Which of these secondary characters stands out from the others in the development of the action in Ozidi?
Answer
(B)
Azezabife
3
Mr Johnson always buys beautiful things for his wife Bamu because
Answer
(D)
his friends buy such things for their wives
4
The dominant feeling in Leopold Sedar Senghor's 'In Memoriam' is
Answer
(B)
nostalgia
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'Exposition' in a play means
Answer
(A)
the initial unfolding of the necessary background of the play
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A novel can be described as
Answer
(D)
an extended prose narrative covering a wide range of characters and experience
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A good plot must posses
Answer
(E)
single,complete and ordered action
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Pick out the odd one
Answer
(B)
Characterization
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Events in The Concubine are dominated by
Answer
(D)
supernatural elements
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In 'Come Away My Love' Kariuki deals with the problems of
Answer
(D)
love between people of different races
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Although the following statement is not a direct quotation from any books,it serves as as an aid to identifying characters that appear in the works.Read it carefully and say which character is likely to make it: 'How could i have succumbed to the pressures of the corrupt society?I thought i would be a successful social reformer but now i am as bad as those i criticize'
Answer
(E)
Obi Okonkwo
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The difference between tragedy and comedy is
Answer
(E)
none of the above
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A play is drama because
Answer
(D)
it can be acted on the stage
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The central theme of Shakespeare's As You Like It is
Answer
(E)
the nature of true love
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Which of the following statements is true of Shakespeare's Macbeth
Answer
(C)
The tragedy of Macbeth is caused by Macbeth's ambition and some other factors
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One of the following is a mark of good poetry
Answer
(B)
Imaginative use of language
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In Night of Seine,the word'dark' in 'listen to our dark blood beat' is used
Answer
(C)
figuratively
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'Stream-side Exchange' primarily shows J.P Clark's interest in
Answer
(E)
destiny
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In 'The Call of the River Nun','O'incomprehensible God!' expresses the poet's
Answer
(D)
rejection of God
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Kalu Uka's 'Earth to Earth' is about one of the following
Answer
(A)
death
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Dennis Brutus' 'A Troubadour I Traverse' is on the following
Answer
(A)
a poem of resistance against oppression
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In 'The Vultures' the vultures are
Answer
(C)
colonial masters
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In 'The Duel' the line 'And the swords clicked and scrapped,and the onsets sped' indicates
Answer
(E)
the fierceness of the fight
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'The Sacrilege' ends on a note of the complexity of
Answer
(D)
fate
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'The Choir master's Burial' shows man
Answer
(B)
ingratitude
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In 'Wild Grapes' the narrator says 'You see me celebrate two birthdays,And give myself out as two different ages because
Answer
(C)
the incident of the poem begins a new chapter in her life
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'Strange Meeting' reveals the absurdity of
Answer
(C)
hatred
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Romeo and Juliet
"O'Romeo,Romeo!Wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy father and refuse thy name"
Juliet makes this statement because
Answer
(B)
she hates Romeo's father
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A Raisin' in the Sun
That's it.There you are.Man say to his woman got me a dream.His woman got me a dream.His woman say:I got to take hold of this here world,baby!And a woman will say:Eat your eggs and go to work....
'a dream' in this speech refers to
Answer
(B)
a prosperous academic career
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I lingered over the choice
But in the darkness of my doubts
You lifted the lamp of love
And i saw in your face
The road that i should take
In 'The Mesh' the poet 'lingered over the choice' because
Answer
(C)
he is not yet sure of his love for the lady
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The Concubine
'Ihuoma,my child' Wigwe began at last,'really i ought to have come here with more people,but i have avoided formalities because i want to spare myself any embarrassment.Formalities will come later if all goes well'.
Wigwe has come to Ihuoma in order to
Answer
(C)
persuade her to marry his own son
32
In 'The Executioner's Dream',the first line 'I dream I saw an eye,a pretty eye' is
Answer
(A)
ironical
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In Birago Diop's 'Vanity',these two lines 'Sad complaining voices of beggars
Who indeed will hear them without laughter?'contain
Answer
(C)
a paradox
34
In 'Telephone Conversation', the tone of the question 'You mean-like plain or milk chocolate? is
Answer
(A)
sarcastic
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In 'Night',Soyinka describes night as
Answer
(B)
terrifying
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Modern African Stories
In Alex la Guma's A Matter of Taste, it is a matter of taste to eat exactly what you want because
Answer
(B)
you can afford it
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She rose up.She walked up to the table.She stirred up the food once more,and lifted it up from the hot plate.She picked up the second pan and placed it on the red coils.From underneath,in the cardboard box,she collected two enamel plates green with a red band.she wiped them with a white napkin hanging on the line over the bed.she brought out two forks and two spoons.
By using details, the author of the above passage makes the scene
Answer
(C)
realistic
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The Adventure of Tom Sawyer depicts Tom's
Answer
(A)
naivety
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In Kossoh Town Boy,the hero presents his father as
Answer
(C)
strict
40
Kontiki Expedition demonstrates human
Answer
(D)
courage
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Mtchali's 'Nightfall in Soweto'is about one of the following
Answer
(E)
a wicked man opressing a helpless man
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We returned to our places,these kingdoms ,
But no longer at ease here,in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their goods.
I should be glad of another death.
The author of these lines is
Answer
(D)
T.S. Elliot
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Peter Abraham's Mine Boy is about one of the following
Answer
(D)
conflict of the culture
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In a 'Portrait', a poet writes:
At mankind's feast,i take my place
In solemn,sanctimonious state,
And have the air of saying grace
While i defile the dinner plate.
The tone of this passage may be described as
Answer
(B)
self-mocking
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Our attitude to the hero of George Elliot's Silas Marner is one of
