Lion and the jewel

Question 1

Sidi feels pretty

Answer 1

My name is Sidi, and I am beautiful. The stranger took my beauty And placed it in my hands.

Question 2

Bale thinks Sidi is vain and stupid- but he also wants to marry her

Answer 2

To think that once I thought, Sidi is the eye’s delight, but She is vain, and her head Is feather-light, and always giddy with a trivial thought. And now I find her deep and wise beyond her years.

Question 3

Women are mentally inferior, right?

Answer 3

“… as a woman, you have a smaller brain than mine.”

Question 4

Would Sidi marry Lakunle?

Answer 4

‘I should marry you today (…) but my bride price must first be paid’.

Question 5

Lakunle wants Sidi to be a

Answer 5

a “modern wife”

Question 6

Sidi talking about her clothes

Answer 6

(Talking about her clothes) Sidi: …Is it Sidi who makes the men choke In their cups, or you, with your big loud words And no meaning?

Question 7

Why wont Lakunle pay the bride price?

Answer 7

Lakunle: Ignorant girl, can you not understand? To pay the price would be To buy a heifer off the market stall.

Question 8

Why Baroka wants to marry Sidi from her perspective

Answer 8

Sidi: Baroka merely seeks to raise his manhood Above my beauty He seeks new fame As the one man who has possessed The jewel of Ilujinle!

Question 9

Sidi: Piss off Lakunle

Answer 9

Sidi: Well go there. Go to these places where Women would understand you If you told them of your plans with which You oppress me daily.

Question 10

Lakunle declaring his love

Answer 10

Lakunle: Wasted! Wasted! Sidi, my heart Bursts into flowers with my love. But you, you and the dead of this village Trample it with feet of ignorance.

Question 11

Good to be a woman

Answer 11

“…I suddenly am glad to be a woman. We won! We won! Hurray for womankind!”

Question 12

Sidi doesnt want to marry Lakunle because hes poor and ugly

Answer 12

Sidi says to Lakunle: “In fact, I am not sure I’ll want to marry you now.
Well why should I?
Known as I am to the whole wide world, I would demean my worth to wed
A mere village school teacher.’

Question 13

Baroka on why its good Sidi turned him down

Answer 13

“Yes, faithful one, I say it as well. The scorn, the laughter and jeers Would have been bitter. Had she consented and my purpose failed, I would have sunk with shame.”

Question 14

Sidi asks the musicians at end to …

Answer 14

Sidi asking the musicians “to sing to me of seeds of children, sired of the lion stock”

Question 15

big tree

Answer 15

‘odan tree’

Question 16

Lakunle description

Answer 16

His ‘old-style English suit’, a ‘size or two too small’, and his ‘twenty-three-inch- bottom trousers’, makes him look ridiculous.

Question 17

Baroka’s demeanour

Answer 17

a ‘fox’

Question 18

Sadiku crowing

Answer 18

“…Race of mighty lions, we always consume you, at our whim we make you dance; like the foolish top you think the world revolves around you…fools! Fools!… it is you who are giddy while we stand still and watch, and draw your frail thread from you, slowly, till nothing is left but a runty old stick…Take a warning my masters / We’ll scotch you in the end.”

Question 19

Baroka’s eyes

Answer 19

‘small and always red with wine’.

Question 20

Yeah Sidi was raped, but…

Answer 20

I will admit, /it solves the problem of the bride-price too. /A man must live or fall by his true/Principles. That, I had sworn, /Never to pay.”

Question 21

Bale, do you hate progress?

Answer 21

‘I do not hate progress, only its nature/ Which makes all roofs and faces look the same.’

Question 22

so what will your love do for me??

Answer 22

“my love will open your mind / Like the chaste lead in the morning, when / The sun first touches it”

Question 23

Who wants an innuendo about Lakunle? Everyone!!!

Answer 23

“I see you dip your hand / Into the pockets of the school teacher / And retrieve it bulging with knowledge” (50).

Question 24

Innuendo about Baroka

Answer 24

“old wine thrives best / Within a new bottle” (54).

Question 25

Baroka’s face

Answer 25

“But he—his face is like a leather piece / Torn rudely from the saddle of his horse” (22).

Question 26

Lakunle dont know Inglish

Answer 26

Lakunle describes the custom of paying a bride price as “excommunicated” or “redundant,”

Question 27

When English is hard

Answer 27

Sidi tells Lakunle scornfully that his words “always sound the same/and make no meaning.”

Question 28

The dance with Lakunle in

Answer 28

“The Dance of the Lost Traveller”.