102 Questions And Answers On The Dilemma Of a Ghost

102 Questions And Answers On The Dilemma Of a Ghost

Cockcrow questions on the dilemma of a Ghost

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This article will contain about 102 questions and answers on the dilemma of a Ghost. These cock questions on the dilemma of a ghost is carefully selected from relevant literature books. Let’s delve in the convo

The Dilemma of a Ghost

Extract 1

I am an asthmatic old hag

Eternally breaking the nuts

Whose soup, alas

No wished a bundle of whitened bones

Or a pair of women, your neighbourhood

Chattering their lives away

Questions and Answers

1. Who is the speaker of the extract above?

Answer: The bird of the Wayside

• The extract above is from which division or act of the play?

Answer: the prelude

• What figure of speech is used in the underlined line?

Answer: assonance

Extract 2: Dilemma of a Ghost

They multiply faster than fowls

And they acquire gold

As if it were corn grains

But if in the making of One scholar

Much is gone

Questions

• Who is the speaker?

Answer: the bird of the wayside

• Which names are mentioned before this extract?

Answer: Oburumankuma, Odapadjan, and Osun

• The extract is from the………….of the play.

Answer: prelude

• The underlined expression is an example of………..

Answer: simile

• The One Scholar in the extract above refers to who?

Answer: Ato Yawson

Extract 3: Cockcrow questions

Not that they expected him to make his home

there, No… he will certainly have to live

and work in the city when he arrive from

the white man’s land

Questions

• Who is the speaker of the extract?

Answer: the Bird of the Wayside

1. The extract is from which act of the play?

Answer: prelude

1. Who does the him in the extract refers to?

Answer: Ato Yawson

1. What is the literary name for given to the……….. in the extract?

Answer: Ellipsis

1. From which white man’s land would the person arrive from?

Answer: America

Extract 4: Dilemma of a Ghost Cockrow question

Graduation! Ah well, that too isn’t bad

But who’s a graduate? What sort of creature

is it? Why should I have supposed that mere graduation is a passport to happiness?

1. Who is the speaker here?

Answer: Eulalie

1. Who spoke before this extract?

Answer: The Bird of the Wayside

1. Who speaks after this extract?

Answer: Ato

1. What is the setting of the extract above?

Answer: A University Campus

1. What is the mood of the speaker?

Answer: Annoyance or sarcasm

Extract 5

How often do you want to drag in about African women?

Leave them alone, will you?……..Ah, yes

they talk. But Christ, they don’t run on this

way. The running-tap drawl gets on my nerves.

1. Who is speaking?

Answer: Ato

• Who is the speaker addressing?

Answer: Eulalie

• Who speaks after this extract?

Answer: Eulalie

• The underlined expression is an example of?

Answer: Metaphor

Extract 6

Aren’t you the sweetest and loveliest thing

in Africa and America rolled together? My

Darling, we are going to create a paradise

with or without children.

Questions and Answers

• Who is the speaker?

Answer: Ato

• Who is the speaker addressing?

Answer: Eulalie

• What issue brought about the above extract?

Answer: the issue of having children

• What is the dominant device in the extract above?

Answer: Hyperbole or Exaggeration

Extract

But who would have thought that I

whose house is teeming with children

My own, my husband’s my sister’s…….

But that is my curse

• Who is the speaker of the extract above?

Answer: 2^nd woman

• Who is the speaker addressing?

Answer: 1^st woman

• Who spoke before this extract?

Answer: 1^st woman

• What is the time setting of the extract above?

Answer: evening

• What does the speaker refers to as “my curse”

Answer: Her working always

• What is the place setting of the extract above?

Answer: On the way from the river

• What was the speaker of the extract carrying?

Answer: A pot of water

Extract 7

But at the very last

You are luckiest who have them

Take Esi Kom, I say.

• The extract above is from which character?

Answer: 1^st woman

• Who spoke before this extract?

Answer: 2^nd woman

• Who enters the stage after the above extract?

Answer: Esi Kom

• The ‘them’ in the extract refers to?

Answer: children

Extract 8: Cokcrow questions on the dilemma of a ghost

Already, naughty slumber is stealing

Over my sense. Yes, someone has tripped

in the doorway, eh. One day the people

in the house will commit murder. Do they

not know that if the heavens withdraw

their light, man must light his way?

• Who is the speaker of the above?

Answer: Nana

• Who spoke before this extract?

Answer: Ato

• The expression “naughty slumber is stealing over my senses” is an example of…………………..

Answer: Personification

• What pushed the speaker to make this extract above?

Answer: She has been waiting

Extract 10: The Dilemma of a Ghost

Have we not had enough of the white man’s

medicines? Since they do not seem to do anything

for your wife, why do you not take her to Kofikrom

• The extract above is the words of ………………….

Answer: Nana

• Who is the speaker addressing?

Answer: Akroma

• Whose wife is mentioned in the extract?

Answer: Akroma

• Why did the speaker recommend Kofikrom?

Answer: Because the herbalist there is famous

• Who speaks after the extract above?

Answer: Akroma

Extract 11

The master scholar was sitting on the chair

Studying, so he could not move off! After all

what is he learning? Is it the knowledge of

the leopard skin?

• Who is speaking in the extract above?

Answer: Monka

• Who is the speaker addressing

Answer: Ato

• Who spoke before the extract above?

Answer: Ato

• Who is referred to as the master scholar?

Answer: Ato Yawson

Extract 12

If course, he is a first born. Our elder

hold that first borns are always humble.

Our white master, we welcome you.

• The speaker of the above extract is?

Answer: Petu

• Who spoke before the above extract?

Answer: Nana

• Who speaks after the above extract?

Answer: Ato

• Who is referred to as ‘our white master’

Answer: Ato

• Who is referred to as the first born?

Answer: Ato

• In terms of relation, what is the speaker to Ato?

Answer: Ato’s eldest uncle

Extract 13

But we thought that we too have found a

treasure at land for our house. What have

you one to us, my son? We do not know

the ways of the white people. Won’t people

laugh at us?

• The speaker of the extract above is?

Answer: Akyere

• Who is addressed in the extract above?

Answer: Ato

• Who spoke before this extract above?

Answer: Monka

• What is the treasure referred in the extract above?

Answer: the training or education of a scholar.

• Why would people laugh at them?

Answer: Because Ato has gone to marry a stranger from whiteman’s land

• Who speak after this extract?

Answer: Ato

Extract 14

My spirit mother ought to have come for me

earlier. Now, what shall I tell them who are

gone. The daughter of slaves who came from the

white man’s land. Someone should advise me

on how to tell my story.

• The speaker of the extract is?

Answer: Nana

• The spirit Mother in the extract refers to……

Answer: Ancestors

• What is the speaker’s story?

Answer: That Ato has gone to marry from white man’s land

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Extract 15

They will ask me where I was

When such things were happening.

O mighty God !

Even when the unmentionable

Came and carried off the children of the house

In schools like fish,

Nana Kom kept his feet steadfast on the ground

And refused to let any of this nephews

Take a wife from a doubtful stock.

• From which out is the extract above taken from?

Answer: Act One

• Who is the speaker?

Answer: Nana

• The extract is an example of the dramatic technique……..

Answer: Soliloquy

• The word ‘they’ beginning in the extract refers to who?

Answer: Her ancestors

• Which era of Ghanaian history is captured in the extract

Answer; the era of slave trade

• What is referred to as the unmentionable?

Answer: slave trade

• The expression ‘in shoals like fish’ is an example of…….

Answer: simile

• What does the speaker mean by ‘doubtful stock’

Answer: People who cannot trace their ancestry

• From which act of the play is the extract above?

Answer: Act Two

• The speaker of the extract is……..

Answer: 1^st woman

• What is the time setting of the extract?

Answer: Afternoon

• Who is the speaker of the extract above?

Answer: 2^nd Woman

• Who spoke before the extract above?

Answer: 2^nd Woman

• What is the central idea of the extract?

Answer: The importance of child bearing.

• The place setting of the extract above is?

Answer: on the way from the woods.

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Extract 16

Speaker A: Do you as that of me

When everybody knows

A son is back from the land beyond the seas?

Shall he not help to look after his nephews.

Speaker B: Perhaps they are not, my sister

But those days are over

When it was expedient for two deer

To walk together,

• Who is Speaker A?

Answer: 1^st Woman

• Who is Speaker B?

Answer: 2^nd Woman

• The land beyond the seas refers to?

Answer: Europe

Extract 16

Oh, Eternal Mother Nature,

Queen Mother of Childbirth

How was if you went past my house

Without a pause

Without a rest?

Mighty God, when shall the cry of an

infant come into my ear

For the sun has journeyed far

In my sky.

• The extract above is attributed to who?

Answer: 1^st Woman

• The speaker before the extract above was?

Answer: 2^nd Woman

• The two (2) addressed in the extract above are,…………..

Answer: Eternal Mother Nature and Mighty God

• The extract above is an example of dramatic technique

Answer: Soliloquy

• What is the theme of the extract above?

Answer: Childlessness or Barrenness

• The mood of the speaker is……………

Answer: Sorrow or Sadness

• The sun in the extract symbolizes what?

Answer: fruitlessness or barrenness

• The above is a dramatics technique called

Answer: Soliloquy

• Who is the speaker?

Answer: Voice

• Who is the speaker addressing?

Answer: Her late Mother

• Who does the voice above represents?

Answer: Eulalie

• The underlined expression in the extract is an example of

Answer: simile

Extract 17

Christ, what are you apologising for?

After all, I was only feeling a little

homesick and I drank it for

sentimental reasons. I could have

had a much cooler, sweeter and

more nourishing substitute in

coconuts, couldn’t i?

• Who is speaking in the above extract?

Answer: Eulalie

• Who is the speaker addressing?

Answer: Ato

• What did the speaker drink?

Answer: Coca-cola

• The word ‘homesick’ as used in the extract means

Answer: Missing one’s home and family

Extract 18

One early morning,

When the moon was up,

Shining as the sun,

I went to Elmina junction

And there and then,

I saw a wretched ghost

Going up and down

Singing to himself

Shall I go

To Cape Coast

Or to Elmina

1. The lines above are the words of who?

Answer: Boy and Girl

1. The above lines make a popular……..

Answer: song

1. Who brought the idea of the song above?

Answer: The Girl

Conc.

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