Post-UTME Chemistry 2016 Objective — Question 3

[Passage: from Camara Laye's 'The African Child' - describes childhood breakfast customs, with the mother enforcing strict rules of conduct and cleanliness at meals (e.g. no talking, no gazing at older guests, only taking food from directly in front of oneself unless given more), even though the father was nominally the head of the household.] Why did the father allow the mother to enforce the meal discipline?

• A. She had a quicker temper than the father
• B. She was the one who cooked the food
• C. She had her own set of rules which she enforcedCorrect
• D. The father was not a disciplinarian