WAEC Literature in English 2011 Objective — Question 29

[Poem] "Here stood our ancestral home / The crumbling wall marks the spot / Here a sheep was led to the slaughter / To appease the gods and atone / For faults which our destiny / Has blossomed into crimes / There my cursed father once stood / And shouted to us, his children / To come back from our play / To our evening meal and sleep." Read the poem and answer questions 26-30. The underlined expression ('The crumbling wall marks the spot') means that

• A. A. they were living in a house with a high wall
• B. B. their building is no longer where it used to beCorrect
• C. C. the children had caused the wall to crumble
• D. D. their father made them pull down the wall