Cockcrow Questions and Answers on The Ripples [Over 70 Ques.]
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Today’s article will cover cockcrow questions and answers on ‘THE RIPPLES written by PETER PAUL ADOLINAMA. It touches on several themes and moral lessons included are young girls being forced to marry people who are far older than them.
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Likely BECE Questions on the cockcrow questions and answers
1. How does Mama Adamu call Abiba for short?
Ans: Abi
2. Where did Mama Adamu call into Abiba into?
Ans: the women’s yard
3. Who was Abiba’s mother?
Ans: Amina
4. How old is Abiba according to the story?
Ans: 14 years
5. What was Amina to Mama Adamu?
Ans. sister
6. Abiba is said to have misconstrued Mama Adamu’s incessant rebukes as.
Ans: Hatred
7. The only emotion Mama Adamu feel towards Abiba is..
Ans: love and above all pity
8. According to Mama Adamu what has Abiba being forced
into?
Ans: unhappy marriage
9. In which town was Mama Adamu?
Ans: Saga
10. How many rivals was Mama Adamu having?
Ans: three
11. Who was Mama Adamu’s husband?
Ans: Sayibu
12. What was Mama Adamu waiting for when she sat the Women’s yard?
Ans:the prospective bride
13. According to Mama Adamu, hovw many ye husband announce his intension of marrying his four years ago did her fourth wife?
Ans: foOurteen years ag0
14. According to the story, why did Sayiba’s wives approve his decision for him to marry his fourth wife?
Ans: AS Custom demanded
15 According to the story, a husband decision was that
Ans: Sacred and not subject to change
BECE Questions on The Ripples
16 The expression “if a dog bites man it is not news, it is when a man bites a dog that it is news” is…
Ans: proverbs
17. Who was Sayibu’s first wife
Ans: Mama Adamu
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18. What are some of the major themes in the story Ripples?
i. The evils of forced marriage
ii. The effects of early marriage
iii. The negative impacts of polygamy
iv. Male dominance in a polygamous home
V. Outmoded culture and superstitious practices
19. Who according to the story is well known throughout Saga?
Ans: Sayibu
20. What is the full name of Sayibu
Ans: Sayibu Mba
21. What did Sayibu’s fame rested purely on?
Ans: his wealth, personal achievement and his reputation for marrying beautiful girls
22. Who were the people that Sayibu mostly do not have
Ans: Amina
23. Who according to the story had lived in perpetual fear Sayibu’s fiery temper
Ans: his wives
24. Which marriage feast became the top of the town for months of patience from?
Ans: marriage ceremony between Sayibu and
25. What didn’t Sayibu mind doing?
Ans: flaunting his worth
26. In Sayibu and Amina’s marriage ceremony, everybody was happy except
Ans: the bride
27. Howv many goats were used for the marriage ceremony between Sayibu and Amina?
Ans: five
28. Who said I can’t live on the bank of river and wash my hands with spittle
Ans: Sayibu
29. Who is the head of Sayibu’s family?
Ans: Sayibu’s uncle
30. Who prayed at Sayibu and Amina’s marriage ceremony?
Ans: Sayibu’s uncle
31. Who is said to be the exact replica of her mother
Ans: Abiba
Questions on ‘The Ripples’
32. What did Abiba inherited from her mother?
Ans: long legs, small eyes and masculine beauty
33. How did Amina died
Ans: she died after giving birth to Abiba
34. Who was asked to bring Abiba up when her mother died?
Ans: Mama Adamu
35. What assignment was given to the elders regarding Amina’s death?
Ans: They were asked to consult the god’s and find out
“if anyone had a hand in Amina’s death”
36. Who did the families of Amina blame her death on?
Ans: on their enemies who envied their daughter
37. Who was said to be a big catch?
Ans: Sayibu mba
38. What did the family of Amina totally ignored?
Ans: the post-mortem result
39. What was the result of Amina’s post-mortem?
Ans: that she died as a result of the immaturity of her reproductive organs.
According to the story, who is the oldest surviving member of Sayibu’s family,
Ans: Sayibu’s uncle
41. What is the name of Sayibu’s third wife?
Ans: Safia
42. How did Amina’s family treat Safia since Amina’s death?
Ans: like an outcast
43. For two years, which factions mostly quarrel Sayibu’s house?
Ans: Amina and Safia
44. Amina came into the marriage only… … years after Safia
Ans: two years.
45. Who wished that everybody would stop staring at her as though she has suddenly grown two heads”
Ans: Safia
46. What was the message of the gods concerning Amina’s death?
Ans: it was our daughter’s destiny to die young
47. What has Abiba become to Mama Adamu?
Ans: granddaughter
48. After how many days of sickness did Mama Adamu recovered?
Ans: three days
49. What gift did Mam Adamu give to Abiba at the age of fourteen?
Ans: Her mother’s dairy
50. What fate was Abiba destined to have…
s: to suffer the ame fate as her grandmother
51. Who was the father of Amina?
Ans: Yaro
Literature Questions on the cockcrow for BECE candidates
52. Who was the eldest and only female child of Yaro?
Ans: Amina
53. For how many years has Yaro left Amina’s mother?
Ans: three years
54. What is the name of Amina’s youngest sibling?
Ans: Yusif
55. Who is Amina’s mother?
Ans: Yareba
56. What did Yaro use to shirk his responsibilities as a father?
Ans: religion
57. Who was the head teacher of Abiba’s primary school?
Ans: Mr. Ambrose Yakubu
58. What has Mr. Ambrose Yakubu been waging war on….
Ans: the practice of adult men marrying young girl.
59. What is the name of Mr. Ambrose Yakubu’s daughter?
Ans: Jamila
60. With the help of which two institutions was Mr. Ambrose Yakubu to save Abiba?
Ans: The police and officers from the social welfare department.
61. According to the story, what is the only thing Abi had inherited from her matrilineal family?
Ans: a gloomy destiny
62. How many men came to Abi’s father with Mr. Ambrose Yakubu?
Ans: three men
63. Who is the main character or the protagonist in the Ripples?
Ans: Abiba
64. From what point of view was the Ripples narrated?
Ans: third person narrative
65. What figure of speech is found in the expression accept her destiny like stoic?
Ans: Simile
66. The Expression” she loves Ama like the sister she never had” is an example…
Ans: Simile
67.What figure of specech is in the lite ” she carried all the troubles of the whole world on her shoulder?
Ans: Hyperbole/Exaggeration/Over statement
68. The following expression brings out what literary device?
Whole world half-heartedly long-legs
Ans: Alliteration
69. What literary device is in the expression “I just wish that everyone would stop staring at me as though I have got two heads?
Ans: Simile
70. The statement “his back was worse than his bite” is an example of the literary device….
Ans: Metaphor
71. We rumour surrounded Abi’s future husband?
Ans: He was irresponsible, a loafer and stingy
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