This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born'.

'...no difference at all between the '' whitemen'' and their apes the layers and the merchants and now apes of the apes our Party men ...'

The statement above refers to Koomson's

• A. commitment to the plight of the poor man
• B. reaction to the politics of betrayal
• C. change of attitude to the plight of the poor man
• D. disgust with the ''whitemen'' who are apes

This question is based on Literary Appreciation

'Since you left here my mind longs after there Now in the dark I grope Keenly striving to cope'

Gbemisola Adeoti: Absence

The dominant technique in the lines above is

• A. irony
• B. rhyme
• C. alliteration
• D. metaphor

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

A dramatic composition or musical play in which many or all the words are sung is called

• A. an oratorio
• B. a motet
• C. an opera
• D. a concert

This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments .

The novel suggests that an individual who stays apart from his society will

• A. be praised for his action
• B. be alienated by his society
• C. be broken by his society
• D. live a fulfilled life

Read the extract below and answer the following question:

(In the Town Hall)

Jonsey: (By himself, centre right, looking sulky) How does anyone keep faith with himself In such an ill-made place?

Bassy, Ba-a-ssy!

Bassy: Here. Anything the matter?

Jonsey: (Moves front stage centre right) Your mayoral hopeful.

• A. the audience
• B. Bassey
• C. no one
• D. himself

You are the salt of my life illustrates a

• A. metaphor
• B. simile
• C. irony
• D. personification

A verbal irony occurs when a speaker on stage

• A. intends more than he says
• B. is alone
• C. tries to deceive the audience
• D. is misunderstood

NON — AFRICAN PROSE

WILLIAM GOLDING: Lord Of The Flies

Comment on Jack's leadership style

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.

The persona in Kassam's Maji Maji represents the

• A. warriors
• B. Germans
• C. Mzee
• D. listeners

Read the poem and answer Questions

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 writer's attitude to the scene is one of _________

• A. anxiety
• B. awe
• C. contempt
• D. indiference