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.

Who are they that 'live that the earth may die'in Nyi Osundare's ''They Too Are The Earth''?

• A. the beggars sprawled in gutters
• B. The millions who hew wood
• C. People who fritter the forest and harry the hills
• D. Those who hurl water

Read the poem and answer the question

At dawn must I rise to till the rock

That our land has turned into

The land where on we'd gleefully harvested paddy

Planted and nurtured and tended on plots marshy

Our woes are bloody woes of accursed revenges

Of the land spirits aggrieved and by his fellow

Kindred blood has counted for less than no value

Brother's wife has been wife to other brother's brother

Communal loot has emptied our country silos

The earth has stooped breathing and sighed

Soldered tears has the moon shed

The earth was scorched at noon-day night

And our land has turned to hoeing rock.

''The earth has stopped breathing and sighed'' illustrates

• A. bathos
• B. climax
• C. personification
• D. paradox

George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four.

The novel is mainly classified as a

• A. metaphor
• B. hyperbole
• C. satire
• D. fiction

Read the extract and answer the uestion

Ariel: All hail, great master! Grave sir, hali ! I come

To answer the best pleasure; be't to fly,

To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride

On the curled clouds, to thy strong bidding task

Ariel and all his quality.

(Act I Scene Two, lines 189 - 193)

Prospero has actually

• A. raised a storm at sea
• B. punished Miranda
• C. dismissed Ferdinand
• D. commanded Ariel to disappear

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the passage below and answer the question

Tell me not (sweet) I am unkinde,

That from theNunnerie

of thy chaste breast and quiet minde,

To warre and Armes I flie.

True, a new Mistresse now I chase,

The first Foe in the field;

And with a stronger faith imbrace,

A Sword, a Horse, a Shield.

Yet thisInconstancy is such,

As you too shall adore;

I could not love thee (Deare) so much,

Lov'd I not Honour more.

The rhyme pattern of the poem is

• A. abab
• B. aabb
• C. abcd
• D. abba

NON-AFRICAN DRAMA

OSCAR WILDE: The Importance of Being Earnest

How important is Miss Prism in the play?

This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

The language of the play is

• A. ambiguous
• B. condemnatory
• C. apolitical
• D. metaphoric

This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.

'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ......

The speaker above is referring to

• A. Hannah and George
• B. Aaron and Maanan
• C. Lawyer B and Mrs. B
• D. Fosuwa and Maidservant

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

In John Keats''Ode to a Nightingale, 'light-winged Dryad of the trees' refers to a

• A. butterfly
• B. bird
• C. bee
• D. wood nymph

This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man . Petkoff [grinning] 'Sergius: tell Catherine that queer story his friend told us about how he escaped after Slivnitza. You remember.

About his being hid by two women' Since the phrase 'two women in the above extract refers to Petkoff's own daughter and wife, his grinning is a case of

• A. sarcasm
• B. ridicule
• C. irony
• D. suspense