Which of the following is written by an African playwright?

• A. She Stoops to Conquer
• B. A Raisin in the Sun
• C. Lonely Days
• D. The Blood of a stranger

Based on Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu, Erelu is

• A. the first wife of the Oba
• B. the oldest wife of the Oba Akinjobi
• C. a courtier to the Alaafin of Oyo
• D. the most brilliant woman in Owu

Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet,

The play shares the feature of classical tragedy through the use of

• A. violence on stage
• B. chorus
• C. comic relief
• D. flashback

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.

'...Tide and market come and go

And so shall your mother.'

The above lines from J.P. Clark's 'Streamside Exchange' depict the

• A. variation of season
• B. changing periods of marketing
• C. constancy of nature
• D. importance of living

The question is based on Richard Wright’s Native Son

Weekly, Bigger is to be paid_________?

• A. Twenty Dollars
• B. Twenty Five Dollars
• C. Thirty Dollars
• D. Thirty Five Dollars

This question is based on Literary Principles.

'On the lower deck in the babel of two hundred voices he would forget himself, and beforehand live in his mind the sea life of light literature,.

Joseph Conrade Lord Jim

The character in the above passage is

• A. talking
• B. sleeping
• C. reading a literature book
• D. day-dreaming

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

'Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.

He knew this was one of the many ways the General meditated, but the ecstasy in which he lay drifting seemed that of a man no longer of this world.'

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The General in His Labyrinth.

The master in the passage above is obviously in a state of

• A. labyrinth
• B. drowning
• C. forgetfulness
• D. trance

AFRICAN POETRY

Examine the poet's use of images in "Songs of Sorrow I and II".

This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

'As soon as the fellows were departed, the lawyer, Who had, it seems, a case of pistols in the seat of the coach, informed the company, that if it had been daylight, and he could have submitted to the robbery; he likewise set forth that he had often met highwaymen when he travelled on horseback, but none ever durst attack him; concluding, that if he had not been more afraid for the lady than for himself, he

• A. brave man
• B. law-enforcement agent allowed to carry pistols
• C. coward
• D. gallant man who always protects ladies

This question is based on the Literary Appreciation.

'Your no-good pig, and here I am feeding him everyday letting him sleep in my house. I got a knife from the kitchen. I am going to kill that pig.'

Patricia Melo: The Killer

The speaker in the excerpt above is trying to

• A. brace himself up for the action
• B. report the pig before killing it
• C. contemplate the killing of the pig
• D. justify the action of killing the pig