*Try the following questions:*
1. What three suitable attributes can personify the narrator's role in the prose?
2(a) In your perspective, do you think Gabriella is to be blamed for her own death?
(b) Give your reason(s).
3. What kind of woman can you describe Madam Sussan as?
4. In what two ways did Margann influence the narrator's life?
5. How did the narrator lose her way?
6. Who was Emerald to the narrator?
7. What self-defence technique did the narrator adopt in escaping sexual assault from Nelson?
8. "...once in a lifetime, one has to be bad for good reasons."*
(a) Who made this statement?
(b) What figure of speech is evident in the above statement?
9. Mention at least five things the narrator desperately needed money for.
10.How old was the narrator when she retook her JAMB exam?
11. For what two reasons did the narrator travel to Delta State?
12.(a) Do you think that Lady B's death was her nemesis?
(b) Give your reason(s).
13.Aside from becoming a lawyer, what other dreams was the narrator able to achieve according to the prose?
14."…no matter how reckless and wayward a daughter might have been, a true mother would always be tolerant".
Do you have an assertion on this statement? Discuss.
15. Give a concise contrast about the narrator's life in her hometown and in the city.
16. In your perspective, why do you think the narrator was more friendly with the girls working under Madam Sussan than with the girls working under Lady B?
17. What is the narrator's full name?
18. What possible fear could have made the narrator need someone to stay with her at Lady B's house after she was murdered?
19. According to the prose, why does the narrator cherish her parents?
20. Why do you think the narrator never wanted to have an intimate relationship with Frank at first?
21. What attribute did the narrator say to have gotten from her mother?
22. At what point in her life did the narrator take heed to the last advice her mother gave her before her departure to the city?
23. What was the content of the narrator's letter to Frank?
24.(a) Do you think that Aunty Jane partly contributed to one of the problems the narrator faced in the prose?
(b) Give your reason(s).
25. Give three instances that showed that the narrator was academically brilliant?
26. "Pride of womanhood" as regards to the prose refers to what?
27. In one sentence, differentiate the reason the narrator and her friend Gabriella went into 'screw driving business'.
28. What figure of speech is significant in this statement: "Lady B herself threw a small party for me – what I called JAMB jamboree"?
29. Briefly describe Alex.
30. Why did the narrator miss her matriculation day?
31. Where and when did Frank propose to the narrator?
32. What does Madam Sussan like about the narrator?
33. What was the health condition of Maryann's father?
34. What was the narrator's occupation?
35. What trick did the narrator apply to deceive the man she met at the brothel?
36. What excuse did Madam Sussan give for not paying the narrator well at work?
37. What five intrinsic and positive values can one emulate from the book "Ablaze", and mention those that exhibited them accordingly?
38. In not less than three pages, summarize the prose.