These questions are based on Literary Appreciation'That year the harvest was sad, like a funeral and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. On...

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation'That year the harvest was sad, like a funeral and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. One man tied his clothe to a tree branch and hanged himself.

Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart.

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