By Elimu Assistant Team 
Read the following oral poem and answer the questions that follow.
After a brief struggle I got myself
A job
My food was meat and banana
flour
A hundred cents a month and
soon I had some money.
Soon afterwards I bought myself
A beautiful girl
My heart was telling time this
was a fortune
So heart you were deceiving
me and I believed you
On a Saturday morning as I was
leaving work
I was thinking I was being
awaited at home
But on arrival I couldn’t find my bride
Nor was she in her parents home
I ran fast to the river valley;
What I saw gave me a shock.
There was my wife conversing
with her lovers.
I sat and silently wept.
I realized there is no luck in this world.
People aren’t trustworthy and
will never be!
QUESTIONS
- (a) Place this song in its appropriate genre. (2 Marks)
- (b) State and illustrate two functions of this song. (4 Marks)
- (c) What evidence is there to show that this is an Oral Poem? (4 Marks)
- (d) Explain briefly what the poem is about. (2 Marks)
- (e) Give any two character traits of the singer. (4 Marks)
- (f) Identify and illustrate two economic activities practiced by the society in the song. (4 Marks)
