Read the excerpt from civil peace by chinua achebe. what can you most clearly determine

Read the excerpt from "civil peace" by chinua achebe.
what can you most clearly determine about the story's
setting from this excerpt?
jonathan lwegbu counted himself extraordinarily lucky.
"happy survival! " meant so much more to him than just a
current fashion of greeting old friends in the first hazy days of
peace. it went deep to his heart. he had come out of the war
with five inestimable blessings—his head, his wife maria's
head and the heads of three out of their four children. as a
bonus he also had his old bicycle-a miracle too but
naturally not to be compared to the safety of five human
heads.
the story takes place right before a war.
the story takes place in the middle of a war.
the story takes place right after a war.
the story takes place years before the start of a war.