This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

''....that no man however great was greater than his people; that no one ever won judgement against his clan.''

Achebe's conclusion was that

• A. the individual should submit his will to that of the clan
• B. very few people have the ability to dictate to their clan
• C. a man should impose his judgement on the clan if he is strong enough to do so
• D. the clan generally ensures that the individual is reduced to weakness

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

'Now I fear disturbance of the quiet season Winter shall come

bringing death from the sea

Ruinous spring shall beat at our doors

Root and shoot shall eat eyes and our ears'.

The dramatic technique employed in this passage is

• A. irony
• B. anticlimax
• C. foreshadowing
• D. flasback

Read the poem and answer the question

Move him into the sun

Gently its touch awoke him once,

At home, whispering of fields unsown

Always it woke him even in France

Until this morning and this snow

If anything might rouse him now

This kind old sun will know

Think how it wakes the seeds

Woke,once, the clays of a cold star

Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides,

Full-nerved still warm too hard to stir?

Was it for this the clay grew tall?

O what made fatuous sunbeams toil

To break earth's sleep at all?

One of the dominant literary devices used in the poem is

• A. hyperbole
• B. simile
• C. assonance
• D. metaphhor

Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, the man is despised by the wife and family because he

• A. does not give them sufficient money to maintain the house
• B. does not capitalize on his education and position to get ahead
• C. does not join Koomson's political party
• D. fails in his campaign to get into the government house

Based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

The stage direction at the end of the play reveals

• A. the actors in a changing room
• B. Mama Kayode raising the song of hope
• C. Moremi and Titubi in harsh spotlight
• D. the Director making a farewell speech

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

Susan concealed the true parentage of Elizabeth Jane in order to

• A. safeguard her daughter's dignity
• B. avenge Henchard for offending her
• C. escape Henchard's curse
• D. Prevent Newson from claiming his daughter.

Pick the odd item

• A. comedy
• B. prose
• C. drama
• D. poetry

EMILY BRONTE: Wuthering Heights

Examine the relationship between Lockwood and Heathcliff in the novel

Consider the theme of culture neglect in Diop’s Vanity

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

'When our Dead come with their Dead

When they have spoken to us with their clumsy voices...'

These lines from Birago Diop's poem. 'Vanity', refer to

• A. the way in which the dead communicate with us
• B. the clash of cultures in modern civilization
• C. the elders' lack of sophistication
• D. our inability to understand our ancestors