The word which when applied describes the posture of the speaker in The Fence is

• A. action
• B. inertia
• C. nostalgia
• D. cowardice

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Read the extract and answer the following question.

As wagish boys in a game themselves forswear;

So the boy Love is perjured everywhere;

For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia's eyne,

He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;

And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,

So he dissolved and showers of oaths did melt

• A. being rejected by the lover
• B. having to go into the forest
• C. wanting to punish Hermia
• D. meeting with Hermia

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

In which of the following genres is the term 'soliloquy' generally used?

• A. Novel
• B. Drama
• C. Epic
• D. Poetry

Read the extract and answer the question

My heart leaps up when I behold

A rainbow in the sky:

So was it when my life began,

So is it now that I am a man,

So be it when I shall grow

The child is father of the man

The literary device used in line 1 is

• A. simile
• B. alliteration
• C. litotes
• D. personification

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.

Ona has to leave her father's house because

• A. of her love for Agbadi
• B. that is the tradition
• C. her father is dead
• D. of the safety of her child

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles. The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of

In Houseman's To an Athlete Dying Young, the persona addresses the dead athlete using

• A. Monologue
• B. Dialogue
• C. Apostrophe
• D. Prologue

Read the extrat and answer the question

Prospero:Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated

In what thou hadst to say. So, with good life

And observation strange, my meaner ministers

Their several kinds have done. My high charms work,

And these,mine enemies are all knit up

In their distractions. They now are in my power;

And in these fits I leave them,....

(Act 111, scene three lines 85-91)

The first line means that the addressee

• A. obeyed Prospero's instructions exactly
• B. did not carry out Prospero's instructions
• C. modified the instruction of Prospero
• D. failed to understand the instructions of Prospero

This question is based on CAGED BIRD.

Read this excerpt from the poem and answer questions .

"The free bird thinks of another

breeze / and the trade winds

soft through the sighing trees"

What is the effect of the trees sighing in this verse?

• A. It shows where the bird sleeps
• B. It shows the tree is sleeping
• C. It indicates that the bird is carefree
• D. It indicates that it is still early in the day

Read the extract and answer the question

If I speak true! if hollowly, invert

What best is boded me to mischief! I,

Beyond all limit of what else i' the world,

Do love, prize, honour you.

(Act 111, scene one line 70-73)

The speaker is

• A. Prospero
• B. Ferdinand
• C. Miranda
• D. Gonzalo

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

'Idoto' in Okigbo's 'The Passage' is the name of

• A. the poet's mother
• B. the poet's village
• C. a village shrine
• D. a village stream