Anansewa's grandmother prays that the man who marries Anansewa
Answer
(E)
helps the family
2
Chief-Who-Is-Chief won Anansewa for his wife because he
Answer
(B)
showed the greatest love for her
3
George Kweku Ananse in the marriage of Anansewa was
Answer
(A)
a tricker
4
The marriage of Anansewa is a play based on Ghanian
Answer
(C)
folktales
5
After the murder of Duncan , Macbeth was still dissatisfied because
Answer
(B)
he had only paved the way for Banquo's son
6
'But 't is strange:
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instrument of darkness tells us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betrays in deepest consequences'.
These words were spoken by
Answer
(A)
Banquo
7
Macbeth is confident that he will not be defeated in battle because
Answer
(E)
the witches gave him an assurance
8
'They have tied me to a stake:I cannot fly, But bear like i must fight the course'.
Macbeth here is represented as
Answer
(C)
pitiable but courageous
9
Which group of characters appears in Macbeth?
Answer
(C)
Lennox, Donalbain, Seyton
10
The banished Duke regained his kingdom when his brother Frederick
Answer
(D)
was converted by a religious man
11
Olivia hated Orlando because Orlando
Answer
(C)
was preferred by the people to himself
12
'Sweet are the uses of adversity
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head'
The speaker of the above lines from As You Like It' is
Answer
(D)
Duke senior
13
In As You Like It, the forest of Arden could symbolize
Answer
(C)
goodness
14
In Kongi's Harvest, there is a struggle for power between Kongi and
Answer
(B)
Oba Danlola
15
Part of the meaning of Kongi's Harvest lies in the fact that Kongi's final harvest is
Answer
(C)
disaster
16
In Kongi's Harvest, Wole Soyinka dramatizes
Answer
(D)
the growth and development of political tyranny
17
Who accompanied Kongi on his retreat
Answer
(E)
The secretary
18
Drama is essentially different from poetry because
Answer
(B)
exist mainly in action
19
Which of the following statements best describes comedy
Answer
(D)
a play which end happily
20
'Such drizzling can go on for many days', she said in a dull voice. They both relapsed into silence, making a picture of bereaved children from whom life has suddenly lost warmth, colour, and excitement. There was no fire in the hearth. The mood caught in this scene is one of
Answer
(E)
sadness.
21
'Had I the heaven's embroidered cloths; Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths of night and light and the half-lighgt i would spread the cloths under your feet: But |, being poor, have only my dreams; l have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams'.
The poet of these lines
Answer
(D)
is a sensitive, serious lover
22
'During this speech the elders who didn't understand a word of what their learned secretary was saying nodded approval intermittently. When it was over the elders said yes, they had a learned man indeed, a man who could speak for them, a man who knew the wisdom of the old white people, not like the small boys nowadays who cant even read a telegram'.
In these passage the elders are presented as
Answer
(C)
impressed by the secretary
23
'The celebration is now ended
but the echoes are all around
whirling like a harmattan
whirl-wind throwing dust around
and hands cover faces and feet grope'
There are strong suggestions in the last lines that the occasion celebrated
Answer
(B)
did not kead to joyful times
24
'Now the bells are tolling
A year is dead.
And my heart is slowly beating
the Nunc Dimittis
to all my hopes and mute
yearnings of a year
and ghost hover round
dream beyond dream'.
For this poet, the passing year has
Answer
(D)
meant unrealized hopes
25
'Tired teachers wipe
The chalk dust
On their faces
The school dam bursts
Ans floods of hungry children
Melt into their mother's bosoms'.
In this passage describing the end of the school day, children's movements are made memorable through the use, in lines 4-5 of
Answer
(B)
metaphor
26
Zambia Shall Be Free is a
Answer
(B)
autobiography
27
In Zambia Shall Be Free although Kaunda was well settled and happy as a teacher at Lubwa, he was restless because
Answer
(A)
his pay was poor
28
What Gerry liked most about Theodore Shephanides in My Family and Other Animals was his
Answer
(E)
inexhaustible knowledge.
29
In the early days of the Durrell's sojourn on the island of Corfu, Gerry's most constant companion was
Answer
(C)
Spiro
30
Naipaul's The Middle Passage is best described as
Answer
(C)
an autobiography
31
'For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share'.
In these lines from Gray's 'Elegy Written in a country churchyard' the poet is referred to
Answer
(E)
all those buried in the graveyard
32
As the magi journey towards their destination, voices singing in their understand was
Answer
(C)
foolish
33
The clouds were thickening in the red sky
And night and charmed
A black power into the pounding waves...'
The figure of speech used in these lines from Kwesi
Brew's 'The Sea Eats Our Land's is
Answer
(B)
personification
34
In 'Salute to the Elephant', the poet
Answer
(C)
describes the attributes of the elephants
35
In these lines from Keats 'Ode to a Nightingale'
'The heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense as though of hemlock I had drunk Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains one minute past and Lethe-wards had sunk',
the poet uses
Answer
(D)
octosyllabic metre
36
The main idea suggests in Kalu Uka's poem 'Earth To Earth
Answer
(B)
man's mortality
37
''Troubadour, I Traverse all my land exploring all her wide flung parts with zest probing in motion sweeter far than rest her secret thickets with an amorous hand''.
The above lines from Brutus 'poem' A Troubadour l Traverse'indicate that the poet
Answer
(E)
has a deep-rooted love for his country
38
The night is significant in 'Nightfall in Soweto' because
Answer
(D)
black people are persecuted even in their own homes at night
39
The word 'Fence' in peter's poem 'The Fence'symbolizes
Answer
(D)
moral indecision
40
In Rubadiri's 'Stanley meets Mutesa' Mtu Mweupe Karibu means
Answer
(C)
whiteman, you are welcome
41
In Lord Tennyson's 'Ulysses'the phrase 'happy lsles' refers to
