Past Questions And Answers
A boy standing some distance from the foot of a tall cliff claps his hands and hears an echo 0.5s later. If the speed of sound is 340m/s, how far is he from the cliff?
- A. 680m
- B. 170m
- C. 34m
- D. 85m
An object of mass 400g and density 600kgm-3 is suspended with a sting so that half of it is immersed in paraffin of density 900kgm-3. The tension in the string is
- A. 1.0N
- B. 3.0N
- C. 4.0N
- D. 5.0N
An aquifer can best be described as
- A. water bearing rock in between two impervious layers of rock
- B. a dammed surface water
- C. a well sunk below an impervious stratum of rock
- D. a beheaded river in a limestone region
The practice of bee farming is called
- A. Apiculture
- B. Heliculture
- C. Forestry
- D. Agronomy
This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
'...But there have been
No new reads cut by his servants
No new cots woven..'
It can be inferred from the above lines that
- A. there has been no harvest in the village
- B. the Bale's sevants are lazy
- C. no children have been born recently
- D. the Bale's servants are revolting
The short term solvency of a company is determined with ------- ratio
- A. acid test
- B. gross profit margin
- C. debt to equity
- D. current
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
'His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink,' Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
The dominant device in this extract is
- A. progressive repetition
- B. progressive amplification
- C. bold contrast
- D. rhyetorical emphasis
Tropical savanna vegetation is characterized by
- A. drought - resistant trees
- B. trees with broad leaves and fleshy bark
- C. palm trees and thorny scrub
- D. scattered every green trees
------------------------ is not a rainbow colour.
- (a) red
- (b)white
- (c)orange
- (d)yellow
In the Epistle to the Romans, justification is received through
- A. faith in Jesus
- B. moral uprightness
- C. observance of the law
- D. giving of alms