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Paper 3
Drama and poetry
[100 marks]
Section A
African Drama
Answer only two (2) questions from this section, one from each play.
Dele Charley: The blood of a stranger
1. Who in your opinion is the hero of this play and why?
[10 marks]
2. Think about the role of money in the play. How does it affect difference
character? [10 marks]
3. How does the play instruct our society to receive stranger.
[10 marks]
Frank Ogdo Ogbeche: Harvest of corruption
4. Justify the fate that befalls Aloho at the end of the play.
5. Discuss chief Haladu’s activities as a pen-robber.
[10 marks]
6. In details, examine the character of Ogeyi Oga as a human right
crusader. [10 marks]

Section B
Non-African Drama
Answer only two (2) questions from this section, one from each play.
Oliver Goldsmith: She stoops to Conquer
7. How does the play help us to acknowledge a truth of who were?
[10 marks]
8. What makes “She stoops to conquer” a comedy of error?
[10 marks]
Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun
9. What is Mama’s dream for the family? How is it different or
similar to Walter dream for the family?
[10 marks]
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10. Discuss the tittle of the play. How does it relate to the
dream of each of the characters?
[10 marks]
11. What are the most important factors determining
characters’ choices? [10 marks]

Section C
African Poetry
Answer any four questions from this section.
Vanity: Birago Diop
12. Discuss the use of rhetorical question in the poem ‘vanity”.
[10 marks]
Ambush: Ghemisola Adeoti
13. Closely examine the view that “Ambush is a serious a
poem”. [10 marks]
14. Do you consider the tittle of the poem appropriate? Provide
reasons. [10 marks]
Piano and Drum: Gabriel Okara
15. Discuss the poet attitude in the poem.
[10 marks]
16. Discuss the use of symbolism in Okara’s piano and drum.
[10 marks]
The Dining Table: Gbanabam Hallowell
17. Discuss briefly the setting of the poem.
[10 marks]
18. Discuss dining table as a criticism of war and the
despoliation of war. [10 marks]
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The Panic of growing Older: Lenrie Peters

19. Discuss the panic of growing older as a criticism of man’s striving
on earth. [10 marks]
20. Show vividly that “the panic of growing older “is pessimistic
poem. [10 marks]

Section D
Non-African Poetry
Answer all questions in this section

21. Comment on the use of pun in Herbert’s the pulley.

[10 marks]
22. Examine the theme endurance in Robert Frost’s Birches
[10 marks]

End of Paper 2