As chapter is to prose, so ...is to poetry

• A. couplet
• B. stanza
• C. line
• D. chorus

Explain the poet’s attitude to African traditional culture in “Vanity”.

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.

'Returning is not possible

And going forward is a great difficulty'

Sorrow' depict

• A. inevitability of fate
• B. collective failure
• C. progress with stubbornness
• D. individual tragedy

Read the poem and answer the question

Here stood our ancestral home

The crumbling wall marks the spot

Here a sheep was led to the slaughter

To appease the goods and atone

For fauilts which our destiny

Has blossomed into crimes

There my cursed father once stood

And shouted to us, his children

To come back from our play

To our evening meal and sleep.

''To appease the gods''...''implies

• A. seeking the favour of the gods
• B. offering meals to the gods
• C. accusing the gods for their misfortune
• D. reciting incantations to the gods

A metrical foot in which a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable is

• A. iambic
• B. spondaic
• C. trochaic
• D. dactylic

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 and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

'Red booth, Red pillar-box Red double-tiered Omnibus squelching tar. It was real!....'

These lines from Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation show that the poet

• A. appreciates the environment of his experience
• B. is insensitive to his experience
• C. is unable to believe his experience
• D. believes both his environment and experience

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.):New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds):A selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.); Longman Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles

According to Give Me The Minstrel's Seat, a woman is

• A. a necessary evil
• B. only fulfilled when married
• C. naturally jealous
• D. a harbinger of good luck

These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African poetry;Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam focus:Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds): Longman Examination Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.

Rubadiri's An African Thunderstorm, says that during thunderstorm in the village

• A. children play in the rain
• B. children are delighted while women move in and out
• C. both women and children are delighted
• D. women cook their food

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

Read the extract and answer the question

Do not forget: this visitation

Is but to what thy almost blunted purpose

But, look, amazement as thy mother sits:

O, step between her and her fighting soul:

(Act 111, scene four, lines 107 -110)

''fighting soul'' implies

• A. clear conscience
• B. hope
• C. fear
• D. guilty conscience

Read the extract below and answer the question:

......O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,

Me thoughtshe purged the air of pestilence;

That instant was, I turned into a hert,

And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,

E'er since pursue me.

(Act 1, Scene 1)

The lines mean that the speaker

• A. is being pursued by cruel hounds
• B. has been turn into a hart
• C. is a victim of his desires
• D. does not understand himself.