This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo is evicted to__________because he__________

• A. Mantua, fights Tybalt in a street duel
• B. Capulet's party, kills Tybalt in a street duel
• C. Mantua, fights and kills Tybalt in a street duel
• D. Mantua, kills Paris in a street duel.

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

A melodramatic play is based on

• A. a melodious manipulation of events
• B. ingredients that mellow down events
• C. sensational plot and characters
• D. the playwright's didactic overtones

'Oshor:...Winds howl forth-howl forth,

hold back hold back-is the time- oh

endless time-slung in oblivion,

make minced meat of your prey.

Charity Angya, The Cycle of the Moon.

The literary device used is

• A. parallelism
• B. irony
• C. onomatopoeia
• D. repetition

AFRICAN POETRY

Comment on Boy on a swing as a search for self identity.

This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four.

Room 101 symbolizes a place of

• A. rest
• B. humiliation
• C. torture
• D. fun

The figure of speech dominant in these lines is _____

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

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The narrator that tells his story as if all actions in the story revolve around him is

• A. an omniscient narrator
• B. a first person narrator
• C. a second person narrator
• D. a third person narrator

One of the following is used to develop character

• A. Climax
• B. Atmosphere
• C. Setting
• D. Dialogue

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

The Trials of Brother Jero.

JERO: In that case, since, Brother Chume,

your wife seems such a wicked, willful sinner,

I think ....

CHUME: Yes, Holy One...?

JERO: You must take her home tonight...

Jero concedes to Chume taking his wife home and beating her in order to

• A. keep his secret secret
• B. get the beating out of the way quickly
• C. enable jero get into his house
• D. keep Chume's loyalty

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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.

'The eye that looks down will surely see the nose

The finger that fits should be used to pick the nose

The lines above from 'Hurrah for Thunder' bear two major connotations. These are

• A. watchfulness and awareness
• B. sensitiveness and arrogance
• C. patience and caution
• D. caution and justice