Read the excerpt from "Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe.Of course the doors and windows were missing and five sheets off the roof. But what was that? And anyhow he had returned to Enugu early enough to pick up bits of old zinc and wood and soggy sheets of cardboard lying around the neighbourhood before thousands more came out of their forest holes looking for the same things.

Jonathan goes back to Enugu early and gathers useful scraps of zinc, wood, and cardboard before other people arrive to look for the same materials. This shows that he wants to collect the debris before others do, not that he is helping rebuild other people’s homes. The correct choice is D, “Jonathan returns to Enugu early to collect debris before others in the war-torn area do.”

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