POETRY QUESTIONS
1. One major theme in Lade worsonu‟s “Raider
of the treasure Trove” is ____ (a) the quest
for a spiritual rebirth (b) the ultimate goal of 15. In Augustino Neto‟s “The Grieved Lands of
existence (c) living the poor (d) magical
powers
2. The subject matter of “Raider of the Treasure
trove” is (a) The destructive power of rage
(b) love of nature (c) Man as a happy
creature (d) the need to be patient
3. “Rage is thief” in “Raider of the Treasure
Throve” Exemplifies (a) Synecdoche (b)
Apostrophe (c) metaphor (d) metonymy
4. “In “The Raider of the Treasure Trove” The
expression “rage spreads toxic fumes on
every scene exemplifies (a) personification
(b) metaphor (c) apostrophe (d) Litotes
5. The poem exemplifies _____ (a) Sonnet (b)
dramatic monologue (c) Epic (d) Panegyric
6. In “A Government Driver on his retirement
by Chibuike Onu, the expression “undented
thirty five years” exemplifies (a) synaesthesia 20. In Leopold Sedar Senghor‟s “Black
(b) antonomasia (c) Paronomasia (d) pon
7. In a Government driver on his Retirement the
expression “today frees and makes me a
king” is an example of (a) alliteration (b)
consonance (c) Onomatopeia (d)
Personification
8. In A Government Driver on his Retirement
“pummeled his boozy throat” exemplifies (a)
personification 9b) metaphor (c) Euphemism
(d) Synaesthesia
9. One major device in the poem irony “A
Government Driver on His Retirement” is
(a) Irony (b) Pathetic fallacy (c) Euphemism
(d) Paradox
10. In “the song of the women of my Land” by
Oumar Farouk sesay, the predominant tone is
(a) lamentation 9b) elation (c) optimism (d)
approval
11. In “The song of the women of my land” the
expression “Dirge of their lives” is a/an (a)
oxymoron (b) litotes (c) paradox
12. The physical setting of the song of the
women of my land is (A) Nigeria (b) Sierra-
Leone (c) Cameroon (d) Ghana
13. In “the song of the women of my land” the
expression “a song to sing the story” of their
lives is an example of ___ (a) Onomatopoeia
(b) Alliteration (c) pun (d) synaesthesia
14. The temporal setting of Oumar Farooks
“The song of the women of my land is (a) the
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present (b) distant past (c) 21st century (d)
20th century
Africa”, the subject matter is (a) Colonial
oppression (b) bad leadership in Africa (c)
Love for power (d) Greed.
16. The Grieved Land of Africa was originally
written in (a) Chinese (b) Portuguese (c)
Dutch (d) French
17. The expression “Wickedness of iron and
fire” In Grieved Lands of Africa” is an
example of (a) personification (b) metaphor
(c) synecdoche (d) oxymoron
18. In the victorious Voices of laments” In
“The Grieved lands of Africa” _____ is
expressed (a) fear (b) Hope (c) anger (d)
hatred
19. The form of repetition predominantly used
is (a) parallelism (b) refrain (c) Epiphora (d)
Anaphora
woman,” The physical setting is (a) Africa
(b) India (c) Forest (d) Europe
21. The subject matter of “Black woman” is (a)
The beauty of Africa (b) the Beauty of
nature (c) Love of women (d) positive
impact of women
22. Black woman is a/an____ (a) romantic
poetry (b) negritude poem (c) Epithalamion
(d) Hayiology
23. Black woman is a/an (a) panegyric poem
(b) Ode (c) sonnet (d) Ballad
24. The poem black woman is made
memorable with the use for (A) sensual
imagery 9b) Narration (c) Argumentation (d)
personification
25. In Niyi Osundare, “The leaders and the
led”, the physical setting is (a) forest (b) the
zoo (c) the city (d) the village
26. In the leaders and the led, the predominant
device is (a) metaphor (b) Personification (c)
Oxymoron 9d) Antithesis
27. In “The leaders and the led” the expression
“And the pack thrashes around like a snake
without a head” exemplifies (a) simile (b)
Pun (c) Pathetic fallary (d) zeugma
28. “Rhino are too riotous” in the leaders and
the led exemplify (a) assonance (b)
alliteration (c) consonance (d) onomatopoeia
29. In the leaders and the led, the warthog
isdescribed as (a)riotous (b) ugly (c) having
spiritual powers (d) lovely
30. The physical setting of Donne‟s “Good
morrow” is (a) America (b) Italy (c) England
(d) France
31. “Good Morrow” is an example of _______
(a) dramatic poem (b) dramatic monologue
(c) epithalamion (d) Sonnet
32. One of the predominant devices in “Good
morrow” is (a) Simile (b) Hyperbole (c)
onomatopoeia 9d) Antonomasia
33. “Seven sleepers den” in Donne‟s Good
morrow” is both (a) Biblical and classical (b)
historical and classical (c) classical and
literary 9d) Biblical and historical
34. The rhyme scheme of each stanza of
Donne‟s “Good morrow” is (a) ABABCCC
(b) ABBBCCC (c) AABBAAA (d)
AAACCDC
35. In Maya Angelou‟s “Caged Bird” the poet
uses ______ (a) narrative method (b)
argumentative style (c) descriptive story
telling style (d) dramatic style
36. “leaps” and stalks” in Caged bird exemplify
(a) Visual imagery (b) kinaesthetic imagery
(c) Tactile imagery (d) Thermal imagery
37. “And trade winds soft through the sighing
trees” in “caged Bird” exemplify (a) simile
(b) personification (c) Assonance (d) Pon
38. The dictions in Angelous “Caged Bird” are
(a) observant (b)imagistic (c) poetry
conversational (d) tactile
39. The tone in Angelus caged Bird is (a)
reflective (b) Vengeful (c) Approval (d)
non-commital
40. The general physical setting of “Bat” by
D.H. Lawrence is (A) Italy (b) China (c)
America (d) Spain
41. The immediate physical setting of Bat is (a)
at a terrace 9b) in the forest (c) on the rock
(d) in the market
42. In “Bat” tired flowers of Florence?
Exemplifies (a) metaphor 9b)
personification (c) oxymoron (d) Irony
43. _____ is a symbol of happiness in China
(a) swallows (b) Bat (c) Sparrows (d)
Vultures
44. “Wings like bits of Umbrella” in
Lawrence‟s Bat is an example of (a)
Metaphor (b) Simile (c) Hyperbole (d)
Personification
45. “Smelling of vegetation” as used in T.S.
Elliot‟s “Journey of the magi exemplifies
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____ (a) visual magery (b) olfactory imagery
(c) Tactile imagery (d) audiotry imagery
46. The dictions used in the poem Journey of
the Magi are (a) argumentative (b)
descriptive (c) Conversational and narrative
(c) Dramatic (d) obscre
47. “Were we led all that way for. Birth or
Death? Is an example of (a) rhetorics (b)
rhetorical question (c) hyperbole (d) simile
48. “Cold coming.” In the Journey of the magi
is an example of (a) alliteration (b) Pun (c)
assonance (d) synaesthesia
49. The physical setting of the poem is (a)
Europe (b) Middle East,Palistine (c) Asia
(d) Africa
50. In the poem “Do Not Go gentle into That
Good Night, by Dylan Thomas, the repetition
found is (a) Paralellism (b) epiphora (c)
refrain (d) epanalepsis
51. “Words had forked no lightening” in “Do
not go gentle into that good night” is an
example of (a) personification (b) litotes (c)
Hyperbole (d) Synecdoche
52. “Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be
gay” is an example of ____ (a) Simile (b)
metaphor (c) Irony (d) litotes
53. Whose “words had forked no lightening” in
Do not go Gentle into that Good night? (a)
The wise men (b) Wild men (c) God men
(d) Grave men
54. Which set of people believe in the concept
of carpe diem? (a) the wise men (b) the good
men (c) the wild men (d) the grave men
55. The temporal sitting of “Binsey poplars by
Gerard Hopikin is (a) 19th century (b) 20th
century (c) 17th century (d) 18th century
56. The physical setting of “Binsey poplars” is
(a) Britain (b) America (c) middle East 9d)
Italy
57. One major theme in”Binsey poplars” is (a)
environmental vandalism (b) Love for trees
(c) Industrial revolution 9d) The ugly side of
nature
58. The poem can be described as(a) an elegy
on landscape (b) a panegyric poem (c) an ode
(d) an epic on nature
59. ____ is one of the themes in the poem (a)
orderliness of nature (b) hatred for
industrialization (c) love for leadership (d)
none of the above
60. The aspen trees were felled in a) 1979
b)1879 c) 1880 d 1949
 GENERAL POINTS ON THE SELECTED TEXTS AND POEMS
1. Travis at the exposition demanded 50
cents
2. The heir apparent to Mando is kindo
3. The new Negro Movement that inspired
the writing of Harlem which further gave
rise to A Raisin in the Sun is Harlem
Renaissance
4. The proud king has a total of 849 lines
The proud king is written in 119 stanzas
5. The stanzas in Anvil and the Hammer
are contrasting
6. The setting of piano and Drums is
village, at a riverside
7. Crossing the Bar has 4 stanzas
8. The tone in Birches is quite
conversational
9. The setting of the proud king is medieval 39. A song freely improvised with a tropical
10. A Raisin in the sun was published after
second World War.
11. The tone in The panic of Growing older
is passive
12. Gbemisola‟s Ambush has
Four stanzas
13. Piano and Drums is written in 29 lines
14. Vanity is written in thirty lines
15. Piano and Drums has four stanzas
16. Birches is made up of 59 lines
17. Lenrie peters is a Gambian writer
18. The tone of the panic of growing older is 44. It is said that Ajumobi did not die
calm
19. The panic of growing older has Eight
stanzas
20. Birches is written in blank verse
21. Which poem gave Things fall Apart its
title? Second coming.
22. The ale house in She Stoops to Conquer
is called Three Pegions
23. The text published after the death of the 49. Senator Brabantio‟s brother in the text is
writer is said to be posthumous
24. In Birches, the persona hopes to escape
travails by means of climbing birches
25. Kofi Awoonor wrote (a) school Boy b)
Anvil and the Hammer
26. Vanity projects the idea of negritude
27. The writing of Birches was inspired by
the writing of Lucy Larcom
28. A fairly short composition in prose
expressing the writer‟s point of view is
called essay
29. One major inevitable feature of the short 55. The School Boy is written in six stanzas
story is urgency of message
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30. Flat character is a good feature of the
novel
31. A novel on doctrines or ideas is Roman
a these
32. The act and practices of writing poetry is
called poesy
33. To make a claim on someone else‟s work
is known as plagiarism
34. A work of literature in which the theme
is purely religious and ethical serio comic
35. A speech that moves the hearers
emotionally is known as pathopoeia
36. The exact handwriting or signature of a
writer is called penmanship
37. Artistic literature is called belle letters
38. A night song of love is called serenade
or satirical meaning is known as
(a)Tralala(b) calypso
40. An artistic Device of going adrift from
the story line is called digression
41. Items easily moveable in the theatre are
called props
42. The action in Greek drama wherein the
chorus come forward to address the
audience is called parabasis
43. Yaremi walks...... miles to the market
everyday .... 3
like...a) Aku the firewood cutter b) Kolade,
the farmer
45. ......died and was buried at illoro ...... Aku
46. Yaremi‟s life is compared to a fire
47. As the story opens, Bigger Thomas
wakes with the sound of the alarm
48. The cross in Native son presents a
contrast to the Christian world
Gratiano
50. Desdemona‟s cousin in the text is
Lodovico
51. The only white man in A Raisin in the
sun is Mr Karl Lindner
52. Castle of Otranto belongs to a genre form
of Gothic Romance
53. The beauty of a work of Art is called
Aesthetics
54. She Stoops to Conquer has the temporal
setting of 18th century
56. The school Boy is made up of.... 30 lines
57. The rhyme scheme of The School Boy is
ababb
58. Wole Soyinka is a well known dramatist
59. What marks a tragedy? grandeur
60. Bobo in A Raisin in the sun is said to be
as dull as his name.
61. Walter Lee is a Chauffeur
62. The Nobel Prize for Literature is
awarded by Swedish Academy
63. The first African to win the Nobel Price
for Literature is Wole Soyinka
64. One who wins the Nobel Prize for
Literature is a Nobel Laureate
65. Native son was published in 1940
66. Lonely Days was published in 2006
67. Harvest of Corruption was published in
1997
68. Contrast is the overriding device used in
Shall I compare To a summes day
POINTS ON THE SELECTED TEXTS
Novel: The Castle of Otranto
Genre type... Gothic romance
Published..... 1764
Writer. ..Horace Walpole
Characters....
Manfred.... Prince of the castle of Otranto
Don Ricardo.............Manfred‟s father
Hipollita... Manfred‟s wife
Matilda... Their daughter ....just 18 years
Bianca. ..Matilda‟s servant
Conrad... Their Son
Isabella... Frederic‟s daughter... Conrad‟s
wife to be
Fredric..............Marquiz of vicenza
Theodore... Son of friar Jerome....He
later married Matilda
Friar Jerome.....formerly prince of falconara
but now a priest
Alfonso the Good.....former ruler of the
castle of otranto....the helmet on his statue
killed Conrad on his wedding day
Physical setting... Castle of otranto
Temporal setting .....Medieval period
translated from an Italian story
Subject matter.... Inordinate ambition
MAJOR POINTS
 There is an ancient prophecy that says
when the real owners of the castle of
Otranto grow large enough to control it,
then they should be given. This means the
current prince Manfred and his lineage are
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not the real owners of the castle of
Otranto.
 Because of inordinate ambition, Manfred
quickly arranges a wedding between his
sickly son of fifteen, Conrad to Isabella.
He wants Manfred to bear him a son that
could take over as the heir to continue the
leadership of the castle of Otranto .
 Unfortunately, Conrad died on his
wedding day because a mysterious helmet
fell on him .
 Manfred then plans to Marry Isabella
himself and divorce his wife Hipolitha
who had failed to give birth to a normal
child that could take over as the heir.
 Meanwhile, Theodore, a poor peasant who
comes to reveal that the mysterious helmet
resembles the one on the statue of Alfonso
the Good is arrested and detained.
 Along the line Isabella escapes and
Manfred starts looking for him.
 Matilda went and frees Theodore that was
detained
 The knights were also out to assist in
saving Isabella but Theodore fights and
injures one of them known as Frederic
who happens to be the father of Isabella.
 Frederick and Manfred meet and plan on
marrying each other‟s daughter.
 Meanwhile Manfred thinks Theodore is
with Isabella at the church and rushes to
finish her off. Mistakingly he kills Matilda
his own daughter.
 Play text... She stoops to conquer
 Playwright... Oliver Goldsmith
 Written and performed in London theatre...
1773
Characters
 Mr Hard castle... Husband of Mrs Dorothy
Hard castle. Both are parents of Miss Kate
Hard castle.
 Its about mistaken identity Focusing on the
love life of Kate and Young marlow
 Tony Lumpkin... The son of Mrs Hard
castle from an earlier marriage
 Sir Charles Marlow...Father of Young
Marlow and Friend of Mr Hardcastle... A
rich Londoner
 Diggory... Headservant of the Hardcastles
 Constance Neville...Cousin of Mrs
Hardcastle and Kate‟s friend.
  Hastings.... Friend of Young Marlow who
is to marry constance
 Bet Bouncer.... Tony Lumpkins girlfriend
 Mr. Hard castle arranges a relationship
between his daughter Kate and Young
Marlow the son of his friends. Sir Charles
Marlow a rich Londoner.
Young Marlow travels from London with
his friend George Hastings to court Kate.
 They went to an Ale house called the
Three pigeons where the landlord orders
Tony Lumpkin to give them a direction.
 Unknown to them, they insulted Tony
Lumpkin and he gave them
misinformation about where they are
going.... That it‟s an inn where they should
spend their night before going to see the
Hardcastle. Ironically this inn is in fact the
home of the Hardcastles.
 Young Marlow was insolent to Mr Hard
castle mistaking him for a bar man.
 But Young Marlow is unable to talk to
Kate because of her ostentatious lifestyle.
Young Marlow normally cannot talk to
ladies of his class.
 When Kate discovers this, she quickly
stoops to conquer by adopting a lifestyle
which suits to that expectation,reducing
her self to the level of a barmaid.
 The prologue to the play was and written
by David Garrick and spoken by David
Garrick.
 The prologue laments the dying state of
laughing Comedy as a result of the
emergence of sentimental comedy. But the
arrival of Goldsmiths with She Stoops to
Conquer written in five acts restores it.
Play text.... A Raisin in the sun
Written ...1959
Derived its title from... The poem Harlem
written by Langston Hughes
 Genre type... Domestic tragedy.
MAJOR POINTS
1. Prose text: Native Son
2. Novelist: Richard Wright
3. Year published: 1940
4. Physical setting: South Chicago
5. Temporal setting: 1930s,
6. Plot structure: Linear
7. Point of view: Omniscient third person.
8. Protagonist/Antagonist: Bigger Thomas.
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Made up of family of five :
Subject matter.....Racism
Physical setting... South side Chicago,
Home of the Younger‟s
Time frame....1950s.. after world war 2
Family Expectation...Late Youngers
insurance check of 10000 Dollars
 Lena Younger... Matriarch of the
Youngers
 Walter Lee.... Her son
 Beneatha... Her daughter
 Ruth...Walter‟s wife
 Travis... Walters son
 Walter Lee is a chauffeur /Driver
 Walter Lee is in his mid thirties.... 35
 Mama is in her sixties.... 60
 Beneath a is in her twenties... 20
 Travis is 10
The play opens on a Friday morning When
Travis demanded 50 cents to pay his fee in
school
George Murchison....Beneatha‟s African
American Boyfriend
Joseph Asagai........Beneatha‟s Nigerian
Boyfriend
Willy Harris ....Walter‟s friend that ran away
with his 6500 dollars
Mr karl Lindner....The only white man in the
text.
Clymbourne park....where Mama bought a
house
Beneatha‟s nickname.....Alaiyo...meaning
one for whom bread food is not enough
Who nicknamed her Alaiyo.... Joseph
Asagai
Mama‟s dream....That the money be used to
buy a house
Walters dream....That the money be invested
in a liquor store
Beneathas dream...that the money be used
for her medical tuition
9. The Thomases address: 3721 Indiana
Avenve
10. The Dalton's Address: 4605, Drexel
Bouelevered
11. Psychological Setting: It is one of tragedy
and hatred.
12. Subject matter: Racism
13. Bigger's Mother: Mrs Thomas:
14. Bigger's Brother: Buddy
15. Bigger's Sister: Vera
16. Bigger's age: 20 51. Why did Green quit the job; He got a job
17. Mary Dalton's age: 23 with the Government
18. Mary dies through: Soffocation 52. Name of the alcoholic drink taken by Mary
19. The caption on David Buckley's post: Law Jan and Bigger: Rum
Breakers will not win:
20. Bigger's gang members: Jack, GH and Gus 1. Play text: Othello
21. Hide out for the gang members: The pool 2. Playwright: William Shakespeare
room. 3. Year published: 1603/1604
22. Who recommended Bigger for a job: The 4. Century: 17th Century
Relief 5. Sub-genre form: Tragedy
23. Proprietor of the pool room: Doc 6. Setting: Venice
24. Bigger's father died: In a riot 7. Form: Eponymous
25. Prosecution counsel: David Buckley 8. Hero: Othello
26. Defence Counsel: Moris Max 9. Villain: Iago
27. Why is Max Primarily hated: Because he's 10. Desdemona: Othello's Wife
a Jew. Brabantio: Desdemona's father.
28. Why was Bigger Sent to reform school: Main dramatic technique: Dramatic Irony
Because he was stealing auto-tyres Conflict: Jealousy
29. Number of months spent at the reform Why is Iago Jealous
school: three months. i. Cassio is promoted as a lieutenant even
30. Bigger, voted twice as an underage and though he has more experience in the
collected: Five Dollars military
31. Bigger had quality time with Mary and Jan ii. He feels Othello is having an illicit affair
at: Ernie's kitchen at the Black Belt with his Wife, Emelia
32. When did Bigger stop school: Eight Grade Roderigo: Desdemona's secret admirer.
33. Why did Bigger stop school: Because of Why is Roderigo Jealous? He wants
poverty Desdemona,Othello's love.
34. Mrs Thomas tries to forget racism through: The handkerchief: Symbol of love with the
Religion pattern of strawberries embroidered on it
35. Bessie tries to forget racism through: Who made the handkerchief: An Egyptian
Drinking prophetess.
36. The Dalton's househelp: peggy The last evidence othello needs to prove
37. Mrs Dalton's private attendant: Mrs Desedemona is guilty: Iago involves cassio
Patterson in a conversation discussing Bianca,
38. Mrs Dalton's mother: Mrs Rawlson Cassio's prostitute, girl friend. Othello
39. Mrs Dalton's age: 53 hides listening thinking its Desdemona that
40. Native son is divided into how many parts: is the subject of the discussion. He couldn't
Three: Fear, flight, fate bear it anymore
41. The judge: Justice Ajvin Hunley Why is Desdemona killed by Othello? So
42. Governor of Illinois: HM O'Dorsey she wouldn't live to betray more men. .
43. The Novel form: Allegorical Brabantio: A senator in Venice,
44. Literature form: African American Desdemona‟s father, He accused Othello
Literature/Literature of melancholy/Protest of Bewitching Desdemona.
Literature/Literature of Disillusionment. Desdemona was murdered by Othello
45. Jan's Sister lives in: New York through: Suffocation
46. The Car given to Bigger: Buick Anagnorisis  Emelia's revelation of Iago's
47. What would have been Bigger's Salary: 20 evil machinations.
Dollars per week QUESTIONS ON SHE STOOPS TO
48. What would have been Bigger's allowance: CONQUER
5 Dollars per week: Totalling 25 Dollars 1. The prologue to the play She Stoops to
per week Conquer was written by: (a) Johnson
49. Who was employed before Bigger: Green David (b) David Hanley (c) David
50. Green spent how many years with the Garrick (d) David mark smith
Dalton's: 10
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 2. The prologue to the play is spoken by (a)
Joseph Hardwood (b) Bush wellington (c)
Mr. Henry Woodward (d) mark fish
3. The play is essentially that of (a) 16th
century (b) Eighteenth century (c)
twentieth century (d) fifteenth century
4. An alternative name for She Stoops to
Conquer is (a) Tony's Adventure (b) The
mistake of the Night (c) Mistake of a life
time (d) comedy of errors
5. The real focus of the play is (a) the love
life of the children of the Hardcastle (b)
the boring nature of the countryside (c)
Misinformation (d) Foolishness
6. The daughter of Mr and Mrs Hardcastle is
(a) Bet Bouncer (b) Mary Hard castle (c)
Kate (d) Constance Neville
7. By a previous marriage, Mrs. Hardcastle
has a son (a) Tony Francis (b) Tony
Lumpkin (c) Tony Hastings (d) Tony tom
8. The mistake of the night is as a result of
the misinformation given by (a) Young
Marlow (b) Tony (c) Charles Marlow (d)
Mr. Hardcastle
9. Mrs Hardcastle tries to match -make her
son with her niece called (a) Jenny young
(b) Constance Neville (b) Constance
Wright (c) Alexander Faith (d) Britney
Constance
10. The attempt to match make her son and her
niece is carried out so that she would be in
possession of (a) Neville Jewelery (b)
Nevilles expensive mansion (c)Neviles
cars(d)non of the above
11. Mrs Hardcastle complains at the beginning
of the play that theirs is the only family
that doesn't (a) eat well (b) travel to
London (c) train children (d) Love good
things
12. The play belongs to a genre type known as
(a) comedy (b) tragic comedy (c)
Melodrama (d) tragedy
13. The Hardcastles' House is mistaken for
a/an/ (a) supermarket (b) Inn (c) school
(d) restaurant
14. Young Marlow mistakes Miss Hardcastle
for a/an (a) idiot (b) barmaid (c) teacher
(d) non of the above
15. The character who stoops to conquer is (a)
Kate (b) Constance (c) betty bouncer (d)
young Marlow
16. Young Marlow find it difficult to date a
lady of his (a) age (b) class (c) country (d)
non of the above
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17. Tony Lumpkin is (a) 21 years (b) 22 years
(c) 23 years (d) 26 years
"An awkward booby, reared up and
spoiled at his mother's apron - strings"
18. Who is the character described here? (a)
Hastings (b) Tony (c) Young Marlow (d)
Charles Marlow
19. The overriding device in the play is (a)
Dramatic Irony (b) aside (c) monologue
(d) flash back.
20. When Tony comes of Age, they hope to
pay him ___ every year (a) 1,600 pounds
(b) 1,500 pounds (c) 2,000 pounds (d)
1,000 pounds
21. She Stoops to Conquer was written by
(a)Dele Charley (b)Oliver Goldsmith (c)
Charles Dickens(d)Thomas Hardy
QUESTIONS ON THE BLOOD OF A
STRANGER
22. The village shrine priest is (a) Maligu (b)
Soko (c) Kindo (d) Parker
23. Who is the king's advisor (a) Maligu (b)
Soko (c) Parker (d) Kindo
24. The setting of the play is (a) Cameroon
(b) Sierra-leone (c) Senegal (d) Egypt
25. The white head raped the natives through
the gifts of (a) money (b) strange
tabacoo and alchohol (c) coffee (d)
Onions
26. Kindo's woman in the text is (a) Wara (b)
hira (c) salley (d) Non of the above
27. Maligu and Soko abduct wara for (a)
Joseph Hanley (b) Santigi (c) the white
head (d) Kindo
28. Soko actually summons and communal
meeting to tell them about the (a) return
of wara (b) the expected stranger (c) the
blood that has stand the land (d) non of
the above
29. The physcial setting of the play is the
fictional village of (a) Sando (b) Mando
(c) Rando (d) Tando
30. The temporal setting of the play is (a) the
colonial times (b) pre-colonial times (c)
31. The subject matter of the play is (a)
colonial oppression (b) oppression of the
women (c) Marital irresponsibility (d)
Justice and Fair play
32. The secretary, assistant, interpreter,
adviser and the right hand of white head
is (a) Thompson parker (b) Andrew
 Ogiribo (c) Saint Augustine (d) None of
the above
33. Who is the son of the king and heir
apparent?(a)kindo (b)Malingu(c)Soko
(d)non of the above
34. The writer of the play is (a)Frank Ogodo
(b) Dele charley(b)Dele Momodu (c)
Christopher Okigbo (d) non of the above
QUESTIONs ON SHALL I COMPARE
THEE TO A SUMMER'S DAY
35. One major device used in “Shall I
compare Thee to a summer's Day” is (a)
contrast (b) symbol (c) alliteration (d)
Onamatopeia
36. "Shall I compare thee to a Summer's Day"
exemplifies (a) Ode (b) Ballad (c)
Sonnet(d) Elegy
37. Shall I compare thee to a summer's Day?"
is Shakespeare‟s (a) Fourteenth sonnet (b)
Eighteenth sonnet (c) tenth sonnet (d)
seventeenth sonnet
38. The major theme in the poem is (a)
courtship (b) Love (c) buds of may (d)
summer
39. The title of the poem exemplifies (a) pun
(b) rhetorical question (c) paradox (d)
Apostrophe
40. The poet's beloved is warmer than the (a)
darling buds of May (b) summer's day
(c) the month of may (d) wind
41. The poet's love will not die so long as (a)
it is composed in poetry (b) nature made
it so (c) God makes his love supreme (d)
God is not partial
42. The concluding couplet of the poem
shows that the love of the persona (a)
exists permanently (b) dies in poetry (c)
makes poetry boring
QUESTION ON BIRCHES
43. The poem is essentially (a) a meditative
and nature poem (b) a poem on life after
death (c) Elegiac (d) an ode
44. One major theme of the poem is (a)
imagination (b) regret and hole (c)
disappoint (d) All of the above
45. Though the Bird trees are bent by the ice
but the persona likes to imagine that it's
(a) a boy (b) a wind (c) a terrible fire (d)
non of the above
46. The branches that the boy swings on
represents (a) adulthood (b) childhood (c)
experience
(d) all of the above
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47. The poet likes to go back to his childhood
days because (a) adulthood is
characterized by travails (b) he is
unhealthy (c) He lacks sense of direction
(d) Non of the above
48. One major device used in the poem is (a)
personification (b) symbolism (c) satire
(d) pun
49. Straighter darker trees" represents (a)
childhood (b) adulthood (c) innocence
(d) non of the above
50. Who is the writer of the poem?(a)John
Donne (b)Robert Frost (c)George Elliot
(d) Samuel Becket
QUESTIONS ON A RAISIN IN THE SUN
51. The subject matter of the play is (a) racial
segregation (b) Poverty (c) hypocrisy (d)
Love
52. The physical setting is (a) south Chicago
(b) New York (c) Texas (d) North
America
53. A Raisin in the sun is recognizably
(a)biographical (b) autobiographical (c)
a memoir (d) an essay
54. The title of A raisin in the sun comes
from the poem titled (a) The tea (b)
Harlem (c) Raising (d) sunny day
55. The temporal setting of the play is (a)
1930s (b) 1950s (c) 1980s (d) 1920s.
56. The youngers live in a (a) one room
apartment(b) three room apartment (c)
two room apartment (d) non of the above
57. The matriarch of the younger's is (a) lena
younger (b) Mary Younger (c) Euchyn
younger (d) Judith Younger
58. The daughter of the matriach of the
younger is (a) Tracy (b) Beneatha (c)
Truism (d) Non of the above
59. the play opens with the Younger's about
to receive insurance check for (a) 100,000
dollars (b) 10,000 dollars (c) 11,000
dollars (d) 8,000 dollars
60. The conflict in the family is that of (a)
Clash over their competing dreams (b)
Trust ration (c) Poverty (d) All of the
above
61. The man who comes to buy out the
Younger's house is (a) Cyril (b)Karl (c)
Syndney (d) Joseph
62. The House the youngers bought is at (a)
Faraday's Estate (b) Clybourne park (c)
New Orleans park (d) Non of the above
63. Mama's son, Walter lee suggests that they
invest the money in a (a) Liquor store (b)
Barber's Salon (c) Supermarket (d) Non
of the above
64. Beneatha's dream is for the money to be
used for (a) her medical tuition (b)
building an apartment (c) a and b above
(d) non of the above.
65. Beneatha's suitor is Asagai from (a)
Ghana (b) Nigeria (c) Sierra Leone (d)
UK
66. Walter Lee and his wife Ruth have a son
known as Taylor (b) Travis (c) parker (d)
Non of the above.
67. From the Clymburn park, Mr. Linder a
white man was sent to the Younger's to
(a) discourage them from relocating to
their new apartment (b) Punish them (c)
kill the matriarch (d) All of the above
68. Who is the writer of the play?
(a)Lorraine Hansberry (b)Richardson
(c)Jonathan Swift (d)non of the above
QUESTIONS ON THE CASTLE OF
OTRANTO
69. The narrative is essentially referred to as
(a)a gothic romance (b) espionage
(c)faction (d)all of the above
70. The author of the novel is (a)Horace
Walpole (b)Lorraine Hansberry(c)
Murasaki
71. The novel was published in
(a)1763(b)1764 (c) 1850 (d)1800
72. The actual heir to the Castle of Otranto
is (a)Conrad(b)Fredric (c)Theodore
(d)Alfonso
73. Conrad died (a)a week before his
wedding(b)on his wedding day (c)a
month before his wedding (d)non of the
above
74. The wife of Manfred in the text is
(a)Isabella (b)Hipollita
(c)Matilda(d)Bianca
75. Manfred the current ruler of the castle of
otranto has………….. children (a)four
(b)two(c)six (d) three
76. Conrad, Manfred‟s son and his heir to the
throne is a sickly boy of
(a)sixteen(b)ten(c)nineteen (d)fifteen
77. The death of Conrad is ominous because
(a)it foreshadows ancient prophecy(b) it
signals the presence of evil spirit (c)it
underlines the witchcraft of
Hippolitta(d)non of the above
78. The death of Conrad is occasioned by (a)a
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mysterious curse (b) a mysterious
helmet (c)sickness (d)all of the above
79. Conrad in the text is to wed (a)Matilda (b)
Isabella (c) Hippollita (d)non of the
above
80. The ancient prophecy is that (a) the castle
of otranto must fall (b)the castle of
otranto must be passed to its rightful
owner (c)the castle of otranto will be
destroyed someday (d) Conrad must die
81. One who assists the director in script
interpretation is known as (a)dramaturgy
(b)caesura (c)variorum (d)dramaturge
82. The goddess of inspiration in classical
mythology is called (a)dithyramb
(b)Osiris (c)muse (d)zeus
83. The etymology of literature is the latin
word (a)literateur
(b)literatus(c)literaria(d)literatura
84. The various commentaries on the edition
of a book is called (a)diegesis
(b)variorum (c)vaudeville (d)omnibus
85. The type of theatre in which there is a
sudden turn in its presentation is called
(a)theatre of cruelty(b)absurd theatre (c)
theatre of cruelty(d)coup d theatre
86. Part of the reasons why Amma Darko‟s
Faceless is so named is that the(a)the real
killer of Baby T is unknown (b) Naa
Yomo hides her identity (c) Baby T pick
pockets(d)Poison hates Baby T
87. Mute is basically interested in
(a)information building (b) street child
phenomenon(c)the travails of Fofo and
her family(d)Poison and his gang
members
88. „In those days when civilization kicked us
in the face/when holy water slapped our
cringing brows‟‟ contains the figurative
name known as (a)metaphor
(b)apostrophe (c)prolepsis (d) A
personification
89. Both Ochuole and Aloho meet at The
Ministry of external relations located at
(a)Ayokolo (b) Maisama (c) panya (d)
Gbossa
90. The volume of a work usually reprints
by an author on related topics is called
(a)cameo (b) Olieo
(c)omnibus(d)incunabula
91. The word „level‟ best exemplifies
(a)anagram(b)
palindrome(c)palimpsest(d)metanoia
 92. The willow song is sung by the maid in
Othello because (a)she is jilted by a
lover(b)she could not cook at all(c)no one
believed she wasn‟t a witch(d)she is
interested in Othello
93. The handkerchief symbolize(a) cultural
heritage(b)impending death(c)love at
first sight(d)innocence
94. „They all waited for the storm to break‟
contains the figurative name known as
(a)syllepsis(b)personification (c)
metaphor (d) pradox
95. The totality of a writer‟s compositions is
called (a)ana (b)annals (c) palilogy
(d)oeuvre
96. A poem used to celebrate impending
marriage is termed (a)encomium
(b)epithalamion (c) nostos (d)
prothalamion
97. An alternative term for dramatis personae
is (a) cast (b)dramatist (c)characterization
(d) crew
98. The final stage of a tragedy when some
disaster overwhelms the tragic hero is
called (a)epistasis (b)lusis (c)catastrophe
(d) erotema
99. The stage in a drama when the audience is
either shocked or marveled by the event
that is unexpected is termed (a) interlogue
(b)intermezzo(c)spectacle(d)omnibus
100. Yaremi was finally confirmed a witch
because (a)she quarreled with
everybody(b)woye was very sick(c)a
hawk had earlier perched on their roof
(d)she was never a giver
101. Yaremi‟s Kingdom is (a)her former
village (b)her taffeta yard (c) her
kitchen(d)bedroom
102. Record has it that the King who ruled
after Joviniah was (a)humble (b)arrogant
(c) seventy times more mad than mad (d)
greedy
THE LION AND THE JEWEL
QUESTIONS
103 “a SAVAGE CUSTOM, BARBARIC,
OUT-DATED
Rejected, denounced, accursed
Excommunicated, archaic, degrading
Humiliating, Unspeakable, redundant,
Retrogressive, remarkable,
unpalatable”
What custom does Lakunle refer
to in the above excerpt?
(a) The seduction of a maiden (b)
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Wrestling contests as an exercise (c)
The practice of polygamy (d) The
payment of bride price
104. The time has come when I can fool
myself.
No more I am no man Sadiku my manhood
Ended near a week ago
In the light of subsequent
happenings, these words reveal that the
speaker (a) Abhors polygamy (b) has
become impotent (c) is a crafty seducer
(d) is disgusted with life
.“….Aha, Here comes Sadiku
Do you bring some balm
To sooth the smart of my misused armpit
Away, you enemy.”
What is the nature of the balm referred to
by the speaker?
(a) an antiseptic ointment (b) a special
method of massage (c) news about Sidi
(d) a good of palm wine
105. Lakunle ….. To fetch and carry
To cook
To bring forth children
Sidi: Heaven forgive you! Do you now
Scorn child bearing in a wife?
What would Lakunle rather prefer
to accomplish before child bearing?
(a) Formal education (b) Good
kissing habit (c) Racial and sexual
equality (d) Church wedding
106 The immediate consequence of the
publication of Sidi‟s pictures is to make
her (a) want to marry the photographer
(b) Feel more important than Baroka
(c) Want to go to the city (d) Appreciate
Lakunle‟s Learning
107. Lakunle is presented as a (a) Fine
specimen of an educated young man (b)
Truly progressive and enlightened youth (c)
Strong defender of the people‟s tradition (d)
Caricature of a modern educated man
108. …I am the twinkle
But he‟s the hind-quarters of a lion!”
These lines suggest that
(a) Sidi is superior to the Baale (b) Sidi
is weaker than the Baale (c) Sidi is
cleverer than the Baale (d) The Baale
 is violent.
109 The central theme of the play is the (a) ill
of modern way (b) Clash between tradition
and modernity (c) problem of courtship (d)
Conflict between the old and the young
110 “….But there have been
No new reeds cots woven….”
It can be inferred from the above
lines that (a) there has been no harvest in
the village (b) The Baale‟s servant are
revolting (c) No children have been
born recently (d) The Baale‟s servants
are Lazy
He risked his life that you may boast
111 A warrior – hunter for your Lord….. But
you
You sell him to the rhyming rabble
Gloating in your disloyalty.
In these lines the rhyming rabble refers
to in (a) Clowns who want on the Baale
(b) Children in Lakunle‟s school (c)
Professional singers (d) The mummers
who dance in mockery of the Baale’s
rumored impotence.
. The two characters that symbolize
the lion and the jewel respectively are (a)
Lakunle and Sidi (b) Baroka and Sadiku
(c) Sadiku and Sidi (d) Baroka and Sidi
112. “This is the world of women. At
this moment our star sits in the centre of
the sky. We are supreme” These words
were spoken by (A) The Favourite (b)
Sadiku (C) Sidi (d) The third girl
113. The Baale is symbolically referred
to as a fox because of his (a) Mental
prowess (b) Sexual prowess (c)
physical prowess (d) royalty
Which of the following character
traits will apply to Lakunle? (a) Comic
and Absurd (b) Stupid and simplistic
(c) Pompous and spontaneous (d)
Decisive and bol
114. Which of these following
divisions is used as a technical device to
denote the symbolic significance of
certain events?
(a) Day, morning and afternoon
(b) Morning, noon and night
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(c) Morning, evening and mid-
night
(d) mid-day, mid-night and
morning
QUESTIONS BASED ON BUCHI
EMECHETA’S SECOND CLASS
CITIZEN
115 The novel is an expoSe of the
(a) Pre-eminent position of boys in
Igbo land
(b) Experience of Adah‟s mother in the
police cell
(c) Travels of the girl-child
(d) Marriage customs of the Igbo
116 For her act of child neglect,
Adah‟s mother was forced by the
police
(a) Taste raw and black pepper.
(b) Sleep in solitary cell
(c) drink a bowl of garri
(d) Pray a fine of ten shilling
117 . Adah‟s sojourn in London reveals
that (a) marriage is an equal
partnership between spouses (b)
her marriage improves (c) Francis is
a hardworking man
118 Pa noble became a living legend
because
(a) Several conflicting stories
were woven around him
(b) he attained the status of a first
class citizen
(c) He was the only successful son
of a Benin Chief
(d) He was rich and very genius
119 . The marriage of Adah and Francis
collapse because of
A. Adah‟s unfaithfulness to Francis
B. The influence of British culture
C. Adah’s desire for personal
fulfillment
D. External pressures on the couple
120 . The central theme in second class
citizen is that women should
A. be involved in national politics
B. Beware of men and their sweet
words
C. Seek spiritual guidance before
going into marriage D. Free
 themselves from the negative forces of - Both characters are seen drinking on Troy‟s
patriarchy. porch tonight on a Friday which is the payday –
They are on their usual night ritual of drinking.
1. Adah was roughly _____ when the people - Both characters are Garbage collectors
of Ibuza were preparing to welcome the - Both characters discuss their boss, Mr. Rand
first lawyer and the complaints he, Troy has filed about the
A.eight years blacks denied from driving the garbage truck.
B. seven years - The Maxson house is an ancient brick house.
C. nine years - The wooden porch is in a bad condition
D.11 years begging to be painted
2. Adah‟s arrival to her parents was such a - The temporal setting is 1950s during the days
A.blessing of racism
B. disappointment - The physical setting is pittsburg, in USA
C. Poverty - Troy Maxson was a good player of Baseball
D.disgrace but he was not allowed to play in the major
3. Adah was born_____ leagues
A.during the second world war - Troy met Bono white in prison where he spent
B. during the first world war 15 years for killing
C. after the first world war - What serves as Troy‟s major way of
D.before the second world war explaining his actions is baseball
4. The protagonist of the narrative is - The play starts on a Friday evening
A.Francis - Troy is 53 years old
B. Adah - Troy tells the story of one Brownie a co-
C. Boy worker who lies to their boss, Rand about
D.Pa having water –melon in his hands and hides the
5. Adah‟s mother is a water melon in his coat
A.Farmer - Alberta, Troy‟s concubine is from Tallahassee
B. Seamstress - Rose is 10 years younge than her husband
C. Trader - Bono‟s wife is busy preparing pig feet for
D.School teacher supper
- IN The house Bono and his wife earlier lived
6. Adah‟s younger brother is in, they spent six years
A.James - Rose prefers A and P supermarket where
B. Boy things are cheap
C. John - Troy prefers the corner‟s store (Bella‟s)
D.Ibu where he‟s known and treated well
- Troy does not support the ideas that Cory has
7. Boy attends been recruited by a college football team
A.Ladi-Lak institute - Troy maintain that Cory should remain as a
B. St. Kate‟s institute worlar at A and P and then “get recruibid in
C. St. John‟s Institute how to fix cars or something where he can
D.St. Augustine Institue make a living
- Troy talks about how he was more competent
8. Ma and her family live at than Selkirk of Yankee in the batting average
A.Bode Street - Troy tells his story about his struggle with
B. Akinwumi Street death in July 1941
C. Akintola Street - Troy was battling with pneumonia
D.Thomas Street - Lyon in Troy‟s son from an earlier marriage
- Lyons is a Jazz musician
FENCES CRUCIAL POINTS - Bono‟s wife is Lucille
- Fences begins in 1957 with the major - Troy get their fertilize from a dude called Mr.
character, Troy Maxson and his long time Ghikman.
friend Jimi. - Lyon‟s girlfriend is Bonnie

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- Lyons always borrow 10 dollars from his
father
- Miss pearl won the lottery, a little money, the
other day
- Gabriel is Troy‟s brother. He‟s got a metal
plate in his mead from injury he got in world
war II
- Gabriel only wants biscuit for breakfast
- Gabriel believes that he is the archangel
Gabriel
- Gabriel thinks Troy is not happy with him
because he moves out of his house to reside in
MS pearl‟s basement
- Gabriel got only 3 thousand dollars because of
the injury
- Troy needs Cory with the fence every
Saturday
- Cory tells Troy to buy television
- Troy replies that T.V is 200 dollars that he‟ll
rather use the money to repair the roof of his
house as it costs 264 dollars
- The pirates have an all white team except for
that poerto Rican Boy..--- clemente
- Cory tries to convince Troy that black players
such as Hank Aaron and west Covington are
playing more in the big leagues
- Troy struggles with death for 3 days
- According to Troy, roof cost Two hundred
and sixty four dollars
- Troy is the first black to have been promoted
to the position of a garbage truck drivr.
- Troy had an old dog called Blue
- Troy‟s father was a share cropper
- Troy‟s father has 11 children
- Troy‟s mother left the children when Troy
was still young (8 years) and never return
- Troy started sniffing around Joe Canenell
daughter
- At fourteen Troy walked 200 miles down to
mobile where he caught a ride with a group of
black men heading for Pittsburgh.
- Gabriel was arrested for disturbing the peace
and Troy paid fifty dollars fine to get him
released
- Bono promised his wife Lucille a refrigerator
- Alberta gives birth to Raynell and dies
- Rose rejects the husband who thinks this
should have happened 5 or 10 years ago
- Alberta dies at childbirth
- Bonnie‟s health challenge is Athritis
- Lyons is to spent 3 years imprisonment but he
has 9 months left
- Brownie hides water melon in his coat
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- The last character to speak in the text is
Gabriel
- Rose was thirty years old when Troy proposed
to her
- Lyons and Bonnie broke up about four years
ago at the end of the novel
- As at the time Cory comes back from the
military, Raynell was 7
- Lyons returns the twenty dollars he‟s owing
his father
- What tears Bono and Troy‟s friendship apart
is Troy‟s promotion
- Bono plays domino games every Fridays
WUTHERING HEIGHTS EMILY
BRONTE
- Wuthering Heights was published in 1847
- It is a gothic romance
- It has 34 chapters
- Wuthering Height was built in the year 1500
and the original owners are the Earnshaws
hence the inscription of the door Hareton
Earnshaw
- The story is told through flash back
- Mr. Lockwood visits his landlord, Heathcliff
in the year 1801
- „Heathcliff is a gypsy boy pick up from the
street of Liverpool by Mr. Earnshaw
- Mr. Earnshaw spends 3 days in Liverpool, a
journey that takes him sixty miles.
- Mr. Earshaw‟s children are Hindley and
catherine
- Mrs. Earnsaw dies barely two years after the
arrival of Heathcliff
- Thrushcross Grange is owned by the Lintons
Mr. Linton has two children Edgar and Isabella
- Edgar marries Catherine and they have a
daughter called Cathy
- Hindley marries Francess and they have a son
called Hareton
- Heathcliff marries Isabella and they have a
son Linton
- Francess dies of consumption after giving
birth to Hareton
- From Liverpool, Mr. Earshaw promised to get
- Fiddle for Hindley
- Whip for Catherine
- Pocket full of apples and pears for Nelly
- The floor of wuthering Heights is made of
white stones
- The chairs are green in wuthering heights
- Catherine‟s diary was composed 25 years
earlier
- The book seventy times seven is a book 12. Ada was selected to work as a librarian in
discourse defined by Reverend Jabes Brando (a) American consulate library, campbell
ham street (b) Indian consulate library, Angelina
- The ghost of cathering cries that for 20 years street (c) American consulate library, Loveth
she has been a waif street (d) American
- Zillah has been in the heights for a year or two Consulate library, Amstadam street
- The curate advises that Hindley be sent to 13. On her first payday Adah was to be paid (a)
college. After three years, the father died and he sixty pounds (b) twenty pounds (c) fifty dollars
returned to the Heights. (d) Sixty four pounds
14. The minister of Northern Nigeria in the text
LION AND THE JEWEL is (a) Lawyer Nweze (b) Lawyer Obi (c)
- It was published in 1963 Accountant John (d) Lawyer Nneka
- The market is dominated by an immense Odan 15. When Francis travels, Adah promises to
tree in the village centre send her every months (a) 20 pounds (d) 40
- The two pupils who make a buzzing noise at pounds (c) 60 pounds (d) 30 pounds
sidi are roughly eleven 16. Ma died at the age of (a) 39 (b) 38 (c) 45 (d)
- Baroka‟s last wife is Ailatu 50
- Lakunle refers to him as the Fox (i.e. Baroka) 17. Ma died when Adah was in hospital having
- Lakunle wears 23 inch-bottom trousers and (a) Titi (b) Osiaju (c) Adim (d) Joy
while tennis shoes 18. Francis attended (a) Hussey college (b)
- Lakunle promises Sidi that in a year or two, Ladi-Lak (c) Ibuza secondary school (d)
she‟ll get a good machine that‟ll do her Government Science school, Iuza
pounding. 19. Francis school is located in (a) Lagos (b)
Warri (c) Portharcourt (d) Ibadan
SECOND CLASS CITIZEN 20. From Lagos to Ibuza is (a) 40 miles (b) 200
1. Mr Cole is from (a) Ghana (b) Sierra Leone miles (c) 400 miles (d) 300 miles
(c) Nigeria (d) Namibia 21. Ada was pressed by “Francis to work in a
2. Ada attends (a) Ladi-lak (b) Methodist (a) (a) Laundry department (b) shirt company
school (c) Ibuza school (d) Kate school (c) Library (d) hotel
3. Ma was with the police being charged with 22. Adah started work in UK on the
(a) child neglect (b)morder (c) Parent neglect
(d) stealing LET ME DIE ALONE
4. Ma was forced at the station to (a) drink a John Kolosa Kargbo
bowl of garri (b) eat a bowl of rice (c) eat 5
plates of beans (d) do all of the above 1. The first scene takes place in
5. Ada‟s pet name is (a) Nnenna (b) A. Yoko‟s kitchen
chakabulah (c) Nneka (d) Ngozi B. Gbanya’s bedroom
6. Adah‟s cousin and enemy that failed C. Gbanya‟s farm
Cambridge Examination is (a) Francis (b) D. Musa‟s shrine
Vincent (c) Ogbodu (d) mike
7. The husband of Adah is (a) Joseph (b) 2. The conversation at the beginning of the
Francis (c) Mathew (d) famous play is between ____ and _____
8. Francis was a very quiet man who was A. Gbanya and Jilo
reading to be a/an (a) lawyer (b) engineer (c) B. Gbanya and Yoko
accountant (d) Architect C. Jeneba and Yoko
9. Francis was to pay _____ as bride price (a) D. Musa and Lamboi
500 pounds (b) two hundred pounds (c) 100
pounds (d) 50 pounds 3. Gbanya‟s major fear is
10. Adah was sent to buy Koboko with (a) 3 A. death
penny piece (b) 4 penny piece (c) 5 penny B. manner of dying
piece (d) 30 penny piece C. his killers
11. Adah‟s number for the scholarship exam is D. Musa
(a) 947 (b) 480 (c) 290 (d) 488
4. Gbanya has
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A. 28 wives
B. 37 wives
C. 40 wives
D. 25 wives
5. In the play, the seer and medicine man is
A. Lamboi
B. Musa
INVISIBLE MAN: RALPH ELLISON
1. Invisible man was published in (a) 1960 (b)
1940 (c) 1951 (d) 1952
2. The physical setting of the novel is ____ (a)
United Kingdom (b) America (c) India (d)
Spain
3. The subject matter of the novel is _____ (a)
Supernatural (b) racism (c) Sexual abuse
(d) Phenomenon of the street child
4. The protagonist of the narrative is _____ (a)
Alberto 9b) Invisible man (C) Mr Norton
(d) Dr. Bledsoe
5. The protagonist‟s identify is invisible
because of his (a) stupidity (b) colour (c)
carelessness (d) sexual abuse
6. The point of view is predominantly (a)
second person (b) first person (c) third
person (d) stream of consciousness
7. The invisible man admits he has been hiding
(A) under the water (b) underground (c) in
the forest (d) in the cage
8. The protagonist got an opportunity to present
a speech at (a) Battle Royal (b) Birthday
party (C) burial ceremony (d) Gimmerton
9. The privilege of delivering the speech was
extended to him due to (a) his courage (b)
his address at his high school graduation
party (c) maturity (d) wealth
10. One of the things the protagonist and
narrator never planned for is being forced
alongside other black students to (a) watch a
white nude girl dance (b) sleep with while
women (c) kiss the black girsl (d) Kill fellow 22. The content of the letter the narrator is
blacks
11. While watching the nude white girls the
black boys are not allowed to have any (a)
sexual arousal (b) sign of hatred (c) sign of
stubbornness (d) idiocy
12. One of the things that shocks the narrator is 23. Who appears in the dream to show the
that he‟s (a) beaten by the whites (b)
blindfolded alongside some of his
classmates and asked to fight (c)
incarcerated (d) injected
13. One of the things that amazes the narrator is
that he and other blacks were (a) asked to
pick fake gold pieces on an electrified rug
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C. Lavalie
D. Musa
6. The chief warrior is
A. Ndapi
B. Jilo
(b) tog to kill one another (c) told not to eat
again (d) told to drink water without food
14. Each of the blacks that participated in the
contests was paid (a) five dollars (b) 10
dollars (c) 20 dollars (d) 15 dollars
15. Who was the black that won the royal
contest (a) the narrator (b) Alberto (c)
Tatlock (d) Mr Norton
16. The black that won the royal contest was
given extra (A) six dollars (b) five dollars
(c) seven dollars (d) four dollars.
17. After the narrator has been seriously
beaten, he was asked to (a) sing a song (b)
deliver his speech (c) rest for 20 minutes
(d) o to hell
18. During his speech, the white, almost
lynched the narrator for mentioning (a)
social equality (b) social responsibility (C)
disorderliness (d) stinginess
19. Who saved the narrator from being lynched
for using the wrong term (a) the schools
security guard (b) the school
superintendent (c) Mr Alberto (d) Tatlock
20. The narrator says he meant to say (a)
social responsibility (b) social inequality (c)
social equality (d) non of the above
21. At the end of the narrator‟s speech he‟s (a)
given 10,000 dollars (b) given a
scholarship to a college for blacks (c)
given an award of excellence (d) rejected by
other blacks
given contains the caption (a) to whom it
may concern, keep this nigger boy running
(b) The boy deserves a big blow (c) Good
and responsible (d) he deserves a good
place.
content of the letter to the narrator? (a) his
sister (b) his grandmother (c) his
grandfather (d) his step mother
24. The wealthy white trustee of the college is
(a) Mr. Tatlock (b) Mr. Norton (c) Jim
True blood (d) Alberto
25. Distinguishing himself academically, the
narrator is given the privilege to drive (a)
Mr. Kimbro (b) Mr. Norton (c) tatlock (d)
Alberto
26. The black man who impregnated his own
son is (a) Tattock (b) Jim trueblood (c) Mr
Kimbro (d) Norton
27. The beer parlour and brothel for the blacks
is (a) Golden star (b) Golden Rings (c)
Golden store (d) Golden Day
28. At the beer parlour, Mr. Norton loses
consciousness during a fracas and he‟s
resuscitated back with a bottle of (a) coke
(b) Whiskey (C) star (d) wine
29. The argument between a military doctor
and Mr. Norton on racism provokes the latter
at the Golden Day as asked the narrator to
(a) quit his job (b) drive him back to
college (c) strip himself naked (d) kill
himself
30. The president of the college is (a) Mr.
Bledsoe (b) Mr Norton (c) Kimbro (d)
Albert
31. Because of what happened at Golden day,
Mr. Bledsoe (a) denies the narrator his food
(b) expels the narrator from the college (c)
kills the narrator‟s wife (d) non of the above
32. Mr. Bledsoe give, the narrator ____ letters
of recommendation (a) six (b) seven (c) ten
(d) fifteen
33. All the letters are addressed to the college‟s
trustees who are in (a) Los Angeles (b)
Mississipi, (c) Texas (d)New York
34. The narrator travels to ___ in search of a
job but all futile (a) Harlem (b) South
Chicargo (c) Pittsburg (d) Mississipt
35. In the seven letters Bledsoe had (a) praised
the narrator (b) presented the narrator as
worthless (c) branded the narrator, a killer (d)
none non of the above
36. It is at ____ office that the narrator realizes
the content of the letters (a) Mr Kimberly
(b) Mr. Emerson’s (c) Mr Bayliss (d) Mr.
Bledsoe
37. Who assisted the narrator to get a job at the
Liberty paints? (a) Mr. Emerson’s son (b)
Mr. Tatlock (c) Alberto (d) Mr. Emerson
38. At liberty paints, the narrator is also
introduced into work place politics also
steeped in (a) racism (b) love (c)
sleeplessness (d) nakedness
39. At Liberty party, the narrator first works
with a white man known as _____ (a) Mr
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Macdonald (b) Mr. Kimbro (c) Mr.
Hudson (d)Mr. Jackson
40. The narrator relocates to Basement No. 2
because of Kimbro‟s refusal to (a) give him
food (b) give him love (c) explain things in
details (d) non fo the above
41. At Basement No. 2, the narrator works with
a grumpy old man called (A) Kimbro (b) Mr.
Emerson (c) Lucius Brockway (d) Norton
42. Brockway fights the narrator because of his
(A) Imbecility (b) insecurity (c) desire to
marry the narrator‟s wife 9d) All of the
above
43. The narrator is dismissed after Brockway
(a) sets him up for an (a) accident (b)
stealing in the factory (c) slapping with his
wife (d) killing an innocent soul
44. While at the hospital, the whites use the
narrator as a ___ for electric shock treatment
(b) guinea pig (b) fowl (c) dog (d) cow
45. \The harsh treatment the narrator suffers at
the hospital makes him have temporary (a)
Madness (b) loss of memory and fatigue
(c) preomonia (d) arthritis
46. The black-American woman that nortures
the narrator back to health after his ill-
treatment at the hospital is _____ (a) Johnson
Mary (b) Mary Rambo (c) Mary Augustine
(d) Mary Jackson
47. Having lost hope of securing a job he goes
to pack his belongings from where he had
been staying known as ____ (a) Men’s
house (b) ultima building (c) sacred tower
(d) Alternative guest house
48. The narrator stays in ____ apartments for
months without a job (a) Mary’s (b)
Kimbro‟s (c) Tatlock‟s (d) Jemmy‟s
49. The narrator witnessed the eviction of ___
(a) an 82 year old man with his daughter (b)
a 34 year old woman with her son (c) an 87
year old man with his wife (d) a 92 year
old woman with her inlaw
50. The eviction of the characters let the
narrator and other blacks to (a) beat up the
marshal incharge of the eviction (b) leave
America (c) divorce their wives (d) kill the
marshal incharge of the eviction.
51. The narrator restores peace given a speech,
on dispossession urging the people to (a)
return the people back to their apartment
(b) Lynch the marshal (c) Kill all enemies
(d) donate money to the victims
52. The policeman brand the people standing
on the way of eviction as (a) thieves (b)
rioters (c) animals (d) wasted generations
53. Who made the narrator the spokes man for
the Harlem district with the Brotherhood (a)
Tatlock (b) Jim True blood (c) Brother
Wrestrum (d) Brother Jack
54. The narrator is sent to _____ to learn more
about the brotherhood (a) brother Hambro
(b) Brother Kimbro 9c0 Brother Wrestrum
(d) Brockway
55. The narrator became the head of the
Harlem district after ____ Months (a) two
(b) six (c) eight (d) four
56. from the police, (a) he’s shot dead (b) he‟s
LOOK BACK IN ANGER
1. Look Back in Anger was published in what
year (a) 1980 (b) 1975 (c) 1954 (d) 1956
2. The play is the first recognized example of
(a) Force (b) Kitchen sink drama (c)
Tragedy of blood (d) Ballot
3. The cultural back drop to the play is (a)
racism (b) rise and fall of the British
empire (c) Government negligene (d) the
rise of the British empire
4. The temporal setting is (a) mid 1940s (b)
Mid 1960s (c) mid 1950s (d) mid 1990s
5. The physical setting is (a) Midands,
England (b) South Chicago (c) Pittsburgh
(d) Newyork
6. Both Jimmy and Cliff Lewis run a/an_____
(a) Sweet stall (b) doll business (c) Paint
industry (d) table tennis game.
7. The first act of the play opens on a ____ (a)
Monday march (b) Saturday April (c)
Sunday, April (d) Friday, December
8. As the play opens Jimmy and Cliff are busy
ready (a) Saturday papers (b) Sunday papers
(c) Monday papers (d) Wednesday papers
9. As the play opens, Alison is busy (a) cooking
in the kitchen (b) Preparing to sweep (c)
Ironing (d) washing
10. Alison and Jimmy days play what game?
(a) Bear and Squirrel (b) Chess (c) ludo
(d) Baseball
11. Alison‟s friend is (a) Helena (b) Jennifer
(c) Mitshelle (d) stephnanie
12. Both Helena and Allison belong to the (a)
Upper class (b) Middle class (c) working
class (d) Non of the above
13. Both Jimmy and Cliff belong to the (a)
working class (b) Middle class (c) Upper
class (d) All of the above
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14. Allison‟s first months with Jimmy is spent
living with his working class friend known as
(a) colonel Redfern (b)Hugh Turner (C)
Benson stone (d) Mark love
15. Jimmy‟s father was injured fighting in the
_____ civil war (a) Itlian (b) Spanish (c)
American (d) British
16. Allison‟s father is (a) colonel John (b)
Colonel Redfern (c) Colonel Emmanuel (d)
Colonel Coaster.
UNEXPECTED JOY AT DAWN
1. The novel is set in (a) sierra-Leone and
Nigeria (b) Ghana and Nigeria (c) Ghana
and Zambia (d) Nigeria and Togo
2. The immediate settings are (a) Accra and
Lagos (b) Abuja and Kumasi (c) Calabar and
Accra (d) Lagos and Kumasi
3. The major characters are two blood relations
known as (a) Nii moses Tackie and Mama
Orojo (b) Massa and Aaron Tsuuru (c) Joe
Boye and Massa (d) N ii Moses and
Aaron Tsuuru
4. The temporal setting of the novel is (a) Late
1960, Ghana and early 80s Nigeria (b) Late
1970 Ghana and early 1990s Nigeria (c) early
1950s Ghana and late 1960, Nigeria (d)
Early 1970s ghana and early 1980s Nigeria.
5. The assistant Manager at Expense bank is
____ (a) Masa (b) Moses Nii (c) Tsuu (d)
Mama Orojo
6. Moses Nii is in his (a) Late twenties (b)
eearly twenties (c) early thirties (d) early
forties.
7. Moses Nii is the husband of the ailing (a)
Massa (b) Mama Oroju (c) Tsuuru (d)
Appieah
8. Nii goes to ____ market and sees the
collapsed buildings (a) Agbogbloshie (b)
Okerebute (c) Kantamanto (d) Ogbudile
QUESTIONS ON JOURNEY OF THE
MAGI
1. Journey of the magi exemplifies A. historical
allusion B. classical allusion C. political
allusion D. biblical allusion
2. The journey of the magi is a good example of
A. dramatic poem B. Ode C. narrative
poem D. ballad
3. The overriding imagery in the journey of the
Magi is A. Visual B. tactile C. auditory D.
Thermal
Essentially, the journey of the magi is A. a quest
for spiritual rebirth B. a journey to eternity C.
 OBJECTIVE Questions on
A MDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
1. What genre type is a midsummer night‟s
dream (a) Melodrama (b) tragedy (c) farce
(d) Comedy
2. In the play the Duke of Athens is (a) Egeus
(b) Hermia (c) Oberon (d) Theseus
3. The two characters who are in love with
Hermia are (a) Lysander and Oberon (b)
Lysander and Egeus (c) Lysander and
Demetrius (d) Bottom and Quince
4. The King and queen of the fairies are (a)
Theseus and Hypolyta (b) beron and Hermia
(c) Oberon and Titania
5. The physical setting of the play is (a) Venice
(b) Athens (c) Mauritania (d) Cyprus
6. The beginning of the play presents a dialogue
between (a) Theseus and Hyppolyta (b)
Oberon and Titania (c) Egeus and Theseus
(d) Lysander and Hermia
7. Helena suffers rejection in the hands of (a)
Egeus (b) Oberon (c) Demetrius (d)
Lysander.
8. The play within play in the play is a comedy
on the death of (a) pyramus and Thisbe (b)
Thalia and Venus (c) Erato and Polyhymnia
(d) Hermia and Lysander.
9. In the play –within-play Nik –Buttom the
weaver plays the role of (a) Pyramus, a
lover (b) Jude the criminal (c) Olympus the
ghost (d) Thisbe the lawyer
10. Francis flute, the Bellows – mender plays
the role of (a) Thisbe, pyramus love (b) a
wondering knight (c) Thisbe a tyrant (d)
None of the above
11. Robin starveling the tailor is to play the role
of (a) Thisbe’s mother (b) Pyramus father
(c) Thisber sister (d) Thisbe‟s – in – law
12. Tom Snout, the tinker plays the role of (a)
pyramus father (b) Thisbe‟s servant (c)
pyramus mother (d) none of the above
13. Who assigned roles to the characters (a)
Bottom (b) Quince the carpenter (c)
Oberon (d) Titania
14. The favorite place for the fairies is (a) the
cave (b) the woods (c) market square (d)
backyard
15. Hermia must obey her father, else the
Athenian law against her is to (a) Sentence
her to death or banish her (b) Sentence her
to death or vow for a single life (c) Marry
her by force or rape her (d) None of the
above
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16. At the beginning of the play, Egeus is upset
because (a) Lysander has stolen Hermia
(b) Demetrius doesn‟t want to marry Hermia
(c) Helena is rejected by Demetrius (d)
Oberon married Titania
17. The vow of a single life is taken at (A)
Oberon‟s Altar (b) Diana’s Altar (c) Puck‟s
Altar (c) Athenian‟s palace.
18. How many days was given to Hermia by
Theseus to make her decision (a) three (b)
five (c) four (d) six
19. A midsummer Night‟s dream is a comedy
on (a) crossed lovers (b) spirit lovers (c)
just ferries (d) Theseus and Hippohyta
20. A midsummer Night‟s dreams was first
performed at Royal Court palace, London in
(a) 1905 (b) 1605 (c) 1808 (d) 1888
21. The play was written between (a) 1595
and 1596 (b) 1564 and 1616 (c) 1502 and
1606 (d) 1550 and 1`556
1. Lord Tennyson‟s “Crossing the Bar” ends
on a note of A. determination B. optimism
c. Approval D. Joy
2. As an allegorical poetic piece, Alfred Lord
Tennyson‟s Crossing the Bar” contains A.
Imagery B. Symbols C. Contrast D.
Litotes
3. Naa Yomo in Faceless by Amma Darko is
older than Maa Tsuru in with A. 42 years
B. 39 years C. 49 years D. 60 years
4. Poison‟s brutality in Amma Darko‟s
faceless is fuelled by his A. grandma B.
step father C. step sister D. uncle
5. The courier that delivered the parcel to
members of MUTE in Amma Darko‟s
faceless was trained to carry out his duties
with A. Hostility B. smiles C. arrogance
D. Hatred.
6. Melon Bosom, Kwei‟s lover in Faceless is
so called because A. she has large breasts
B. she has large buttocks C. she has large
hips D. she has large checks.
7. Dina‟s marriage to her Campus boyfriend
in Faceless by Amma Darko failed after A.
seven years B. two years C. five years D.
four years
8. In Lonely Days by Bayo Adebowale, who
owns the labankada cap? A. Lanwa B.
Ayanwale C. Ajumobi D. Olonade
9. In Lonely Days by Bayo Adebowale what
is the significance of the labankada cap? A.
peace and everlasting happiness B.
 Abundance C. Wealth and prosperity D.
self sufficiency.
10. In lonely Days by Bayo Adebowale, Bage
cap is owned by A. Olonade B. Lanwa C.
Ajumobi D. Ayanwale
11. In lonely Days by Bayo Adebowale, who
owns the Gobi cap? A. Lanwa B.
Ayanwale C. Olanade D. Ajumobi
12. In Lonely Days by Bayo Adebowale, what
is the significance of Gobi Cap? A.
Abundance and self sufficiency B. Love
C. Peace D. wealth
13. In Kufi From Adebowale‟s Lonely Days
time is counted by all the following except
A. Length of shadows B., direction of the
wind C. call of the cock d. yapping of
the wild dogs
14. In Kufi, Silence is broken by all the
following except A. Yapping of the wild
dogs B. cocko of the dove D. Sound of
the go-away bird d. shooting of the owl.
15. Ajumobi died ____ months ago before the
story begins in Lonely Days by Bayo
Adebowale A. Nine B. Six C. two D. five
16. Which of the following is not correct about
Kufi A. wife beating B. gossiping C.
adultery D. superstition
17. When going to Oyedeji market, which of
the following villages does Yaremi pause to
rest before her journey A. Abonkele B.
Fabotoki c. Lagbe D. Fadina
18. In “Piano and Drums” by Gabriel Okara,
“break of day” signifies A. Innocence B.
dilemma C. love for Africa D regrets
19. “Deafening Silence” contains A.
oxymoron B. antithesis C.paradox D.
Pathetic fallacy
20. When Dedewe‟s husband died, A. she was
beaten B. given libation to lick C. locked
and asked to confess D. asked to sing a
dirge
21. When Radeke‟s husband died A. she was
given libation to lick B. a special barber
attended to her C. she was locked and
cursed D. she was asked to sing a dirge
22. When Fayoyin‟s husband died she was A.
given libation and a barber to attend to
her B. cursed by all C. Sent away from the
village D. asked to confess
23. Who promised to make Yaremi mother of
twins A. Ayanwale B. Lanwa C. Olonade
D. Wande
24. Yaremi‟s philosophy of life is there is A.
Joy in keeping malice B. Joy in dyeing
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tafetta C. Joy really in sharing D. Joy in
farming
25. Which of the following best describes
literature A. It tells the story of great men
and women B. It is reflection of man’s
life C. It is a recount of past events D. It
describes what happen and cannot happen
26. The main female character in a play is
called a_____ A. Hero B. Heroine C.
Clown D. Antagonist
27. Enjambment is the poetic term referring to
the use of ____ A. Run-on-line B. Rhyme
line C. Rhythm D. Metre
28. Poem of fourteen lines is called ____ A.
Eulogy B. Dirge C. Sonnet D. Ode
29. A casual reference to a figure or an event is
regarded as ______ A. Alliteration B.
Allegory C. Allusion D. Anthology
30. When a nice and pleasant statement is used
in place of an unpleasant one in describing
something. It is called A. Paradox B. Irony
C. Innuends D. Euphemism
31. Man proposes, but God disposes, what
figure of speech does this belong. A.
Hyperbole B. Epigram C. Climax D.
antithesis
32. Deus-ex-machina is a ____ word which
means A. French/God of machine B.
German/Father of mercy C. Greek/God of
Machine D. Latin/God out of the
machine
33. A play where characters are engaged in
ridiculous actions that are extremely funny
is referred to as a/an_____ A. Farce B.
Comedy C. Parody E. Epic
34. An author sustains his reader‟s interest
through the use of ____ A. suspense B.
Ambiguity C. prologue D. Anecdote
35. A figure of speech in which an absent
person or an object is addressed as if
referred to is ___ A. Assonance B.
Apostrophe C. the love in human nature D.
the romantic in humans
36. Romantic poetry emphasizes A. The
beauty of nature B. Intimate Relationship
C. the love in human race D. The romantic
in humans.
37. In drama, the term “denouement” is used
___ A. As a figure of speech B. For the
point of highest dramatic tension C. When
crises in the play is resolved d. when the
hero‟s tragic flaw is resolved.
38. Catharsis is experienced A. After one has
written a play B. When a play is still being
 staged C. Before watching a play D. After
watching a play.
39. Which of the following is common to all
literature? A. Tragedy B. Chorus C.
Language D. Action
Read the extract below and use it to answer
question 45-50
But the towering earth was tired of sitting in
one position, she moved
Suddenly and the houses crumbled the
Mountains moved horribly, and the work
Of a million years was lost
40. The image depicted in the extract is one of
___ A. Destruction B. Movement C.
Happiness D. Admiration
41. An African author who has written plays,
poems and prose is ____ A. Wole Soyinka
B. Zaynab Alkali C. Chinua D. Flora
Nwapa
42. The division of a long poem in literature is
called ____ (a) Cadence (b) Canto (c)
Chiche (d) Bard
43. An over used expression that has lost is
meaning is (a) Aesthetics (b) Cliche (c)
Diction (d) Gothic romance
44. A poem used to celebrate an impending
marriage is (a) Prothalamion (b)
Epithalamion (c) Epic (d) Ode
45. The skill in writing poetry is (a) Cadence
(b) poesy (c) Scanasion (d) Canto
46. ______ is a statement that is often satirical
(a) Anagram (b) Epigram c) Epic (d)
Epithalamion
47. A song of lamentation is known as (a)
Dirge (b) Style (c) Elegy (d) Epitaph
48. The persuasive use of language in a literary
work is known as (a) persuasion (b)
rhetorical question (c) rhetorics (d)
erotema
49. All the work of a writer in literature is
called (a) Orature (b) Ouevre (c) Onato (d)
50. The last work of a writer is called (a) Agon
(b) Romance (c) Swan (d) Synopsis
51. The beauty of a literature work is called
____ (a) catastrophe (b) cartharsis (c)
pathos (d) Aesthetics
52. _______ is a poem written on a return
journey (a) travelogue (b) nostos (c) ode
(d) prothalamion
53. The division of an English sonnet is (a)
Scansion (b) Cadence (c) Volta (d) Rustic
54. A poem used to celebrate peaceful
happenings in a rural areas is called (a) Ode
(b) pastoral (c) Elegy (d) Dirge
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55. PICK the Odd item from the following (a)
catastrophe (b) Prose (c) poetry (d) Drama
56. In faceless kabria calls fofo….A Fati B
Tettey B Kayayoo C Akwashi D Mensah
57. A story that exemplifies moral thesis, in
which animals talk and act like human
beings, is called (a) gothic poem (b) satire
(c) fable (d) Anecdote
58. English sonnet rhymes (a) AB AB ABBA
cde cde (b) AA BB ABBA cde cde (c)
abab cdcd efef gg (d) ABBA ABBA
cdcdcd
59. An attitude of a writer towards the subject
matter is ____ (a) tone (b) Mood (c) style
(d) theme
60. An angle in which a writer views is
character is called (a) stream of
consciousness (b) travelogue (c) Point of
view (d) point of discovering
71. “Jovinians‟ pride begins in what month A.
June B. February C. May D. April.
72. The animal Jovinian wanted to hunt in A.
Ass B. Hart C. sparrow D. Tiger
73. Jovinian‟s encounter is as follows A.
Hermit, porter, Hugh and the Duke B.
Porter, Hugh, Duke, Peter, Christopher
and the Hermit C. All of the above D.
None of the above
74. The proud king takes the dimension of the
A. Ballad B. epic C. Epithalamion D.
elegy
75. Jovinian recalled his ordeals which took
place A. 50 years earlier B. 40 years
earlier C. 30 years earlier D. 20 years
earlier
76. The king that ruled after Jovinian was A.
humble B. arrogant C. sick and tired D.
dirty
77. The poem has A. 119 stanzas B. 117
stanzas C. 120 D. 130 stanzas
78. The proud king has a total of A. 820 lines
B. 849 lines C. 900 lines D. 1000 lines E.
400 lines
79. How old is Christopher a – agreen A. 49
B. 50 C. 69 D. 79
80. What time of the night it is
I do not know
Except that like some fish
Doped out of the deep
I have bobbed up belly wise
J.P. Clark: Night rain
81. Which of the following figures of speech is
employed above? A. Alliteration B.
 Assonance C. Hyperbole D.
onomatopoeia
82. From Debbie‟s room comes the sound of
the type writer. It is an old mechanical type
writer, its noises are metallic and clicking.
It chitters onto the end of a line, there is a
clash of the returns and the musical or
almost musical cling of the little bell.
As Byatt: Artwork
83. A striking figure of speech used here is A.
Onomatopoeia B. Zeugma C. Assonance
D. paradox
84. They also serve those who stand and wait
contains A. synecdoche B. Metonymy C.
Oxymoron D. Antithesis
85. Most of the stanzas of the proud king
rhyme A. ababbcd B. ababbcc C.
ababbca D. abaabbc
86. A play that tells a single story, has one
setting and takes place within a specified
period is said to A. be heavily moralistic B.
be cohesive clearly C. possess the unities
D. have tragic elements
87. The branch of knowledge that place
emphasis on beauty is A. Censure B.
aesthetics C. Philosophy D. philology
You cannot know
And should not bother
Tides and markets come and go
And so shall your mother
88. The rhyme scheme used in the above
excerpt is A. monorhyme B. eye rhyme
C. couplet D. Alternate
89. The overriding device is A. Metaphor B.
Allegory C. Antitheses D. paradox
90. Pick the odd A. time B. conflict C. Place
D. action
91. The unbroken flow of thought in a
character is ____ A. interior monologue
B. monologue C. Aside D. soliloquy
92. Dialogue is important in drama because it
A. helps the audience to improve their
English B. it usually funny and lively C.
helps the audience to relax D. prolongs the
action of the play E. reveals the minds of
the characters
93. A novel is A. a long prose narrative fiction
B. an interesting story about a hero C. a
prose writing that deals with various people
D. a long story in which characters
personifies abstract qualities E. a prose
writing about the lives of great or
interesting people
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94. Identify the odd item in the following list
A. prose B. poetry C. melodrama D.
catastrophe E. drama
95. The tendency of words to echo the meaning
by the actual sound is called A.
onomatopoeia B. assonance C. alliteration
D. rhyme E. phonetic
96. The expression All the World is a Stage is a
good example of the figure of speech
known as A. personification B. paradox C.
onomatopoeia D. simile E. metaphor
97. I have wandered on the wilderness
The great wilderness men call life
The rain has beaten me
And the sharp stumps cut as keen as
knives
98. For the writer, living in an experience to be
described as A. pleasant B. difficult C.
rewarding D. exciting E. bracing
99. The plot of story generally refers to the A.
intrigue made by a character against the
hero B. intrigue made by the hero against
the character C. way the writer begins the
story D. way the writer ends the story E.
way in which the events of the story are
organized.
100. the Pulley is an example of (a) Synecdoche
(b) Personification (c) hyperbole (d)
simile
101. This question is based on Richard Wright's
Native Son. 'Light Flooded the room and
revealed a black boy standing in a narrow
space between two iron beds, rubbing his
eyes with the back of his hand. The style of
the lines above is (a) narrative (b) dramatic
(c) Descriptive (d) expository
102. This question is based on Selected Poems
from Johnson, R. Vincent. T. (eds.): A
selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola
African Verse 'all Peters with petered out
desires' the line above in Adeoti's Ambush
is an example of (a) Pun (b) alliteration (c)
metaphor
103. This question is based on Selected Poems
from Johnson, R. Vincent. T. (eds.): A
selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola
African Verse '.... and my boots have
suddenly become too reluctant to walk me.'
the persona in the above excerpts in
Hallowell's the Dining Table is (a)
exhausted (b) excited (c) indifferent
104. This question is based on General Literary
Principles. A clue to an event that will
happen later in a work of art is (a)
 Flashback (b) foreshadowing (c)
premonition (d) digression
105. This question is based on Literary
Appreciation 'I am on the world's extreme
corner." Kofi Awoonor: Song of Sorrow
shows that he persona is (a) indifferent (b)
sad (c) angry (d) in pain
106. This question is based on Richard Wright's
Native songs. Bigger Kills Mary due to (a)
fear (b) envy (c) hatred (d) distrust
107. This question is based on William
Shakespeare's Othello. 'All's one-Good
faith, how foolish are our minds! If Ido die
before thee, Prithee, shroud me in one of
those same sheets.' The pleas in the excerpt
above is made by (a) Desdemona to
Emilia (b) Othello to Iago (c) Iago to
Emilia (d) Cassio to Bianca
108. This question is based on William
Shakespeare's Othello. 'She is abused, stol'n
from me and corrupted by spells and
medicines bought of mountebanks,' the
excerpt above refers to (a) Brabantio's
suspicion (b) Iago's distrust of Emilia (c)
Othello's suspicion (d) Cassio's disaffection
for lago
109. This question is based on Richard Wright's
Native Son. Mr. Dalton is of the opinion
that Negroes are happier when they are (a)
Together (b) Servants in the white family
(c) Educated (d) given some respect
110. This question is based on Bayo
Adebowale's Lonely Days. The women of
Kufi are powerful (a) Singers (b) farmers
(c) Traders (d) widows
111. This question is based on Bayo
Adebowale's Lonely Days. The widows in
the land are joined by the loss of (a) Love
(b) Family (c) Fame and wealth (d) dignity
and status
112. This question is based on Literary
Appreciation. Then I sat myself quiet... for
five And forty turbulent years I waited,
sapped, famished, for love to wake from
her sickly slumber; The figure of speech in
the last line above is (a) assonance (b)
personification (c) metaphor (c) metaphor
(d) oxymoron
113. This question is based on General literary
Principles. Comedy of Lower standard is!
(a) farce (b) Comedy (c) melodrama (d)
tragic comedy
114. This question is based on General literary
Principles. In literature, local colour is (a)
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Universal (b) restricted (c) only English
(d) only American
115. This question is based on General Literary
Principles. The totality of the effect
produced on a reader of a literary work is
(a) tone (b) mood (c) plot (d) diction
116. This question is based on Literary
Appreciation. We have rain but hate to
plant. We have the heat and the glory of the
rainbow. But we kill our sons with hurtful
glee. The poet's feeling can be described as
that of (a) Disappointment (b)
indifference (c) anxiety (d) joy
117. This question is based on General Literary
Principle. An art form in which singers and
musicians perform a dramatic work
combining text and musical score is called
(a) concert (b) opera (c) theatre (d)
pantomime
118. This question is based on Selected Poems
from Johnson, R. et a Vincent, t. (eds.): A
selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola, A.
African Verse. Awoonor's The Anvil and
the Hammer presents a picture of the (a)
Past and present (b) past and future (c)
future (d) Olden days
119. This question is based on Selected poems
from Johnson, R. et a Vincent, T. (eds.): A
selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola, A.
African Verse. The tone of diop's Vanity is
one of (a) anger (b) pity (c) joy (d) Scorn
120. This question is based on Amrna Darko's
Faceless. Sodom and Gomorrah used in the
novel is an example of (a) mixed metaphor
(b) allusion (c) synecdoche (d) euphemism
121. This question is based on Frank Ogodo
Ogbeche's harvest of Corruption. Aloho is
warned about associating with Ochuole
because the latter is (a) too sophisticated
(b) proud (c) mischievous (d) born-again
122. This question is based on Frank Ogodo
Ogeche's harvest of Corruption. Aloho
perceives her pregnancy as a form of (a)
reward (b) blessing (c) punishment (d)
injustice
123. This question is based on Frank Ogodo
Ogbeche's harvest of Corruption. The play
can be referred to as (a) dramatic irony (b)
allegory (c) fable (d) satire
124. This question is based on Selected Poems
from Jonson, R. et al Vincent, T. (eds.): A
selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola, A.
African Verse. Mystic rhythm in the third
line of the first stanza of Okora's Piano and
 Drums connotes that drum (a) express
mood 9) provides music (c) carries a
definite message (d) are for pleasurable
dancing
125. This question is based on selected Poems
from Johnson, R. et a vincent, t. (eds.): A
Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola, A.
African Verse. One vivid device in Blake's
The School Boy is (a) Oxymoron (b)
Rhetorical question (c) ironical statement
(d) metaphor
126. This question is based on selected Poems
from Johnson, R. Et a Vincent, T. (eds.) A
Selection of African Poetry; Gemisola, A .
African Verse Peters; Gbemisola, A.
African Verse. Peter's The Panic of
Growing Older can be referred to as 9a)
Metaphysical (b) philosophical (c) satirical
(d) Metaphorical
127. This question is based on Selected Poems
from Johnson, R. et al Vincent, t. (eds.): A
selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola, A.
African Verse. the mood of the persona in
Tennyson's Crossing the Bar is that of (a)
Pain (b) frustration (c) hope (d) Love
128. This question is based on Frank Ogodo
Ogbeche's harvest of Corruption.
According to Ochuole, government job is
(a) a waste of time (b) time consuming (c)
good for hardworking youths (d) an avenue
to personalize public fund
129. This question is based on Richard Wright's
Native Son. Weekly, Bigger is to paid (a)
twenty dollars (b) twenty five dollars (c)
thirty dollars (d) thirty five dollars
130. This question is based on Amma Darko's
Faceless. The novel focuses on (a) (a)
Stuboorn children (b) negligent parents (c)
greedy politicians (d) peer group influence
131. This question is based on William
Shakespeare's Othello. 'Let him do his
spite; My services which I have done the
signiory, Shall out-tongue his complaints.'
This yet to Know, Which, when I know that
boasting is an honour,' The speaker in the
excerpt above is (a) Brabantio (b) Othello
(c) Cassio (d) Lago
132. This question is based on Frank Ogodo
Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption 'En! En!
En! You have come again.... I am not
always comfortable when you start dishing
out this your born-again stuff...' the speaker
in excerpt above is referring to (a) Ochuole
(b) Aloho
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133. This question is based on Willaim
Shakespeare's Othello. The play is first
staged at (a) Liverpool stadium (b)
Manchester stadium (c) Whitehall palace
London (d) London Theatre
134. This question is based on Amma Darko's
Faceless. Fofo chooses to spend the night in
front of the provision store because (a) It is
a Sunday (b) she is ill (c) She does not
want to risk losing her job (d) She has
nowhere to go
135. This question is based on Selected Poems
from Johnson, R. et a Vincent, t. (eds.): A
Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola, A.
African Verse. Morris' The Proud King is
(a) Didactic (b) pastoral (c) traditional (d)
Lyrical
136. This question is based on Bayo
Adebowale's Lonely Days. According to
the novel, Labankada signifies (a) wealth
and peace (b) wealth and life (c) wealth
and prosperity (d) wealth and protection
137. Pun as a literary device deals with (a)
Playing on words (b) arrangement of
words (c) placing two opposite phrases (d)
placing words side by side
138. A device used by a writer to recall past
event in a literary work is (a) anti-climax
(b) flashback (c) foreshadowing (d)
Interlude
139. A character that is always against the
interest of the protagonist is (a) hero (b)
heroine (c) opposition (d) villain
140. The use of sound pattern to suggest
meaning in poetry is (a)rhythm (b) mimics
(c) lyric (d) metonymy
141. A conscious imitation of a literary work by
another with the aim of ridicule is (a)
mimesis (b) performance (c) mockery (d)
parody
142. The use of gestures to communicate in
drama is known as (a) burlesque (b)
soliloquy c) mime (d) melodrama
143. A short and witty remark is (a) a
limerick(b) a tercet (c) an epigram (d) a
litotes
144. An expression that signifies a whole
through its significant part is (a)
synaesthesia (b) synecdoche (c) metonymy
(d) allegory
145. A structural arrangement of units of
composition by which one element of equal
importance with another is similarly placed
 is called (a) repetition (b) paradox (c)
refrain (d) parallelism
146. The pride that contributes to the fall of a
tragic character in a play is known as (a)
Harmatia (b) catharsis (c) Hubris (d)
epistasis
147. A metrical foot of two stressed or long
syllables is called (a) a spondee (b) a
trochee (c) an anapest (d) an iamb
148. A poetic devices in which an idea in a line
runs into another is called (a) Rhyme
scheme (b) enjambment (c) end rhyme (d)
pathos
149. Who is the plaintiff in the novel? a)The
Daltons b)Bigger c)David Buckley d) Max
150. Who is the Defendant a) David Buckley b)
Max c)Bigger Thomas d) Mr Britney
151. The novel is set in what season a) summer
b)spring c) winter d)Autumn
152. The first character to speak in Native Son is
a) Mrs Thomas b) Mr Dalton c) Bigger d)
Vera
153. Following the crime of Bigger, many
negroes were a) killed b) sacked c)
imprisoned d) lynched
154. Bigger was brought down from the building
with a) splash of water b)gunshot c)
matchet d) stone
155. Who initiated the robbery plan a) Jack b)
Bigger c) GH d Gus
156. Without killing Mary, Bigger is still guilty
because of a) colour difference b) pride c)
his animalistic nature d) sturboness
157. Several hundreds of negroes were sacked
by their employers following a) Bigger’s
crime b doc's report
158. Mrs Dalton has been blind for a) 20 years
b) 10 years c) 23 years d) 4 years
159. The election in the narrative comes up in a)
April b) June c) July d September
160. Boris Maxi‟s chamber is a) Defendant
Union b) Labour Defenders c) relief
agency d) great builders
161. Mr Dalton has been in Chicago for 50 yrs
b 40 yrs
162. Cook county jail is painted a) red b) white
163. Bigger faints at inquest when a)
confronted with body of slain girl b) he
saw the crowd
164. According to Bigger, Mary and her white
folks call the blacks a) dog b) cow
c)monkey d fowl
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165. During Bigger‟s trial, the court adjourns for
one hour and reconvenes at a) one o clock
b) three o clock
166. Who told the story of Bigger being sent to
the reform school a) a man at the juvenile
court
167. How did the doc describe bigger a) mean
and thin but stupid b) mean and bad but
sane
168. The doc also reports that bigger had a) torn
the clothes of his table
169. How many coloured waitresses said bigger
came to the restaurant? a) four b) five
170. Which of these best describes the
relationship between the blacks and whites
a) employer/employee relationship b)
absurd/realistic relationship
171. The relationship between the blacks and the
whites is described as a) master /servant
relationship b animal/huma
172. The relationship between the whites and the
blacks is one of a)oppressor/oppressed b)
Animal/human relationship
173. The indictment of Bigger is contained in
what number of the law a) 105-567 b) 666-
983
174. Mrs Dalton got blind when she was a) 43 b)
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175. Native son is a form of a) Allegory b satire
176. After impregnating Maa Tsuuru, kweis
family treats him like a a) renegade b)
leper c. foreigner d desperado
177. In kufi, the death of a husband is treated
a suspicion b indifference c elation
178. The family that donates to charity is a)
Dalton’s b) Thomases c)
179. This question is based on Frank Ogodo
Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption. The play
portrays the judiciary as A. unserious and
lenient B. consistent and just C. corrupt
and weak D. patronising and self-
righteous,
180. This question is based on Frank Ogcdo of
Corruption. Two dominant themes of the
play A. honesty and decency B. immorality
and greed C. poverty and education D.
weeding and planting.
181. This question is based on Frank Ogodo
Ogbeche's “Harvest of Corruption” It can
be deduced from the play that A. drug
pushing is lucrative B. no crime will go
unpunished C. the wealthy also cry
D.people will always complain.
182. This question is based on Frank Ogodo
Ogbeche's “Harvest of Corruption” “Trust
me. My duty is to convince her to play ball
with him and then the usual commission
keeps rolling in, shee you get?.."The
speaker is the excerpt above is A. AlohoB.
OgeyiC.Ogeyi D.Ochuole.
183. This question is based on Frank Ogodo
Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption. (ACP
Yakubu in his office),,. How can that old
crook of a Judge acquit and discharge a
very clear case of cocaine pushing. What
evidence is he looking for? The technique
used in the excerpt above is called. A.
interior monologue B. aposirophe C.
dramatic monologue D. soliloquy.
184. This question is based on William
Shakespeare's Othello. "Though I do hate
him as I do hate pains, yet for necessity of
present life, I must show out a Hag and sign
of love, which is indeed bad sign... The
speaker of the excerpt above can be
described as A. trusting B. a concubine
C. a schemer D. ambitious.
185. This question is based on William
Shakespeare's Othello. Fathers, from hence
trust not-your daughters minds. By what
you see them act Is there not charms. By
which the property of youth and maidhood
May be abused? The speaker in the excerpt
above addresses A. Othello B. Lago C.
Brabantio D. Roderigo.
186. This question is based on William
Shakespeare's Othello. "... But, masters,
here's money for yon; and the general so
likes your music that he desires yon, for
love's sake, to make no more noise with it"
The excerpt above exemplifies A.
euphemism B, oxymoron C. sarcasm D.
paradox.
187. This question is based on William
Shakespeare's, Othello... Fathers, from
hence trust not your daughters‟ minds. By
what you see them act. Is there not charms.
By which the property of youth and
maidhood May be abused?.” In the excerpt
it is implied that daughters are A.
Lascivious B. petty C. pretentious
188. This question is based on William
Shakespeare‟s Othello. Othello wins
Desdemona‟s heart by stories of his A.
wars and adventures B. love and
escapades C. fights and defeats D. wealth
and affluence.
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189. This question is based on Amma Darko's
Faceless, The dominant tone of the novel is
one ofA. bitterness B. hope C. fear D. joy.
190. This question is based on Am ma Darko's
Faceless. The narrative style adopted in the
novel is A. second persons B. Third
person C. interior monologue D. first
person.
191. This question is based on Bayo
Adebowale's Lonely Days. The cap-picking
ceremony is to A. break the strong will of
Yaremi B. make Yaremi remarry C.
establish that she is wicked D. prove that
Ajumobi is not the best.
192. This question is based on Bayo
Adebowale's Lonely Days, Yaremi's main
job is A. selling cassava B. harvesting
cassava C. dyeing taffeta cloths D. sewing
taffeta cloths.
193. This question is based on Bayo
Adebowale's Lonely Days. A major
superstition associated .with widows in
Kufi is A. reincarnation B. witchcraft C.
that infertility is caused by the gods D.
existence of ghosts.
194. This question is based on Richard Wright's
Native Son. The character which represents
the typical black American woman who
suffers double yoke of racial and masculine
oppression is A. PeggyB. Mary C. Bessie
D. Vera
195. This question is based on Richard Wright's
Native Son, Bigger feels fulfilled in the
novel because he successfully A. frightens
his younger sister B.hurts the pride of the
whites C helps his employers D. abuses
Bessie his girlfriend!
196. This question is based on Richard Wright's
Native Son, The novel can be described as
A. satirical B. metaphysical C. paradoxical
D. allegorical,
197. This question is based on Selected Poems
from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry
from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black
Africa; St-nanu, K.E. and Vincent, T,(ed.):
A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola
A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The
Penguin Book of English Verse And
Nwoga, D (ed.): West African Verse. One
of the thematic preoccupations of
Awoonor's The Anvil and the Hammer is
A. clash of cultures B. revival of
colonialism C. the changing face of
 colonial masters D. the good attributes of
colonalism.
198. This question is based on Selected Poems
from Johnson, R. et al(eds.); New Poetry
front Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Stack
Africa; Senaou, K.E. and Viacen T, T.(ed.):
A Selection of African Poetry Gbemisola
A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The
Penguin Book of English Version Nwoga,
D,(ed.): West African Verse. Verse.
According to Okara's Piano and Drums are
musical instruments of A. contradictory
tunes E. complementary tune C . different
cultural milieus D. different rhythmic
appeals'.
199. This question is based on Selected Poems
from Johnson, R. et al (eds.); New Poetry
from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems Black
Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vincent, T.(ed.):
A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisoia
A.: talked Soles; Donatus West African
Verse. According to Adeoti, the waiting
disaster is A. all encompassing B. selective
C. only imaginary D. unprecedented.
200. This question is based on Selected Poems
from Johnson, R,.et al (eds.): New poetry
from Africa; Soyinka, (and poems of Black
Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (ed).
A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola
A.: Need Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The
Penguin Book of English Verse and
Nwoga, D. (ed). West Africa Verse. In
Diop 's Vanity the persona is A. mourning
B. ululating C, lamenting D.
meditating.
201. This question is based on Selected Poems
from Johnson, R.et al(eds.): New Poetry
from Africa; Soyinka, fed); Poems of Black
Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A
Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.:
Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The
Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga,
D.(ed.): West African Verse. In Morris' The
Proud King, Jovinian ascended the throne
when he was A. poor B. rich C. young D.
old.
202. This question is based on Selected Poems
from Johnson, R. et al(eds.): New Poetry
from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black
Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed.):A
Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.:
Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The
Penguin Book of English Verseatid Nwoga
D.(ed.); West African Verse. The mood of
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Peter's The Panic of Growing Older can be
described as A. sober B. boastful C. defiant
D. languid.
203. This question is based on Selected Poems
from Johnson, R, et al(eds.): New Poetry
from Africa; Soyinka, (ed) Poems of Black
Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent,
T.(ed.)":A Selection of African Poetry;
Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward,
J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English
Verseawl Nwoga, D.(ed.): West African
Verse. Tennyon's Crossing the Bar is A. a
celebration of life B. an appreciation of
nature C. identification of death D. a
celebration of the final passage.
204. This question is based on Selected Poems
from Johnson, R. et al(eds.): New Poetry
from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black
Africa; Senanu K,E. and Vincent, T.(ed.): A
Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.:
Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(eti.); The
Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga,
D.(ed.): West African Verse. If goodness
lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to
my breast” The literary device in the extract
above from Herbert's The Pulley is A.
metonymy B. personification C.
oxymoron D. irony.
205. This question is based on Selected Poems
from Johnson, R. et al(eds.): New Poetry
from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black
Africa; Senanu, K.E. anti Vincent, T.(ed,);
A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola
A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The
Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga.
D.(ed.); West African Verse."How can the
bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and
sing?'The lines above from Blake's The
School Boy is an example of A.
personification B. rhetorical question C.
interior monologue D. synecdoche.
206. This question is based on Selected Poems
from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry
from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black
Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed,):
A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola
A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The
Penguin Book of English Krraeand Nwoga,
D.(ed.): West African Verse, '...where
guerillas walk the land while crocodiles
surf.” The lines above in Hallowel Ps The
Dining Table signify A. danger B.
calmness C. pity.
207. This question is based on General Literary
Principles. An example of a narrative poem
is A. elegy B. epic C. dirge D. sonnet.
208. This question is based on General Literary
Principles. A literary device wherein the
author places a person, concept, idea or
theme parallel to another is A. allusion B.
juxtaposition C. symbolism D. memoir.
209. This question is based on General Literary
Principles. A prose work which centres on
moral growth and character formation of an
individual is called A. psychological novel
B. picaresque C. autobiography D.
satirical novel.
210. This question is based on General Literary
Principles, Myths differ from legend in that
myths A. have more of the historical
background and less of the supernatural B.
are less concerned with moral didacticism
C. are more Concerned with moral
didacticism D. have less of historical
background and more of the
supernatural.
211. This question is based on General Literary
Principles. A character that develops as a
story develops in a novel is A. fiat B. foil
C. round D. eponymous
212. The setting of the play is A. Gbossa B.
Benue C. Nassarawa D. Jabu.
213. This question is based on Frank Ogodo
Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption. From
its resolution of conflicts, the play can be
described as being A. obscene B. farcical
C. comic D. Didactic
214. This question Is based on Frank Ogodo
Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption. Aloho
is employed as Chiefs A. Personal
Assistant B. Protocol Officer C.
Legal Adviser D. Secretary.
215. This question is based on Frank Ogodo
Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption. 'I
thought as much, I know that all these hide-
and-seek games that have both going on
will one day come to light'. The speaker of
the excerpt above is A Ogeyi B.Alice
C.AyoD. Mrs Obi
216. This question is based on William
Shakespeare's Othello. The handkerchief
that Othello inherits from his mother is
made by A. a female prophet B.
Desdemona's maid C. Othello's mother D.
Othello's lover.
217. This question is based on William
Shakespeare's Othello, The first character
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in the play to refer to Othello by name is A.
Brabantio B. Desdemona C. the Duke D
lago.
218. This question is based on William
Shakespeare's Othello. The hypocritical
character in the play isA. Montano B. lago
C. Cassio D. Roderigo
219. Othello kills himself with a bottle B.
sword C. gun D. knife.
220. This question is based on William
Shakespeare's Othello. No faith shelet it
drop by negligence. And, to the advantage,
I being here, took it up. Look, here it is.
This speaker of the lines above is A. lago
B. Cassio C. Desdemona D. Emilia
221. This question is based on Am ma Darko's
faceless. Ordaley ignored the two young
women plating their hair because she didn't
want to generate another war with a simple
greeting'
222. The image depicted in the lines above is A.
ironic B. personification C. hyperbolic
D. metaphoric
223. This question is based on Amma Darko's
Faceless. After impregnating MaaTsuru,
Kwei's family treats him like a A. renegade
B. leper C. foreigner D. desperad
224. This question is based on Amma Darko's
Faceless. Kabria's second child is A Ottu
B Adade C. Essie D. Obea This
question is based on Bayo Adebowale's
Lonely Days. Yaremi's main job is taffeta
A. mending B. making C. weaving D.
dyeing
225. This question is based on Bayo
Adebowale's Lonely Days..
226. In Kufi. the death of a husband is treated
with A. indifference B. suspicion C.
elation D. anger This question is based on
Bayo Adebowale's Lonely bays.
227. Kufi is a .....A. Christian community B.
pagan society C. Muslim community D.
traditional society
228. This question is based on Richard
Wright's Native Son. One of the pictures
Bigger sees on the pamphlet given to him
by Jan is that of a A. knife and a sword B.
knife and a gun C. hammer and a sickle
D. matchet and a hammer
229. This question is based on Richard Wright's
Native Son. The family that donates to
charity is A. the Thomas' B. Buckleys C.
the Daltons D. The Erlones
230. This question is based on Richard image in the lines above in Morris' The
Wright's Native Son, You want to know Proud King is A. auditory B. gustatory- C.
something then you run like a rabbit' The tactile D. visual. But such a tide as moving
device used in the line above is A. pun seems a sleep. Too full for sound and foam.
B. personification C. metaphor D. simile When that which drew from out the
231. This question is based on Richard boundless deep Turns again home.
Wright's Native Son. According to, the 238. The rhyme scheme from Tennyson's
novel, Southerners deprive the Negroes of Crossing the 'Bar' is A.abac B. abba C.
A. being more educated B. abab D.abcb
accommodation C. good job D. their 239. One of the theme's of Awoonor's The Anvil
rights to vote and the Hammer is A. education B.
232. This question is based on Selected Poems slavery C. colonisation D. corruption
from Johnson, R.et al(eds.): New Poetry 240. And my blood ripples, turns torrent.'
from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; The line above in Okara's Piano and Drums
Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed.): A depicts the persona as A. smart B. sick C.
Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: weak D. strong
Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The 241. According to Peter's The Panic of Growing
Penguin Book of English Verse and Older, a twenty a man is A. poor B.
Nwoga, D,(ed.): West African Verse. religious C. hopefull D. frustrated
233. The title of Herbert's The Pulley is an 242. The dominant literary device in Diop's
example of A. fable B. eupbemism Vanity is A. rhetorical question B.
C. allegory D. symbolism allusion C. hyperbole D. dramatic irony
234. The question is based on Selected Poems 243. Hallowell's The Dining Table can be
from Johnson, R, et al (eds).New Poetry referred to as a A. traditional poem B. a
from African (ed.): Poems of Black lyric C. dramatic monologue D. ballad
Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. 228. The totality of a writer‟s compositions is
(ed.): A Selection of African Poetry; called (a)ana(b)annals(c)palilogy(d)oeuvre
Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward,
J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English
Verse and Wwoga, D.(ed.): West African
Verse
235. The tone of the persona in Blake's The
School Boy is that of A. fear B.
fulfillment C. contempt D. neutrality
This question is based on Selected Poems
from Johnson, R.et al (eds.): New Poetry
from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa;
Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (ed.); A
Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G:
Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed.)
236. 'awaiting in ambush‟ Ambush in the line
above from Adeoti's Ambush symbolizes A.
exploit B. frustration C. danger D.
pain
This question is based on Selected Poems
from Johnson, R.et al (eds.): New Poetry
from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa;
Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed.): A
Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G:
Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The
Penguin Book of English Verse and
Nwoga, D.(ed.): West African Verse,
237. 'And by her stood that image of the king in
rich apparel, crown and signet-ring' The
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