This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

David Rubadiri's 'Stanley meets Mutesa' symbolically describes the meeting betwee

• A. a black king and a white man
• B. Stanley and Mutesa
• C. the West and Africa
• D. Europe and a black king

A device in drama where a character speaks alone is

• A. soliloquy
• B. aside
• C. apostrophe
• D. dialogue

Read the extract below and answer question

X: I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again;

Mine ear is much enamoured of thy note;

So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;

And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me

On the first view, to say, to swear, I love thee.

Y: Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that: ...

(Act llI, Scene One, Lines 116-121)

Speaker X is

• A. Titania
• B. Hippolyta
• C. snout
• D. Oberon

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

The stanza from of Mapanje's When this Carnival Finally Closes is

• A. a sonnet
• B. an irregular verse
• C. an address
• D. a free verse

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

What causes the strained relationship between James and Lawyer B?

• A. Betrayal of trust
• B. Standard of education
• C. Working experience
• D. Family differences

Poison ivy came up like a rose

in red and thorny garb

I look, liked and did dare touch

my pals my avid touch espied

with green and frosty eyes

I should've only looked, and not leapt,

For away and over my rising moon she flew

On clipped wings of my dream

Now a song-filled air pocket of serenades

A love's wretch, my dream is a hornbill

Flightless and tottering.

My dream remains a dream still

Now my dream is a locked-up serenade

The mood of the persona is one of___________

• A. Contempt
• B. Hilarity
• C. Despondency
• D. Hopefulness

This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

__________decides that Juliet should marry a young man named Paris, who has been asking for her hand

• A. Friar Laurence
• B. Lord Capulet
• C. Balthasar
• D. Friar John

AFRICAN POETRY

How does Rubadiri present the destructive force of the thunderstorm in "African Thunderstorm?"

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.

Will no one tell me what she sings

perhaps the plaintive numbers flow

for old, unhappy, far off things

And battles long ago.

Or is it some more humble lay,

Familiar matter of today?

The lines above shows that the persona

• A. so hates the words of the girl
• B. understands the girl's songs
• C. does not understand the girl's language
• D. is so much in love with the girl

This question is based on Literary Appreciation

'I am alone

And the murmur of my lips

Carry song and tears homewards

From a plain away from home

Okogbule Wonodi: Lament for Shola

The poet-persona here expresses a feeling of

• A. elation
• B. anger
• C. nostaglgia
• D. sorrow