This question is based on Literary Principles.

'El - Hadji Abdou Kader Beye was received in princely style at the girl's home. The food was exquisite and the scent of incense filled N'Gone's small wooden room. Nothing was omitted in the careful process of conditioning the man.'

Sembane Ousmane, 'Xala'

The writer suggests in the passage above that El-Hadji is

• A. a prince
• B. a food lover
• C. being entertained
• D. being manipulated

Pick the odd item

• A. elergy
• B. ballad
• C. metaphor
• D. ode

The exclusive right given to authors to protect their works from unlawful production is

• A. a constitutional provision
• B. a copyright
• C. an authority to write
• D. an author's right

AFRICAN DRAMA

KOBINA SEKYI: The Blinkards.

To what extent is Mrs. Borofosem a blind imitator of the English ways of life?

A poem which celebrates simple country life is___________

• A. A dirge
• B. An ode
• C. An epic C. An epic
• D. A pastoral

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

I have received your letter. By way of a reply, I am beginning this diary, my prop is my distress. Our long association has taught me that confiding in others allays pain.

Mariama Ba, 'So Long a Letter'

By employing the first person narrator, the author of the passage above achieves

• A. sympathy
• B. confidentiality
• C. authenticity
• D. irony

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the passage and answer the question

Here in the station, it is in no way different save that the city is busy in its snow. But the old men cling to their seats as though they were symbolic and could not be given up. Now and then they sleep, their grey old heads resting with painful awkwardnesson the backs of the benches. Also, they are not at rest. For an hour, they may sleep in thegasping exhaustion of the ill-nourished and aged, who have to walk in the night. Then, a policeman comes by on his round and nudges them upright. ''You can't sleep here'', he growls. A strange ritual then begins. An old man is difficult to wake. One man after a slight lurch does not move at all, he sleeps on steadily. Once in a while, one of the sleepers will not wake; he will have had his wish to die in the greatdroning centre of thehive rather than in some loney room fulfilled.

''.....gasping exhaustion of the ill-nourished and aged'' infers

• A. helplessness
• B. slowness
• C. sadness
• D. tiredness

This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

What are the main motives of the British in the Beinin Kingdom?

• A. Domination of the kingdom and its trade
• B. Mediation in Benin's domestic problems
• C. Elimination of Oba Ovonramwen
• D. Installation of a puppet regime in Benin Kingdom

This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

The frequent intervention of the Director makes the stage experience of Morountodun very

• A. prolonged
• B. boring
• C. informal
• D. uncoordinated

This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

'Not much. tell Queen Victoria that at last the big pot of corn been toppled; now mother hen and her children may rejoice!'

The phrase 'mother hen and her children' in the passage above refers to

• A. Princess Evbakhavbokun and herchildren
• B. Glogbosere and the other Benin chiefs
• C. Captain Carter and the British soldiers
• D. Queen Victoria and the British official