Read the extract and answer the question

And for your part,..., I do wish

That your good beauties be the happy cause

Of ...wildness: so shall I hope your virtues

Will bring him to his wonted way again,

To both your honours,

(Act Three, Scene I, lines 37-42)

Another character present on the scene is

• A. Rosencrantz
• B. Guildenstern
• C. Polonius
• D. Hamlet

This question is based on Literary Principles.

'Poor bastard,

Dumped on the ground to make room

For his nocturnal fathers,

Or on the mat to spend his horrid nights

Among the steaming pots of food

And walking rats.'

''The Bastard'' by B.S. Tibenderana

The picture presented above is one of

• A. loneliness
• B. hunger
• C. desolation
• D. squalor

Section A: AFRICAN DRAMA

FRANK OGODO OGBECHE - Harvest of Corruption

How does Chief Haladu Ade-Amaka manipulate justice to his advantage?

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.

''droning'' and ''have'' illustrate

• A. anecdote
• B. epigram
• C. allusion
• D. epitaph

Pick the odd item from the options below

• A. Plot
• B. Theme
• C. Metre
• D. Subject

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.

In the play, Soyinka's sympathies lie with the

• A. exploited
• B. rich
• C. imprisoned
• D. accused

Read the extract below and answer the following questions

Speaker X: Thou runaway, thou coward,

art thou fled?

Speak! In some bush? Where dost thou hide thy head?

Speaker Y: Thou coward, art thou bragging to the stars,

Telling the bushes that thou look'st for wars,

And wilt not come? Come, recreant, come, thou child;

I'll whip thee with a rod. He is defiled

That draws a sword on thee.

(Act III, Scene Two, Lines 405 - 411)

The wars are over

• A. Helena
• B. Titania
• C. Hermia
• D. Hippolyta

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; 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-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.

In Acholonu's The Dissidents, the daughter of my father' is a

• A. heroine
• B. villain
• C. character
• D. narrator

A question which does not require an answer is

• A. discourse
• B. rhetorical
• C. ironic `
• D. flashback

Read the poem below and answer questions 26 to 30.

We wear the mask that grins and lies,

It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,

This debt we pay to human guile;

With torn and bleeding hearts we smile

And mouths with myriad subtleties,

Why should the world be over-wise,

In counting all our tears and sighs?

Nay, let them only see us, while

We wear the mask.

We smile but O great god, our cries

To thee from tortured souls arise

We sing, but oh the clay is vile

Beneath our feet and long the mile,

But let the world dream otherwise,

We wear the mask!

The poem is about

• A. debtors
• B. dreams
• C. costumes
• D. appearances