Literature in EnglishDramatic techniquesJAMB

Read the extract and answer the question. [A village square at dusk. BABA ALAO sits on a stool. KEMI enters with a bucket.] BABA ALAO: You walk as if the ground owes you money. KEMI: (setting the bucket down) The ground owes nobody, Baba. It is the borehole that owes us water. BABA ALAO: In my day we drank from the stream and thanked the gods. KEMI: In your day the stream did not carry the factory's colours. BABA ALAO: (aside) The child speaks like her mother, sharp as a new cutlass. KEMI: Tomorrow the women will march to the council. Will you come? BABA ALAO: (rising slowly) An old tortoise does not race. But it arrives. (An original extract written for AdmitMe practice.)

Baba Alao's last line suggests that he will

An AdmitMe practice question, written for the JAMB syllabus. Not an official past question.