Plot
The chapter begins with two robberies, the second of which was secretly committed by _________.
When the narrator imagines Nnamabia’s dramatic face, knowing he is lying, the author uses _________ irony.
Dramatic
Nnambabia’s family is figuratively _______ to his actions, failing to see the consequences of his behavior.
Blind or Blindness
Nnamabia is arrested because the police rounded up boys they suspected of being members of campus _________.
Cults
The repetition of Nnamabia’s lies and dramatics serves as _________, reinforcing his pattern of charming manipulation.
Characterization
The police in the story are _______ and abuse their power over the convicts.
Corrupted or Corruption
The narrator and her parents visit Nnamabia daily during his imprisonment at the police station in _________.
Enugu
The line “the season of thefts on our serene Nsukka campus” uses the word ‘season’ as a _________ to describe a recurring pattern of wrongdoing.
Both the cultists and the police exhibit _______ , as the cultists cause chaos on campus, and the police respond harshly, affecting innocent students.
Violence
Inside the cell, newcomers must pay money to the cell leader, nicknamed General _________.
Abacha
Nnamabia’s beauty (“honey-fair complexion, large eyes, generous mouth”) is an example of _________ imagery.
Visual
Nnamabia and the cultist are able to escape consequences because of their _______ backgrounds, while less privileged individuals like the Old Man face harsh punishments.
Privelege and Inequal
Nnamabia becomes disturbed after seeing a dead man removed from _________, the most feared cell.
Cell One
The chief benign called “General Abacha” is an example of an _________ to a real Nigerian military ruler.
Allusion
________ was demonstrated as some students were wrongly arrested because the police couldn’t accurately who participated in the cult activities.
Injustice