An essential part of the plot is____________

• A. Characterization
• B. Exposition
• C. Atmosphere
• D. Foreshadow

NON AFRICAN PROSE

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: The Old Man and the Sea

What do you learn from the life of Santiago as a fisherman?

Read the poem below and answer questions 26 to 30.

We wear the mask that grins and lies,

It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,

This debt we pay to human guile;

With torn and bleeding hearts we smile

And mouths with myriad subtleties,

Why should the world be over-wise,

In counting all our tears and sighs?

Nay, let them only see us, while

We wear the mask.

We smile but O great god, our cries

To thee from tortured souls arise

We sing, but oh the clay is vile

Beneath our feet and long the mile,

But let the world dream otherwise,

We wear the mask!

The rhyme scheme of the first stanza is

• A. aabcc
• B. ababac
• C. aabbc
• D. abbac

The persona's mood is one of ________

• A. anger
• B. admiration
• C. indifference
• D. joy

Read the extract below and answer this question.

But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position. She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horribly, and the work of a million years was lost.

The image depicted in the extract is one of

• A. destruction
• B. merriment
• C. happiness
• D. amiration

This question is based on Literary Appreciation

'Those years of my travels. Years of innocence and experience...months of twidding my thumbs with insecurity in search of my true people. Yes in search of my true people. But wherever I went I did not find people but caricatures of people who insisted on being taken seriously as people Perhaps I was on the wrong planet. In the wrong skin.

Dambudzo- Marechera, Black Sunlight.

The passage above expresses the state of mind of

• A. an alienated man
• B. an adventurer
• C. a renegade soldir
• D. a prisoner

This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi's The New Man

The tension generated at Ipaja and Iwuya early in the novel is a result of

• A. Prophet Elijah's trance
• B. Badejo's antigraft posture
• C. the campaign for parliamentary election
• D. the increase in cocoa prices

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 speech is an example of a/an

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

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Use the following extract to answer the question that follows:

Lie bath rid his prologue like a rough colt: he knows not the stop.

A good moral, my lord: it is not enough to speak, but to speak true.

• A. Snug
• B. Starveling
• C. Snout
• D. Quince

Read the extract below and answer the question

A : Save thee, friend and thy music. Dost thou live by thy labor?

B : No, sir, I live by the church.

A : Art thou a churchman?

B : No such matter, sir, I do live by the church, for I do live at my hose, and my house doth stand by the church.

(Act 3 Sc 1.)

Speaker B is

• A. Sir Andrew
• B. Clown
• C. Feste
• D. The Duke