DELE CHARLEY: The Blood of a Stranger

1. Compare Kindo and his father in the play.

2. Examine Wara's encounters with soko in the play.

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the poem and answer the question

What a morning!

The sound of guns was everywhere

The city was trapped,

I heave a mournful sigh- Rebels!

Boom Boom Boom!

The heart pants at the sound of the blast

Lord! When will all this end?

This is the fourth day.

You say you are free

Oh no, you are not

You are trapped-

A prisoner in your own home.

The song is everywhere.

What next?

Food - water - a hiding place

Far from the sound of the gun.

The second stanza refers to

• A. the uncertainty of life
• B. the pleasures of life
• C. the meaning of life
• D. the joys of life

Comic relief occurs in ________

• A. comedies
• B. pastorals
• C. romance
• D. tragedies

This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man .

'He did it like an operatic tenor. A regular handsome fellow, with flashing eyes and lovely moustache, shouting his war-cry and charging like Don Quixote at the windmills...'

This account of an important battle in the play carries a tone of

• A. admiration
• B. mockery
• C. bitterness
• D. alarm

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

As suggested in Agostinho Neto's 'Night', the problems the problem of the blackman today drive mostly from

• A. the persistance of a superstitious life style that creates only mystery and terror in an otherwise englightened world
• B. a fate that made his skin colour indentical to that of night
• C. the lack of a clear sense of direction coupled with years of oppression that weakened his will
• D. too much haste to catch up with the rest of the world as a result of which the basic structures of development are not being properly laid down

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

'...let the greying day grow

....let the evening horns blow

....let the melting mountains go

....but let the sundown sow''

To Wole with Love' by Atukwei Okai

The use of the words 'melting mountains' is

• A. metaphorical
• B. symbolical
• C. alliterative
• D. rhythmical

These questions are based on general Literary principles

A ballad is meant to be

• A. acted
• B. discussed
• C. read
• D. sung

Read the extract and answer the uestion

Ariel: All hail, great master! Grave sir, hali ! I come

To answer the best pleasure; be't to fly,

To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride

On the curled clouds, to thy strong bidding task

Ariel and all his quality.

(Act I Scene Two, lines 189 - 193)

Before Ariel's entry

• A. Ferdinand has brought in some wood
• B. Prospero had put Miranda to sleep
• C. Caliban had been sweaing at prospero
• D. Trinculo had discovered Caliban's cloak

This question is based on Literary Appreciation

'It was January and Monday my father had to gather his nerve to go back to teaching During the Christmas vacation he became slack and in a fury of screw-turning had to retighten himself. The long haul he called the stretch between Christmas and Easter.'

John Updike, The Centaur.

The long haul in the narrative above describes

• A. a long strike
• B. Christmas and Easter holidays
• C. a long period of hard work
• D. a long vacation

....Put up thy sword

Or manage it to part these men with me.

Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the speech above was made when

• A. Romeo and Paris engaged themselves in a fight
• B. Benvolio tries to separate the servants of the feuding families
• C. Tybalt challenges Romeo to duel
• D. Prince Escalus arrives to make peace between the families