The Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS) is now confronted with a new security threat which is

• A. extremism
• B. smuggling of illegal goods across states
• C. weak national armies
• D. proportional representation

Amos declared that the Jews who built houses of hewn stone would not dwell in them because they

• A. swore falsely
• B. persecuted the prophets
• C. trampled upon the poor
• D. worshipped other gods

The following text is adapted from Zora Neale Hurston’s 1921 short story “John Redding Goes to Sea.” John is a child who lives in a town in the woods. Perhaps ten-year-old John was puzzling to the folk there in the Florida woods for he was an imaginative child and fond of day-dreams. The St. John River flowed a scarce three hundred feet from his back door. On its banks at this point grow numerous palms, luxuriant magnolias and bay trees. On the bosom of the stream float millions of delicately colored hyacinths.[John Redding] loved to wander down to the water’s edge, and, casting in dry twigs, watch them sail away down stream to Jacksonville, the sea, the wide world and [he] wanted to follow them. Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?

• A) It provides an extended description of a location that John likes to visit.
• B) It reveals that some residents of John
• C) It illustrates the uniqueness of John
• D) It suggests that John longs to experience a larger life outside the Florida woods.

If in the English alphabet, A = 1, B = 2, C = 3…… and Z = 26, what will be the difference sum of the consonants and that of the vowels?

• A. 351
• B. 300
• C. 249
• D. 200

When sodium is added to ethanol, the products are?

• A. sodium hydroxide and water
• B. sodium hydroxide and hydrogen
• C. sodium ethoxide and water
• D. sodium ethoxide and hydrogen

''My bounty is as boundless as the sea

My love as deep'' The above lines illustrate

• A. epigram
• B. hyperbole
• C. apostrophe
• D. parody

What was the sin of Manasseh for which God punished Judah under king Jehoiakim?

• A. Murder
• B. Theft
• C. Injustice
• D. Adultery

It is necessary to circumcise them, and to charge them to keep the law of Moses.

In response to the above Pharisee's above statement, Peter rebuked them by saying that God has

• A. cleansed the Gentile's heart by faith
• B. put the yoke upon the Gentile's necks
• C. made circumcision for only those in leadership
• D. chosen the Israelites among other people

The course of discrepancies between the bank statement and the cash book that overstates the cash book is the?

• A. dividend received
• B. uncredited expenses
• C. uncredited cheques
• D. interest on lodgement

Read the extract and answer the question

Oh, a Cherubin

Thou wast that did preserve me. Thou didst smile,

Infused with a fortitude from heaven,

When I have decked the sea with drops full salt.

Under my burthen groaned; which raised in me

An undergoing stomach, to bear up

Against what should ensue

(Act 1 scene two lines 154-161)

The character addressed is

• A. Ferdinand
• B. Ariel
• C. Caliban
• D. Miranda