Read the following passage carefully and then answer the questions which follow. At the beginning of the century also, the British administration, after the control of malaria by quinine and the resettlement of whites on high ground at Hill Station. decided to change its policy of appointing Krios to high posts and appointed Europeans instead. some of them with lower qualifications. The religious societies also seemed to have lost faith in Krio leadership in the Church and sent out white missionaries to replace them in Sierra Leone and in Nigeria under the ageing black Bishop Crowther, the first black bishop since the Reformation. Thus, with economic power lost to the British and Lebanese merchants. civil and religious leadership lost to the British and with a strained relationship between them and the provincial people. the Krios have been a beleaguered community since the 1900s. In 1926 they even lost the cherished control and mayoralty of Freetown which they had held since the 1790s regaining it only after about three decades of petitioning. But their passion for education and Protestantism remained. Their teachers and clergymen at the Freetown secondary schools with degrees from Durham University with which the local Fourah Bay college had been affiliated in the 1870s maintained a high standard in Freetown and were in demand in neighbouring territories in the Gambia. Ghana and Nigeria, especially in northern Nigeria, where they served under Lord Luguard as both senior and junior officers. A clerk there was the main character in a novel Mr. Johnson written in that era by the late author Joyce Cary. (a) Give one word that could replace each of the following in the passage. (i) ageing; (ii) beleaguered; (iii) cherished; (iv) petitioning; (v) affiliated; (vi) era (b) In two sentences state why it is necessary to resettle the whites on the high ground. (c) Give three areas in which the Krios found themselves discriminated against. (d) Give two reasons which show that the Krios were determined people: (e) Write down the clauses you can see in the first sentence of the passage.
Explanation
(a)A word or phrase that could replace (0 Ageing - Old, obsolete (ii) beleaguered - besieged, (iii) cherished - treasured, valued (iv) petitioning - appealing, earnest pleading, protest, complaint. (v) affiliated joined, attached (vi) era - period, time (b) (i) It is necessary to resettle the whites on the high ground in order to (i) remove them from the lowland where mosquitoes are densely populated. (ii) to match their new posts (c) Three areas in which the Krios found themselves discriminated against are: (1) economic (2) political (3) religious (d) Two reasons which show that the Krios were deter-mined people are (I) They regained the lost control and mayoralty of Freetown. (ii) Their undying passion and love for education and Protestantism remained (e) (1) The British administration decided to change its policy of appointing Krios to high posts. (2) The British administration appointed Europeans instead, some of them with lower qualifications.
