This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

The king who is poisoned in the Garden in the play-within-the-play is

• A. Gozango
• B. Negtine
• C. Bernardo
• D. Hamlet

This question is based on Ahmed Yerima''s Attahiru.

The play is historical because it deals with

• A. real personages and places
• B. the jihad led by Caliph Attahiru
• C. Luggard's attempt to amalgamate the southern and northern protectorates
• D. Attahiru''s ascension to the caliphacy in November 1902

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Ghost serves to

• A. accelerate dramatic conflict
• B. intensify dramatic conflict
• C. initiate dramatic conflict
• D. complicate dramatic conflict

This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

The dispute between Sarkin Zango and Sarkin Fatake is over a

• A. horse
• B. piece of land
• C. source of water
• D. farmland

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. 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 (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga D.I. (ed.): Weast African Verse.

In Cheney-Coker's Myopia, the attitude of the poet is one of

• A. sympathy
• B. joy
• C. empathy
• D. envy

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

'But, howsoever thou pursuest this act,

Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother....'

The ghost exhorts young Hamlet not to kill his mother because

• A. his wife is bewitched into falling for Claudius' seduction
• B. the ghost wishes her to be left to the torment of her conscience
• C. the ghost still loves his wife even in death
• D. the young Hamlet will be guilty of matricide

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. 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 (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga D.I. (ed.): Weast African Verse.

The character addressed in Serenade is

• A. from a poor family
• B. in a joyous mood
• C. in a sad mood
• D. at war with another character

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

The seeming shifty structure of the play is used to

• A. assist in the development of the characters
• B. sustain the reader's interest
• C. reflect the emotional and psychological state of Hamlet
• D. slow down the pace of the plot development

This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi'sThe New Man

After listening to the soldiers' conversation, the convict decides to

• A. get in touch with his relation immediately
• B. hide in the bush for one day and later contact Laoye Layeni
• C. hide in the bush for one week and later contact Sade
• D. contact his friends who arrange his movement

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

An anti-social taken by the tragic hero which results in a catastrophe is called

• A. anagnorisis
• B. premonition
• C. harmatia
• D. empathy