The question is based on William’s Shakespeare’s OTHELLO

ill-starred wench: Pale as thy smoke; When we shall meet at compt The device used in the line above is__________

• A. Simile
• B. Pun
• C. Metaphor
• D. Paradox

The performers in a play constitute the

• A. chorus
• B. characters
• C. audience
• D. cast

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

The marriage of Adah and Francis collapses because of

• A. Adah's unifaithfulness to Francis
• B. the influence of British culture
• C. Adah's desire for personal fulfilment
• D. external pressures on the couple

A struggle between opposing forces in a literary work is the

• A. plot
• B. conflict
• C. climax
• D. denouement

This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

The title, The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born implies that

• A. there could still be an upright man within an amoral society
• B. there is a possibility of moral regeneration
• C. the teacher is not involved in corruption
• D. any corrupt government will be overthrown

The long column of misery tended continually to grow longer, as the more robust struggled to get as far as possible from the pursuing French, and as the weaker fell farther and farther behind. There were enough weaklings in all conscience; even in summer the had been badly clothed, and even in victory insufficiently fed, and now it was winter, and Espinosa had been fought and lost, and the route of the retreat lay away from the fertile plains and up into the inhospitable mountains. The rain had fallen upon them in deluges for days and now as they climbed higher it was turning into sleet. and a bitter cold wind blew. Ahead of them they could see the snow lying thick on the mountain passes through which they would have to climb, without food or fuel or rest, and with the terror of the French to urge them on. Disease had come inevitably to complete the work so well begun by hunger, exposure, and the sword

A suitable title for the passage is the

• A. March of Soldiers
• B. Agony of War
• C. Pangs of Hunger
• D. Dread of Desease

FEMI OSOFISAN: Women of Owu

Discuss the significance of the meeting between Lawumi and Anlugbua.

This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.

The epilogue of the play deals with the impermanence of

• A. nature
• B. friendship
• C. womanhood
• D. love

Read the passage and answer Questions

On, on, on, over the countless miles of angry space roll the long heaving OT angry space roll the long heaving billows. Mountains and caves are here; for what is now the other; then all is but a boiling heap of rushing water. Pursuit, and flight and mad return of and savage struggle, ending up in a spouting up of foam that whitens the black night; incessant change of place and form and hue; constancy in nothing but eternal strife.

On, on, on, they roll and darker grows the night: and louder howls the wind and more clamorous and fierce become the million voices in the sea, when the wild cry goes forth upon the storm, A ship!

A ship in the last line symbolises _________

• A. despair.
• B. hope
• C. pirates
• D. sailors

This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; 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 - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.

Arthur Nortje's 'Nightfall' despicts

• A. the yearning for self-fulfilment in life
• B. the horrors of nightfall
• C. the yearning for love
• D. anxiety at nightfall