Looking For A Rain God

Answer the questions based on the short story.

1. How was the landscape before 1958? How was it after 1958, with the seven-year
drought?
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2. What did the people do to cope with the drought?
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3. Who was Mokgobja?
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4. Why did the Mokgobja and his family move off to the lands?
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5. Why did Ramadi and his family face difficulty in planting crops?
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6. Why did the earth appear to be alive at night?
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7. What did the people do to get food?
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8. How did the two girls spend their leisure hours?
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9. What did the people get from the incanters, charlatans and witch-doctors?
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10. Why did the two women use the thorn-bush to fix hedges to their vast ploughing area?
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11. Why were the adults not interested in what the children were doing?
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12. What did the two women do every night? Why did they behave in such a way?
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13. Why did the two men remain silent and controlled their emotions?
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14. What did the old man remember?
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15. What did the old man do to solve the family’s misery which was caused by the
drought? Who were sacrificed to the rain-god?
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16. What did they do to the bodies?
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17. Why did people become very suspicious?
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18 Why did the mother of the two children break down?
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19. Why did the court sentence the two men to death?
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20. What lessons can we learn from the story?
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