This question is based on S.I. Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.

The attitude of the narrator to religion in the novel is

• A. fundamentalist
• B. liberal
• C. ambiguous
• D. fanatical

This question is based on General Literary Principles

In literary convention, 'aside' is used to

• A. make a pointed remark
• B. emphasize scenes as different from acts
• C. distinguish between events
• D. gossip about other characters

A plot in a literary work is about

• A. character delineation
• B. casual arrangement of events
• C. resolution of conflicts
• D. law of poetic justic

Read the poem and answer Questions 26 to 30.

Oft in the stilly night

Ere slumber's chain has bound me

Fond memory brings the light

of other days around me:

The smiles, the tears

of boyhood years.

The words of love then spoken;

The eyes that shone

How dimm'd and.gone

The cheerful hearts now broken!

Thus in the stilly night

Ere slumber's chain has bound me.

The predominant use of long vowels in the first sentence heightens the ______ of the waves

• A. anger
• B. expanse
• C. great noise
• D. endless movement

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.

''Where is the human touch?'' conveys an impression of

• A. disappointment
• B. expectation
• C. discontent
• D. indifference

This question is based on General Literary Principles

That quality in a literary work which evokes tenderness, pity or sorrow is

• A. pathopoeia
• B. pathos
• C. pataphysics
• D. patois

Answer all the questions in this section

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest

Read the extract and anser the question.

Silence ! One word more

Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. What!

An advocate for an impostor! Hush!

(Act 1,Scene Two, lines 478 - 480)

The Speaker is

• A. Gonzalo
• B. Antonio
• C. Prospero
• D. Alonso

A character that is always against the interest of the protagonist is

• A. opposition
• B. heroine
• C. villain
• D. hero

The most dominant poetic device used in Okara's 'Panio and Drums' is_______

• A. Metaphor
• B. Symbolism
• C. Pathetic Fallacy
• D. Analogy

Which of the following is an African poet?

• A. Dennis Brutus
• B. William Wordsworth
• C. Rober Frost
• B. William Wordsworth