Based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears.

The novel is largely set in

• A. Futa Toro
• B. Sabonville city
• C. Alligator city
• D. Nuclear city

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You cramthese words into mine ears against

The stomach of my sense. Would I had never

Married my daughter there! For, coming thence,

My son is lost, and,in my rate, she too,

(Act II, Scene One, lines 99 - 102)

''These words'' refer to

• A. the shipwreck
• B. the son's disappearance
• C. the daughter's wedding
• D. Prospero's magic

This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

Lord Lugard and the British military find it easy to penetrate the Sokoto Caliphate because the

• A. Muslim faithfuls fight with bows and arrows while the British solders use rifles
• B. Emir of Zazzau calls the whitemen to save him from the attack of a fellow Muslim, the Emir of Kontagora
• C. emirates of Sokoto and Zaria have not been friends since the reign of Caliph Abduirahman
• D. emirates are only united to fight the whitemen when it is the turn of Sokoto

Dramatis personae refers to ________

• A. audience
• B. characters
• C. chorus
• D. cast

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 and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

In Rubadiri's 'Stanley Meets Mutesa' the king receives the explorer with

• A. suspicion
• B. delight
• C. optimism
• D. relief

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This kindness will I show.

Go with me to a notary; seal me there

Your single bond, and , in a merry sport,

If you repay me not on such a day,

....let the forfeit

Be nominated for an equal pound....

(Act One Scene 111)

The ''Kindness'' the speaker has agreed to ''show'' is

• A. debt rescheduling
• B. sponsorship of pilgrimage
• C. payment of dowry
• D. interest-free loan

The exclusive right given to authors to protect their works from unlawful production is

• A. an authority to write
• B. a copyright
• C. an author's right
• D. a constitutional provision

Read the poem and answer the question

Here stood our ancestral home

The crumbling wall marks the spot

Here a sheep was led to the slaughter

To appease the goods and atone

For fauilts which our destiny

Has blossomed into crimes

There my cursed father once stood

And shouted to us, his children

To come back from our play

To our evening meal and sleep.

The mood of the poem is

• A. hopeful
• B. joyful
• C. nostalgic
• D. exciting

These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) West African Verse.

In Owonibi's Homeless, not Hopeless, the persona explains that street beggars

• A. are concerned with their daily needs
• B. always worry about heaven
• C. rarely sleep and dream
• D. attend conferences in towns

This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives' Revolt

The 'Proclamation' and 'Reclamation' segments of the play are performed

• A. as an aside
• B. by a chorus off-stage
• C. on-stage and off-stage
• D. off-stage