"Ghosts" Reading Comprehension Questions

Front

Inference about Nwoye from the first paragraph:

Back

Believes superstitions indicate unintelligence.

Front

“Ghosts” is told in the _____________tense, from a ___________point of view.

Back

past; first-person

Front

Nyerere is most likely _______ based on the passage.

Back

a radical philosopher

Front

Nwoye's statement about church attendance: "I stopped going after Ebere first visited, because I was no longer uncertain. It is our diffidence about the afterdeath that leads us to religion."

Back

His dead wife’s visits gave him the faith that most people seek at church.

Front

Inference supported by paragraph 58:

Back

Nwoye maintains a calm, philosophical attitude about the fallout of the civil war in Nigeria.

Front

Line supporting the answer to Question 5:

Back

“Perhaps nothing would have changed even if we had won.”

Front

Nwoye's attitude in paragraph 70:

Back

Nwoye has not thought of Josephat with anything but contempt for a long time, surprised to remember him.

Front

Sentence supporting Question 7:

Back

“I felt a strange gratitude that Ikenna’s memories were frozen at a time when I still thought Josephat to be a man of integrity.”