This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

To raise the reader's anxiety about the story, the author sometimes

• A. stops the main story to narrate other events
• B. creates a lot of funny episodes
• C. puts too many difficulties in Adans way
• D. shows that Francis is weaks

Ginning is a method of processing

• A. cocoa
• B. cotton
• C. oil palm
• D. palm kernel oil

A box contains 4 red and 3 blue identical balls. If two are picked at random, one after the other without replacement, find the probability that one is red and the other is blue.

• A. \(\frac{4}{7}\)
• B. \(\frac{2}{7}\)
• C. \(\frac{1}{7}\)
• D. \(\frac{1}{12}\)

How many moles of limestone will be required to produce 5.6g of CaO? [Ca = 40, C = 12, 0 = 16]

• A) 0.20 mol
• B) 0.10 mol
• C) 1.12 mol
• D) 0.56 mol

(a) In a game, a fair die is rolled once and two unbiased coins are tossed at once. What is the probability of obtaining 3 and a tail?

(b) A box contains 10 marbles, 7 of which are black and 3 are red. Two marbles are drawn one after the other without replacement. Find the probability of getting:

(i) a red, then a black marble ; (ii) two black marbles.

...Lying down in the melting snow.

There were times we regretted

The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,

And the silken girls bringing sherbert.

The emotion evoked in this passage from Journey of the Magi is that of

• A. romance
• B. nostalgia
• C. sorrow
• D. fear

How did King Solomon demonstrate his wisdom in setting the dispute over the ownership of a baby a the two prostitutes?

• A. He interrogated them for seven days until the truth was discovered
• B. He interrogated them for only three days the truth was revealed
• C. He asked them to divide the child into two and the mother was known
• D. He threatened to give the child to a neutral woman and the mother was know

Choose the option nearest in meaning to the word underlined. Because Jamium is soeasily offended, he was not considered for the post of head boy?

• A. irritable
• B. stubborn
• C. troublesome
• D. docile

An equilateral triangle has a side 2 cm. Calculate the height of the triangle.

• A. 5cm
• B. \(\sqrt5\)cm
• C. 3cm
• D. \(\sqrt{ 3}\)cm

This question is based on the Literary Appreciation.

'I am jealous and passionate like Jehovah, God of the Jews;

J.P Clark: Olokun

A device used in the second line of the excerpt above is

• A. simile
• B. hyperbole
• C. metaphor
• D. paradox