Three days later the District Commissioner sent his sweet-tongued messenger to the leaders of Umuofia
asking them to meet him in his headquarters. That was also not strange. He often asked them to hold such
palavers, as he called them. Okonkwo was among the six leaders he invited. Okonkwo warned the others to
be fully armed. "An Umuofia man does not refuse a call," he said. "He may refuse to do what he is asked, he
does not refuse to be asked. But the times have changed, and we must be fully prepared."
Based on the context in which it appears, what does the word palaver most likely mean in this excerpt?
public execution
lavish ceremony
casual and lighthearted meeting
discussion among different peoples

answer; ///(a) and (c) newspaper article and instruction manual; //so the answer is (e)

reading poetry is challenging when you don't have or very little of social context and culture schema.

solution: read the introduction, the norm, or even explaination if you still dont get it.

everyman: morality play

which phrase in this excerpt from the play everyman refers to god's judgment of people's souls after their death?

messenger: . .

ye think sin in the beginning full sweet,

which in( the end) causeth thy soul to weep,

when the body lieth in clay.

here shall you see how fellowship and jollity,

both strength, pleasure, and beauty,

will fade from thee as flower in may.

for ye shall hear, how our heavenly king

calleth everyman to a (general reckoning):

give audience, and hear what he doth say.

god: i perceive here in my majesty,

how that all the creatures be to me unkind,

living without dread in worldly prosperity:

of (ghostly sight) the people be so blind,

drowned in sin, they know me not for their god;

in worldly riches is all their mind,

they fear not( my righteousness), the sharp rod;

(my law that i shewed), when i for them die

hopefully this !