At what stage in the buying-decision process does a consumer collect information about a product?

• A. Need recognition stage
• B. Alternative search stage
• C. Post-purchase decision
• D. Purchase decision

A firm faces diminishing returns when its?

• A. total output diminishes
• B. average output diminishes
• C. marginal output diminishes
• D. marginal revenue diminishes

Opening the stock plug plus purchase of less closing the stock gives?

• A. the rate of turnover
• B. cost of goods sold
• C. working capital
• D. net profit

Read the extract and answer the question

If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,

Speak to me;

That may be any good thing to be grace to me,

Speak to me;

If thou art privy to thy country's fate,

Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid,

O, speak!

Or if thou has uphoarded in thy life

Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,

For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death

Speak of it:

(Act 1 scene one, lines 129-139)

The speaker's mood is one of

• A. anger
• B. regret
• C. anxiety
• D. disappointment

From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.

The defendant was charged with ................ because he caused his neighbour's death.

• A. homicide
• B. fatricide
• C. patricide
• D. genocide

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

David Rubadiri's 'Stanley meets Mutesa' symbolically describes the meeting betwee

• A. a black king and a white man
• B. Stanley and Mutesa
• C. the West and Africa
• D. Europe and a black king

Choose the most appropriate optionnearest in meaning to the underlined word(s).

Surely, Ahmed is aball of fire?

• A. quarrelsome person
• B. a hot-headed activist
• C. a fiery speaker or writer
• D. a very energetic person

During a 2014 archaeological dig in Spain, Vicente Lull and his team uncovered the skeleton of a woman from El Algar, an Early Bronze Age society, buried with valuable objects signaling a high position of power. This finding may persuade researchers who have argued that Bronze Age societies were ruled by men to ______ that women may have also held leadership roles. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

• A) waive
• B) concede
• C) refute
• D) require

Black pod disease of cocoa is controlled by

• A. fumigation of soil
• B. farm sanitation
• C. application of herbicides
• D. application of fungicide

What is the size of angle x in the diagram

• A. 15°
• B. 30°
• C. 45°
• D. 60°