This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

To raise the reader's anxiety about the story, the author sometimes

• A. stops the main story to narrate other events
• B. creates a lot of funny episodes
• C. puts too many difficulties in Adans way
• D. shows that Francis is weaks

The narrative style in which the hero tells his own story directly is the

• A. objective
• B. first-person
• C. subjective
• D. third-person

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.

Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' is concerned with devastation because

• A. the poet had fought in many wars
• B. of the destruction of part of Africa by the weather
• C. of the impact of white domination on parts of Africa
• D. of the destruction of the shrines of the ancestors

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

The dominant images in Nyi Osundare's 'They Too are the Earth'are

• A. disease, illness and death
• B. aristocracy, affluence and wealth
• C. poverty, suffering and the downtrodden
• D. greed aristocracy and the ambitious

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)

Speaker A is

• A. Jessica
• B. Gratiano
• C. Portia
• D. Nerissa

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

When a writer refers to past events to throw light on current ones he is employing

• A. retrospection
• B. flashback
• C. historical drama
• D. dramatic shift

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)

The person addressed is in the company of

• A. Antonio
• B. Solanio
• C. Bassanio
• D. Jessica

Ngotho was pleased. And Nyolabi and Njeri were full of joy at the news. For the first time many years something like a glimmer of light shone in Ngotho's eyes. He could even be seen making an effort to walk upright. Here at last was a son who might eventually be a match for the Howlands and Jacobos and any others who at all despised him. Kamanu too was pleased. He hoped he could go on helping Njoroge. Njoroge might do something for the family. Njoroge was happy. His first impulse when he learnt what he had gone through was to kneel down and thank God for all He had done for him. ' Give me more and more learning and make me the instrument of thy light and peace. 'To go to Secondary School, the big mission at Siriana, was no small achievement.

The mood of the people in the extract is that of

• A. sadness and tiredness
• B. depression andd anixiety
• C. happiness and hope
• D. anger and aggression

AFRICAN POETRY

9. How does the diction convey the theme of Adeoti's Ambush?

10. Discuss the theme of accommodation in The Anvi! d the Hammer

The poetic device used in this expression is____

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