Observation

This question requires the candidates to discuss Adah’s attempted birth control and the reaction of Francis, her husband, to her action. A number of the candidates were not able to meet the demands of the question.

Candidates were expected to discuss the following:

• Statement of the themes of patriarchy, racial discrimination and western education.
• Character identification of Francis and Adah as presented in the novel.
• Adah’s visit to the Family Planning Clinic and her forgery of Francis’s signature approving the birth control choice for the family.
• Francis’s reaction: He writes to his parents in Nigeria about Adah’s  matter.
• The implications of the birth control in relation to the themes.

Candidates’ performance in this question was fair.