PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A? “The following days, he was more subdued. He spoke less, and mostly about the old man: how he could not afford bathing water, how the others made fun of him or accused him of hiding his son” (Paragraph 32)

“He closed the container of rice and turned to my father. ‘I want to give him some of this, but if I bring it into the cell the chief will take it.’” (Paragraph 37)

“Two policemen were flogging a man with koboko as we drove into the police station. At first, I thought it was Nnamabia, and then I thought it was the old man from his cell.” (Paragraph 42)

“And I imagined the old man himself looking on with surprised pride and quietly refusing to undress. Nnamabia did not say what had happened to him in Cell One, or what happened at the new site.” (Paragraph 67)
PART A: How does meeting the old man in prison most affect Nnamabia?

Question 9 options:

It makes Nnamabia understand the extent of injustice present in the prison system

It angers Nnamabia to know that he and the old man have been wrongly imprisoned.

It makes Nnamabia ashamed of his actions that rightly landed him in prison while the man is clearly innocent.

It causes Nnamabia to realize how lucky he is that he has money and the support of his family.