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Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow.
“You are mad!” Resian screamed at him. You are stark mad if you think I am your wife. I can only be your wife over my dead body. Yes, you and my father can kill me and carry my dead body to your palatial home.” He was stunned by those harsh words. He winced as if he had been struck. Then already harsh line of his mouth tightened and he stood tense for a moment. Then he relaxed and watched her mockingly. “You can never escape Resian,” he repeated quietly, smiling. The very normality of his voice as he spoke those monstrous words was most shocking and disturbing to her. Whether you scream your heart out, or jump into the deep sea, Resian, you are mine. You are my wife from now henceforth” “I want to go now.” Resian announced angrily shuddering with disgust and terror. “You want to go?” he asked, the contemptuous quiet of his voice a menace by itself. “Go! You want to be persuaded, coaxed and pampered to marry Oloisudori Lonkiya

Answer Text:
1. Say what happens before this excerpt.
Resian welcomes Oloisudori inside the house and excuses herself to bring tea. Oloisudori tells her that tea is not important and informs Resian of his plans to marry her and the benefits she will get for marrying him. Resian gets very annoyed and speechless. Resian learns that her father has already received dowry for her marriage to Oloisudori. He reports to her that their fate is sealed.

2. How is Oloisudori portrayed in this excerpt?
He is contemptuous. “He asked, the contemptuous quiet of his voice a menace by itself”. He talks Resian with disrespect and mockingly.
He is arrogant. He feels superior and egocentric. He says no one plays games with Oloisudori.

3. Describe the feeling of Resian in this excerpt.
She is feeling disappointed and angry of her father’s action of receiving dowry with an aim of sealing her marriage with Oloisudori.

4. From other areas of the novel, state other crimes that are practiced by Oloisudori.
Extortion, assassinations shadowy businesses, sexual immorality, robbery, smuggling, poaching.

5. How does the writer utilize irony in this excerpt?
It is ironical that Oloisudori who is older than Resian’s father plans to marry Resian a young girl even after he is told her wish is to study at the university.
It is also ironical that Kaelo has already picked dowry from Oloisudori without his daughter Resian’s knowledge

6. “You are my wife from now henceforth” Rewrite in the reported speech.
He told her that she was his wife from then henceforth.
Or
He told her that from then henceforth she was his wife.

7. Explain the meaning of the following words.
a) Pampered
b) Disgust
c) Mad
d) Palatial

a) Means to treat with excessive care
b) To have strong loathe
c) Means insane/crazy
d) Means grand/ like a palace

7. What happens immediately after this extract?
Resian rans blindly knocking a chair and a table and disappears past Oloisudori’s driver. She goes to her father’s shop. She is very mad with indignation.