Speaker: I think this tale would win my daughter too,

Good Brabantio, take up this mangled matter at the best

Men do their broken weapons rather use

Than their bare hands

(Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 171-174)

According to the speaker__________

• A. The tale was good enough to win a woman's heart
• B. The fight was unnecessary
• C. The charges were a waste of time
• D. There were other matters demanding the attention of the Senate

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

Serrated shadows, through dark leaves

Til, bathed in warm suffusion of your dapped cells

Sensation pained me, faceless, silent

as night thieves.

Wole Soyinka: Night

The dominant mood in the lines above is one of

• A. apprehension
• B. defiance
• C. joy
• D. indifference

Fights by the book of arithmetic

The figure of speech in the line above is

• A. litotes
• B. innuendo
• C. hyperbole
• D. euphemism

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

The novel is about growth because

• A. Farfrae replaces Henchard as the Mayor of Casterbridge
• B. of socio-economic changes in Casterbridge society
• C. Henchard finally permits Farfrae to woo Elizabeth-Jane
• D. Henchard gradually attains self-awareness

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Use the following extract to answer the question that follows:

Lie bath rid his prologue like a rough colt: he knows not the stop.

A good moral, my lord: it is not enough to speak, but to speak true.

• A. Lysander
• B. Demetrius
• C. Titania
• D. Hippolyta

Read the poem and answer the question

In front of the gate, the guard stands with his rifle,

Above, untidy clouds are carrying away the moon,

The bedbugs are swarming around like army tanks on manoeuvers

While the mosquitoes form squadrons, attacking like fighter planes.

My heart travels a thousand miles towards my native land.

My dream interwines with sadness like a stein of a thousand threads,

Innocent, I have endured a whole year in prison

Using my tears for ink, I turn my thoughts into verses.

The impression created of the persona is one of

• A. anger
• B. competitiveness
• C. reconciliation
• D. resignation

This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's. The old Man and the Medal.

In the novel the colonialists treat the Africans with

• A. disdain
• B. indifference
• C. honour
• D. kid gloves

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

. The medicine man links the lump discovered on the head of Nnu Ego at birth, to the

• A. wound inflicted on the slave woman buried with Agbadi's wife
• B. coming back of the Agunwa to the society to live again
• C. ill-luck and tragic events attributed to a predestined fate
• D. possession of physical admirable qualities that makes her an epitoma of perfection

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems 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: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.

In Niyi Osundare' s ' They Too Are The

• A. repetition
• B. double rhymes
• C. assonance
• D. end rhymes

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The physical,historical or cultural background of a literary work is referred to as

• A. plot
• B. time
• C. setting
• D. episode