Questions below are based on Bolaji Abdullahi's "Sweet Sixteen" Aliya's sixteenth birthday is special because

Analyze the question: The question is from Sweet Sixteen by Bolaji Abdullahi, a JAMB recommended text. It asks why Aliya's sixteenth birthday is special, so we need the event that sets that birthday apart from her earlier ones.

Concept: In literature questions, the answer is usually the distinctive event the author builds the story around, not a routine detail. Here, that event is what her father gives her to mark her coming of age.

Checking the options:

• A. Birthday cards every year since age twelve would be routine. It would not make the sixteenth birthday special.
• B. This is about Aliya's maturity, but the story's focus is on what her father does for her, not on her ability to understand life stories.
• C. A birthday card and a digital camera are ordinary gifts and are not what the story highlights.
• D. The father's sixteen-page letter, with one page for each year, recounts her life journey up to that point.

Tip: In JAMB literature questions, wrong options often use details that sound plausible, such as cards or gifts, but are not central to the plot. Ask yourself, "What is the unique, memorable event in the story?" The number sixteen appearing in both the title and the letter's length is also a useful clue.