Read the poem below and answer the following questions

Your lies are the withering strokes still, they come from the inner recesses of your dungeoned heart. And though venomous than the venom, they inspire our once dociled minds to disorders even as your angels of death pass us by with messages of hopeless hope.

Did you read our mind in your lies? We know the seat of power in a castle of your evil heart; where your lies are imprisoned to be released again and again; they are never in rain! but they have soothed us calmly , your lies; the war is not of you anymore, it is of the angels who pass us by with messages of peace.

The main theme of the poem is

• A. evil of lying
• B. hopeless hope
• C. message of peace
• D. message of war

Pick the odd item from the list below

• A. tragedy
• B. comedy
• C. epilogue
• D. tragi-comedy

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.

In Robert Frost's 'Wild Grapes', the girl's brother throws down grapes in the manner he does to

• A. make his sister have her fill
• B. allow himself time-in-between to eat
• C. make his sister desire to climb the tree
• D. allow hinself to have some fun

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest

Read the extract and answer the question

P : Mark his condition, and the answer questions

If this might be a brother.

Q: I should sun

To think but nobly of my grandmother:

Good wombs have borne bad sons.

(Act 1, scene two lines 116-120)

Speaker Q is

• A. Miranda
• B. Prospero
• C. Sebastian
• D. Caliban

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. high spirits
• B. disappointed
• C. excited
• D. in a bad mood

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

One of the main features that sustains the reader's interest in the novel is the

• A. creation and resolution of conflicts
• B. sale of Henchard's wife
• C. exploration of comic plot
• D. wheat business in Casterbridge

African Prose

BAY° ADEMOWALE: Lonely Days

Comment on the writer's narrative style in the Novel.

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

In On His Blindness, Milton uses the experience of his blind state to

• A. condemn himself
• B. appreciate God
• C. abuse God
• D. disregard his fellow men

This question is based on Literary Principles.

''Virture in Russia as in his childhood, seemed something that arose from men, like a comforting body odour, rather than something from above that impaled the struggling soul like a moth on a pin.'' John Updike, Beech: A Book

The tone of the passage above is

• A. authoritative
• B. mocking
• C. appreciative
• D. scathing

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the extract below and answer the question

His mind flitted back memory lane. He remembered how time walked quietly in. like a thief in the night and then put a sword in the heart of the land. He remembered all his life's sweat. drained away by the strife.He remembered his wife and two lovely kids, all slain pitilessly by the beasts in khaki. He remembered his only sister, a tender rose, defiled in turns by them and then slaughtered like a lamb upon the ritual table.

''....a tender rose'' is an example of a/an

• A. personification
• B. imagery
• C. symbolism
• D. metaphor