Question

Read the excerpt from ‘Maternity’ and answer the following questions:
Of all of them, Mikali alone could do nothing. He ate the stale bread which his neighbours cared to offer and it weighed on him. For he was a big lad of fourteen, healthy and robust. But how could he thi9nk of looking for work when he literally bore on his back the burden of a new-born babe? Since his birth, which had caused his mother’s death, he had wailed proclaiming his famished state from morn till night. Who would have accepted Mikali’s services when his own compatriots had chased him from their quarters because they were unable to bear the uninterrupted howls which kept them awake at night.Mikali himself was dazed by these cries; his head was empty and he wandered about like a lost soul, dying from lack of sleep and weariness, always dragging about with him the deafening burden that had been born for his misfortune its own and that had so badly chosen the moment to appear on this earth. Everybody listened to it with irritation they had so many troubles of their own and they all pitifully wished it would die.
1. Answer the following: 5 a. What was the burden that Mikali bore on his back?
b. What was kept Mikali’s compatriots awake at night?
c. Why couldn’t Mikali earn even a penny?
d. Why did the refugees wish that the child would die?
e. Pick out a word from the passage which means ‘fellow countryme

Answer 1

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