Read the extract and answer the question

And for your part,..., I do wish

That your good beauties be the happy cause

Of ...wildness: so shall I hope your virtues

Will bring him to his wonted way again,

To both your honours,

(Act Three, Scene I, lines 37-42)

The character being addressed is

• A. Laertes
• B. Hamlet
• C. Polonius
• D. Ophelia

You can call me a rebel, but I need a job. That's what matters to me. The repercussion of this statement by Aloho is a pointer to the theme ____

• A. Of Corruption
• B. That patience is a virtue
• C. On Unemployment
• D. Of Retributive Justice

The introductory part of a play, a novel or a poem is the ________

• A. epilogue
• B. plot
• C. setting
• D. prologue

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the poem below and answer the question

Now, Joy is born of parents poor,

And Pleasure of our richer kind;

Though Pleasure's free, she cannot sing

As sweet a song as Joy confined.

Pleasure's a moth, that sleeps by day

And dances by false glare at night;

But joy's a Butterfly, that loves

To spread its wings in Nature's light.

The poem says that ''Joy'' is

• A. for the poor
• B. natural and satisfying
• C. artificial and transitory
• D. for lover

WOLE SOYINKA: The Lion and the Jewel

Discuss the significance of the use of play-within-a play technique.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice

Read the extract below and answer the question

A : My people do already know my mind,

And will acknowledge you and Jessica

In place of Lord Bassanio and myself

So fare thee till we shall meet again

B : Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you

(Act 111, sc IV)

• From the extract speaker A intends A. forgiving the merchant
• B. eloping to the city
• C. going to a monastery
• D. challenging the Jew

Read the passage below and answer the question The killing of a whale at sea isn't pleasant to witness or even to contemplate. Hunted down through solar and other highly specialized equipment, the whale has no more chance of escape like a steer in a slaughterhouse. The manner of his death, however, is very different. A grenade-tipped harpoon explodes deep within his body, often causing prolonged suffering before the gentle-giant, whose intelligence may be second only to our own, is reduced to a carcass ready for processing into crayons, lipstick, shoe polish, fertilizer, margarine and pet food.

The inhumane manner of death, however, is the least part of the scandal known as the whaling industry. Much more important is the fact that the killing is quite unnecessary. Adeguate substitutes exist for every single use to which the whale carcasses are currently put, and although some 32,000 whales are killed every year, the sum of commodities are provide is insignificant in the world's economy.

The passage is

• A. descriptive
• B. narrative
• C. argumentative
• D. expository

These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African poetry;Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam focus:Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds): Longman Examination Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.

In Elliot's Journey of the Magi, the magic are aided on their journey by

• A. horses
• B. carmels
• C. chariots
• D. donkeys

Criticism is a literary activity which seeks to

• A. Find faults in a literary work
• B. Analyze and evaluate a literary work
• C. compare and contrast novels
• D. Discover the beauty of a literary work.

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

'Thomas Gradgrind, sir. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.'

Charles Dickens, Hard Times

From the passage above, Thomas Gradgrind is

• A. dogmatic
• B. hostile
• C. theoretical
• D. eloguent