Post-UTME English Language 2018 Objective — Question 1
Question 1 of 55 from the Post-UTME Screening (Post-UTME) English Language 2018 Objective paper, with the correct answer and a full explanation.
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[Passage: 'Condemned' by Biodun Thomas Nzeren - the narrator is a prisoner woken for his execution, marched out under heavy guard, tied to a stake before a firing squad while a rival, Mbuzu, watches smiling from a pavilion for senior officers. Just as the officer gives the order to fire, the narrator wakes up - it was a dream - and finds his young sister calling him to get up for work.] From the statement 'such a weak state as I had been reduced to' it can be inferred that the narrator
- A. did not have enough sleep
- B. was very tired
- C. had not eaten
- D. had been torturedCorrect
Explanation
The narrator describes being in an unusually weak, reduced physical state while a heavily-guarded prisoner, most consistent with having suffered mistreatment/torture in captivity.
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