Literature Past Questions And Answers
This question is based on J.C.De Graft's Sons and Daughters.
The play opens with a conversation between Aaron and Awere about
- A. Aaron's choice of course
- B. Maanan's encounter with the lawyer
- C. George qnd Kofi
- D. Hannah and George
These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; 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 Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The movement in Adeoti's Naked Soles is characterized by
- A. hope and agreement
- B. freedom and self-determination
- C. pricks and tears
- D. dissapointed and disarray
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.
'...these white lilies tossed their little heads then
In the moon-steeped ponds;
There was bouncing gaiety in the crisp chirping
Of the cricket in the undergrowth,...
These lines from Kwesi Brew's 'The Executioner's
Dream suggest that
- A. even nature rejoices at human sacrifice
- B. nature is indifferent to man's predicament
- C. there is harmony in nature
- D. there is a lot of activity in the undergrowth
This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four.
The novel draws a picture of
- A. a useless past
- B. a totalitarian future
- C. an unstable moment
- D. a peaceful atmosphere
SECTION F: NON-AFRICAN PROSE
HORACE WALPOLE: The Castle of Otranto
Examine the role of Theodore in the novel.
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Read the extract below and answer the question
If I can catch him once upon the hip,
I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
He hates our sacred nation, and he rails,
Even there where merchants most do congregate,
On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift,
Which he calls interest;......
(Act 1 Scene Three, lines 39-)
''my well-won thrift'' is
- A. sarcasm
- B. a parody
- C. an understatement
- D. an allegory
Group of lines are called _____
- A. Sentences
- B. Stanzas
- C. Danzas
- D. Line Grouping
Read the extract and answer the question
I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot,
Even with the very comment of thy soul
Observe mine uncle: if his occulted guilt
Do not itself unkennel in one speech,
It is a dammed ghost that we have seen.....
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 73-77)
The speaker is
- A. Hamlet
- B. Claudius
- C. the King
- D. the Queen
In literary devices, pun deals with
- A. placing words side by side
- B. playing on words
- C. arrangement of words placing two opposite phrases Answer
- D. placing two opposite phrases
Which of the following is a likely source of traditional oral poetry?
- A. Theatre
- B. fiction
- C. books
- D. songs