Post-UTME English Language 2016 Objective — Question 4

[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.] The theme of this passage

• A. portrays the father as very strict
• B. describes the narrator as greedy
• C. describes the food as very delicious
• D. portrays the mother as a disciplinarianCorrect