These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal.

'As he opened and shut his mouth his lower jaw went down and came up,puffing up and then deflating the skin under his chin'.

The subject of description in the line above is

• A. the high commissioner
• B. the white chief
• C. M.Fuuconi
• D. M. Pipiniakis

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): 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

The theme of Wangusa's A Taxi Driver on His Death is

• A. the taxi driver's contemplation of the vehicle as the likely cause of his death
• B. that a driver's death must surely be caused by his vehicle
• C. the danger in the driving profession
• D. that roads are death-traps for drivers

Read the extract below and answer the question

A : I could marry this wenchfor this device

B : So could I too.

A : And ask no other dowry with her but such another jest.

B : Nor I neither.

C : Here comes my noble gull-catcher.

A : Wilt thou set thy foot o my neck?

B : Or o' mine either?

A : Shall I play my freedom at tray: and become thy bondslave?

B : I faith, or I either?

(Act 2 Sc V)

The conversation reveals that Speaker B is

• A. very confident
• B. very shy
• C. easily persuaded
• D. easily confused

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

The recurrent nightmares in Ojaide's 'The Owl Wakes Us' suggest

• A. a dreamful existence
• B. anxieties destroying peaceful sleep
• C. repression in governance
• D. broken promises

The first person narrator is usually

• A. the protagonist
• B. a villain in the novel
• C. the antagonist
• D. a character in the novel

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

'An unlucky creation His mother, a street walker;His lying father,A champion at producing bastards.'

B.S.: Tibenderana; The Bastard

The subject of the poem above is

• A. a prostitute
• B. the lying father
• C. the son
• D. the orphan

''All hands on deck'' is an example of

• A. personification
• B. metonymy
• C. metaphor
• D. synecdoche

O'deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!

Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind

Prince, taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law,

And turned that black word death to banishment.

Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the speaker in the passage above is

• A. Apothecary
• B. Lord Capulet
• C. Lord Montague
• D. Friar Lawrence

Read the extract below and answer the question

A : I could marry this wenchfor this device

B : So could I too.

A : And ask no other dowry with her but such another jest.

B : Nor I neither.

C : Here comes my noble gull-catcher.

A : Wilt thou set thy foot o my neck?

B : Or o' mine either?

A : Shall I play my freedom at tray: and become thy bondslave?

B : I faith, or I either?

(Act 2 Sc V)

Speaker A is

• A. Anotonio
• B. The Duke
• C. Sir Toby
• D. Fabian

Who succeeded Othello as Governor of Cyprus?

• A. Cassio
• B. Iago
• C. Montano
• D. Gratiano