The ultimate authority in a state is

• A. sovereignty
• B. power
• C. influence
• D. legitimacy

Read the extract below and answer the question

Alack, what heinous sin is it in me

To be ashamed to be my father's child!

But though I am a daughter to his blood

I am not to his manners.....

(Act 11 Scene Three lines 15 - 18)

The speaker has been addressing

• A. Solanio
• B. Portia
• C. Lancelot
• D. Nerissa

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.

...a huge senseless cathedral of doom'in Kofi Awoonor's The Cathedral implies

• A. meaningless foreign religious parctices
• B. meaningless indigenous religious practices
• C. the architectural beauty of the cathedral
• D. the Catholic Church pratcices

In the diagram, the height of a flagpole |TF| and the length of its shadow |FL| re in the ratio 6:8. Using k as a constant of proportionality, find the shortest distance between T and L

• A. 7K units
• B. 10K units
• C. 12K units
• D. 14k units

A tropical soil formed on wind drift material and usually featuring a late-rite layer is known as?

• A. latosol
• B. lithosol
• C. regosol
• D. podzol

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the passage below and answer the question

The killing of a whale at sea isn't pleasant to witness or even to contemplate. Hunted down through solar and other highly specialized equipment, the whale has no more chance of escape like a steer in a slaughterhouse. The manner of his death, however, is very different. A grenade-tipped harpoon explodes deep within his body, often causing prolonged suffering before the gentle-giant, whose intelligence may be second only to our own, is reduced to a carcass ready for processing into crayons, lipstick, shoe polish, fertilizer, margarine and pet food.

The inhumane manner of death, however, is the least part of the scandal known as the whaling industry. Much more important is the fact that the killing is quite unnecessary. Adeguate substitutes exist for every single use to which the whale carcasses are currently put, and although some 32,000 whales are killed every year, the sum of commodities are provide is insignificant in the world's economy.

''.....gentle giant'' conveys the picture of being

• A. ferocious
• B. tame
• C. timid
• D. brave

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the poem and answer the question

I wonder how long, you awful parasite

Shall share me this little bed,

And make me, from sweet dreams be lost

By sucking blood from my poor head.

I should but say man has much

Blood, which you and your families do feed

on; for supper, dinner, and lunch,

And besides, you do in my bed breed.

Clever thou art, tiny creature;

You attend me when I am deep asleep;

When thou art sure, I cant you capture,

Just as the time I snore deep.

''Tis so strange that before twilight,

The bed clear of you would seem;

For not one you is in my sight

As if your presence was in a dream.

The poem is generally made up of

• A. rhyming couplets
• B. heroic couplets
• C. end-stopped lines
• D. run-on lines

Which of the following organism has both plant and animal-like features

• A. Paramecium
• B. Euglena
• C. Amoeba
• D. Spirogyra

Ike's scale of preference reveals that he prefers bananas to pawpaw, pawpaw to oranges and oranges to bananas. Ike's preferences are therefore?

• A. inconsistent
• B. consistent
• C. transitive
• D. rational

Idle cash balances are held for

• A. planned purchases
• B. the purchase of bonds
• C. the purchase of shares
• D. unplanned purchases