This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

From the tragedy of Tess, it can be said that Thomas Hardy is concerned with the evils of

• A. modernization
• B. industrialization
• C. democratization
• D. colonization

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

Forget self! Forget status! let power die so that Benin may live!....

Iyase's entreaty comes when

• A. the Ifa priest makes his predicitions
• B. the whitemen attack Benin
• C. Ovonramwen is discovered in hiding
• D. Ovonramwen is asked to pay homage to the Whiteman

This question is based on General literacy principles

A literary work in which the characters and events are used as symbol is known as

• A. characterization
• B. allegory
• C. metaphor
• D. parallelism

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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.

Browning's 'My Last Duchess'is

• A. an epic
• B. a sonnet
• C. an elegy
• D. a lyric

Read the extract and answer the question:

I do I know not what, and fear to find

Mine eye to great a flatterer for my mind

Fate, show thy force; ourselves we do not owe,

'What is decreed must be, and be this so

(Act 1, Scene 5)

In lines 1 and 2, the speaker admits

• A. having very attractive eyes
• B. acting unreasonably
• C. falling in love
• D. not taking advantage of an opportunity

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

When Friar Lawrence asks if the bride is ready, he wants to know if

• A. Juliet is prepared
• B. Roseline is prepared
• C. the corpse is ready
• D. the birde is dressed

An elegy is a poem that usually expresses a state of

• A. euphoria
• B. confusion and chaos
• C. grandeur
• D. sorrow and grief

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

This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption.

From its resolution of conflicts. the play can be described as being

• A. obscene
• B. farcical
• C. comic
• D. didactic

The rigid nature of a constitution makes it

• A. accessible to all
• B. infallible and standard
• C. easy for quick review
• D. complicated for amendment