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Proud mothers of the coming age,

'Tis good to find you now engage

Your minds and time your lives to raise

Above the level of bygone days.

'Tis good to see you play your part

With spirit and undaunted heart,

It gives young Afric's throbbing soul

A glimpse of a bright and glorious goals.

God bless you, mothers of our race,

God cause to shine on you His face;

And give you strength and all you crave

To bring forth sons and daughters brave

The theme of the poem is

• A. the love of mother
• B. invoking the spirit of womanhood
• C. admiration for women's hard work
• D. the suffering of women

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

'But even he who sharpened the edge of hearts

Conceived new truths.

Telling us that truth is not truth of swords

But the long buds growing from the ruins.'

These lines suggest to us that Langula in Mazisi Kunene's To the Soldier Hero', was more interested in

• A. warfare
• B. life
• C. bloodshed
• D. conquest

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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.

The underlined means that

• A. they were living in a house with a high wall
• B. their building is no longer where it used to be
• C. the children had caused the wall to crumble
• D. their father made them pull down the wall

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Truth may bend but will never break:

It will ever rise above falsehood as oil above water.

The simile in the second line

• A. expresses the idea more vividly
• B. tells one that oil is heavier than water
• C. makes a comparison between oil and water
• D. expresses the idea in a complex manner

Read the extract below and answer the question

As much as I deserve: why, that's the lady

I do in birth deserve her, and in fortunes

In graces, and in qualities of breeding

But more than these, in love I do deserves

(Act 11, sc VII)

''The lady'' in the extract refers to

• A. Balthazar
• B. Nerissa
• C. Jessica
• D. Portia

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The term for the moral flaw or weakness that leads to the downfall of a major character in drama is

• A. chaos
• B. hamartia
• C. denouement
• D. reversal

Answer all the questions in this section

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest

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Silence ! One word more

Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. What!

An advocate for an impostor! Hush!

(Act 1,Scene Two, lines 478 - 480)

The Speaker is

• A. Gonzalo
• B. Antonio
• C. Prospero
• D. Alonso

Stream of consciousness is the name for

• A. a narrative mode that produces a character's random thoughts and associations
• B. an italian rhyme scheme brought into vogue in the sixteenth century
• C. a stage device in the actor addresses the audience directly
• D. a cultural phenomenon of the eighteenth century

Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Ariel is identified as

• A. assistant to Sycorax
• B. leader of the spirits
• C. Prospero's daughter
• D. Alonso's wife

Section A: AFRICAN DRAMA

FRANK OGODO OGBECHE - Harvest of Corruption

Why does Ogeyi dislike Ochuole?