SECTION E - African Prose

BAYO ADEBOWALE: Lonely Days

How do the men of Kufi behave towards their women?

Read the following lines to answer this question

The livid waters roared and snarled and flapped

At the poor battered and weeping yacht.

The picture presented is one of

• A. quiet sea
• B. dark sky
• C. stormy weather
• D. calm season

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the passage below and answer the following questions:

Along marched the crowd, determined not to be distracted from its cause and the course it had charted. If anyone could intimidate the chief, it was Sasu, who led the crowd. The chief nurtured unruffled restraint. He knew Sasu, knew that Sasu would not waste the trust between them on renegades.

One way to divert a mob from its goal is to join in with it, lead it on, but, finally, veer it from the course of its cause. Onward, towards the chief's palace marched the crowd, singing war songs.

The sun frowned as the palace guards, rattling like leaves in a storm - fear branded on their faces, came out to survey the threatening crowd and prepare for a siege. Just then, Sasu turned about, heading away from the palace - with the crowd, and the war songs.

• A. allusion
• B. simile
• C. parallelism
• D. personification

The story of a person's life written by another is

• A. history
• B. autobiography
• C. biography
• D. anthology

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The speech made by a character to himself on stage is

• A. aside
• B. soliloquy
• C. monologue
• D. epilogue

Read the poem below and answer the question

Thou art the judge of man

Judging his plans and behaviour

Judging his speech and egotism

You are the patient Judge

Nations plan without having thee in view

They boast of their will

But soon you show them their follies

You are the patient Judge

Tomorrow and Tomorrow, go here and there

Time smiles and laughs

He frowns his face and consults with fate

You are the patient Judge

The poetic device used in the first line is

• A. apostrophe
• B. personification
• C. euphemism
• D. litotes

This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal

In the novel, Africanness is achieved in both

• A. setting and characterization
• B. narration and style
• C. diction and syntax
• D. pun and style

This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

The author makes the reader believe his story by using

• A. a confessional style
• B. elements of humour
• C. detailed description
• D. another narrator

Read the poem and answer the question

In front of the gate, the guard stands with his rifle,

Above, untidy clouds are carrying away the moon,

The bedbugs are swarming around like army tanks on manoeuvers

While the mosquitoes form squadrons, attacking like fighter planes.

My heart travels a thousand miles towards my native land.

My dream interwines with sadness like a stein of a thousand threads,

Innocent, I have endured a whole year in prison

Using my tears for ink, I turn my thoughts into verses.

The imagery in the first four lines is predominantly

• A. agricultural
• B. military
• C. political
• D. social

The moon looked on the massacre in horror ! illustrates

• A. pathetic fallacy
• B. prologue
• C. epilogue
• D. transferred epithet