RC Drill Set 2, Question 3
Studying West African symbol systems may clarify some(460 more words not shown)
In the passage, the author(9 more words not shown)
- Astudied Egyptian hieroglyphics(19 more words not shown)
- Bdeveloped a system(16 more words not shown)
- Cproduced history texts(11 more words not shown)
- Ddeveloped a writing(22 more words not shown)
- Edeveloped his system(14 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Njoya is the inventor of the Bamum system. The third paragraph gives the relevant actions: he asked his subjects for drawings and names, used those pictures, revised the system, and put it into use. Keep his activities separate from the writer's later comparison with Egypt.
Working the answers
- A
No study of Egyptian hieroglyphics by Njoya is described.
- B
He developed his system for Bamum, not Ekoi. Ekoi appears among the languages whose speakers use Nsibidi.
- C
Njoya did compile history texts, but we aren't told that they clarified a relationship between Egyptian hieroglyphics and Nsibidi. That added purpose isn't established by the true detail about histories.
- D
We aren't told that Bamum previously used Arabic script or that Njoya replaced it with a system better suited to local traditions.
- ECorrect
He asked his subjects to “draw and name different objects” and then used their pictures. Their contributions therefore provided some of the material for his invention.
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