What distinguishes a novel from a play is

• A. characters
• B. setting
• C. narration
• D. theme

This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless.

Kabria's second child is

• A. Ottu
• B. Adade
• C. Essie
• D. Obea

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Zounds, sir, y' are robbed! For shame, put on your gown!

Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul.

Even now, very now, an old black ram

is tupping your white eww. Arise. arise!

Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,

Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you

Arise i say! (Act 1, scene one,lines 83 - 89)

The listener's initial reaction to the speech is one of _________

• A. anger
• B. defiance
• C. disbelief
• D. regret

Based on Asare Konadu's A Woman in Her Prime, the worst calamity that can befall a woman is

• A. barreness
• B. inability to bear male children
• C. inability to marry
• D. divorce

A sub-plot is

• A. a major turn or complication in the main story
• B. the second part of the main plot
• C. a secondary plot dealing with a different theme
• D. an aspect of the main plot recited by a different narrator

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

'I thank you God for creating me black

For making of me

Porter of all sorrows

Sitting on my head

The World

I wear the Centaur's hide

And I have carried the World since the first morning'.

'I Thank You God' by Benard Dadie

The poet's attitude here is being

• A. ironical
• B. whimsical
• C. sorrowful
• D. sarcastic

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

What prompts Nnu Ego to run to the effigy of her Chi is that

• A. she is worried and sick
• B. she is pregnant
• C. the Chi asks her to come
• D. milk is dripping from her breasts

This question is based on General Literary Principles

Black theater is drama concerned with

• A. mourners dressed in black
• B. actors of black origin
• C. the identity of black Americans
• D. Africans of West Indian origin

The chorus normally features prominently in

• A. poetry
• B. the epic
• C. the novel
• D. drama

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

use the quotation below to answer these two questions

'Bash: You dumb skull of a bone head... you will face court martial for this. You look everywhere? You search inside toilet bowl?

Wole Soyinka: King Baabu

From the tone of the speech above the speaker is obviously

• A. lackadaisical
• B. elated
• C. happy
• D. enraged