Literature in EnglishLiterary appreciation: unseen proseJAMB

Read the passage below and answer the question. Mama Ngozi's shop stood at the corner of Ugbene Street like an old soldier who had refused to retire. Its zinc roof had rusted to the colour of kola nuts, and its door, which had not closed properly since the flood two rainy seasons ago, was held shut at night by a stone and a prayer. Yet every morning the children came, coins warm in their palms, to buy groundnuts and chin-chin, and every morning Mama Ngozi greeted each of them by name, as though each one were the first customer she had ever had. 'Business is not money,' she told her son Emeka, who had come home from Lagos with a phone that never stopped ringing and plans that never stopped growing. 'Business is people.' Emeka laughed and said she was living in the past. She only smiled and wiped the counter again.

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