural ceremonies that are evident in the story ; (d) write out what Ayolo used to identify the boundary of his father’s land and (e) give two moral lessons that can be derived from the story.
Expected answers:
(a) Agadi nwoke kpọkọrọ ụmụnna ya dụm, were otu ewu hachie Ọnwụ Ayolo n’okwu
ndịichie ka ọ nochiere ya anya nwoke dị ka omenala siri dị ebe ọ mụtaghị nwoke.
(b) Ike ekpe
(c) - Ike ekpe
- Ịzọ ala
- Iri ekpe
- Amụtaghị nwa n’oge
- Ịkwa ozu
- Ịnụ iyi
- Ikpe ikpe/ Ịkụ ikpe
- Amụtaghị nwa nwoke
- Ịhachi nwa nwaanyị
(d) - Ndanda mkpu
- Ube
- Ụkpaka kara aka
(e) - Mmegbu nwa ogbenye adịghị mma.
- Anyaukwu adịghị mma.
- Ịzọ ala na-ebute okwu/ ọ dịghị mma.
- Okwu asị adịghị mma.
- Ikpe nkwụmọtọ dị mma.