This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.

The relationships of Nnaife family are

• A. humiliation and disagreement
• B. sickness and joblessness
• C. poverty and hunger
• D. togetherness and happiness

A short witty saying is a/an

• A. epitaph
• B. sonnet
• C. limerick
• D. epigram

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.

What notion dominates Oswald Mtshali's 'The washerwoman's Prayer'?

• A. Piety
• B. Ageing
• C. Indifference
• D. Inequality

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation. Assonance occurs when

• A. a character speaks eloquently in a play
• B. similar vowel sounds are repeated in a sentence or line of poetry
• C. consonants are repeated at the beginning of words
• D. words rhyme alternately

The state of mind of a poet can be described as

• A. style
• B. mood
• C. setting
• D. theme

Read the passage below and answer the question

Stella had to do her midweek shopping. There were four people before her in the queue. She watched the blond at the counter striking feverishly away at the numbers on the cold, light-flickering machine. There seemed to be a raging war between two mechanical contraptions, one, robot-like and the other stationary, but able to respond to the extent of punching, by sharp flickers of red light. It was an all consuming battle,as a swift hand positioned the price label of the ceaseless flow of item on the coneyor belt and the right delivered the punches. The intending owners were more unnoticed onlookers. Anyway, there is a belated recognition of them in ''thank you, call again balance sheet. '' It's all so mechanical, she thought. I mean, any creature-baboon, extraterrestial being or anything - could as well receive the same treatment as long as the conditions are met- ''bring to the counter, labelled items from the shelves.''Where is the human touch? She wondered.

The dominant literary device used in the passage is

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

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

One major narrative technique a novel shares with drama is

• A. scenes
• B. dialogue
• C. soliloquy
• D. sarcasm

Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth Wole Soyinka: Night.

Night children in the stanza above reflects the consciousness of__________

• A. birds
• B. armed robbers
• C. animals
• D. spirit beings

Based on General Literary Principles

Romantic poetry emphasizes

• A. the beauty of nature
• B. intimate relationships
• C. the love in human nature
• D. the romance in human aspiration

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice

Read the extract below and answer the question

If I can catch him once upon the hip,

I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

He hates our sacred nation, and he rails,

Even there where merchants most do congregate,

On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift,

Which he calls interest;......

(Act 1 Scene Three, lines 39-)

The underlined expression illustrates

• A. assonance
• B. metaphor
• C. wit
• D. euphemism