The question is based on William’s Shakespeare’s OTHELLO

Brabantio is opposed to the relationship between Othello and Desdemona because_________

• A. he prefers lago
• B. Othello is a moor
• C. Rodgerigo woos her first
• D. Desdemona is too young

Read the extrat and answer the question

Prospero:Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated

In what thou hadst to say. So, with good life

And observation strange, my meaner ministers

Their several kinds have done. My high charms work,

And these,mine enemies are all knit up

In their distractions. They now are in my power;

And in these fits I leave them,....

(Act 111, scene three lines 85-91)

Prosero decides to

• A. sit back and watch
• B. kick Caliban in the mouth
• C. go to Ferdinard
• D. Discharge Ariel

Read the poem and answer the question

I'm going soldering:

Mad the rhythm runs

With drumming and with trumpeting

And glory of the guns.

I've come home again:

I know that blood is red;

I know how sodden falls the rain

Where flesh lies dead.

• A. pathos
• B. oxymoron
• C. bathos
• D. inversion

The literary device in the statement - 'Students are to come to class with their Shakespeare' is called

• A. metonymy
• B. litotes
• C. synecdoche
• D. personification

Use the line to answer the questions.

'Our leaders will not compromise freedom

Nor will our heads give up liberty.'

A character that develops in the course of a novel or play is described as

• A. flat
• B. antagonist
• C. round
• D. protagonist

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.

In ''Hurrah For Thunder'', the poet uses the image of the jungle to comment on his country''s lack of

• A. civilization
• B. cleanliness
• C. order
• D. leadership

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The device used by writers to give truths by indirection is called

• A. irony
• B. paradox
• C. hyperbole
• D. satire

AFRICAN PROSE

ISIDORE OKPEWHO: The Last Duty

With reference to the text, discuss the theme of war

Based on General Literary Principles

A melodramatic play is based on

• A. a melodious manipulation of events
• B. ingredients that mellow down events
• C. sensational plot and characters
• D. the playwright's didactic overtones

These question is based on General Literary Principles.

A literary work that ridicules the shortcomings of people or ideas is

• A. an irony
• B. a fable
• C. a masque
• D. a satire