' Chief, the boys are getting more expensive to handle. They continue to demand for increased pay and you know what you give for expenses. Please try and look into a possible increases in the overhead allocation.
This smuggling racket is becoming too hot to handle you know, the risk involved'.
The scene of the conversation in the excerpt above is
Answer
(D)
the Police Station
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''Chief, the boys are getting more expensive to handle. They continue to demand for increased pay and you know what you give for expenses. Please try and look into a possible increase in the overhead allocation.
This smuggling racket is becoming too hot to handle you know, the risk involved'.
The setting of the play is
Answer
(D)
Jabu
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This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption.
From its resolution of conflicts. the play can be described as being
Answer
(D)
didactic
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This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption.
Aloho is employed as Chief's
Answer
(B)
Protocol Officer
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This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption.
'I thought as much. I know that all these hide-and-seek games that have been going on will one day come to light'.\
The speaker of the excerpt above is
Answer
(D)
Mrs Obi
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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.
The handkerchief that Othello inherits from his mother is made by
Answer
(A)
a female prophet
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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.
The first character in the play to refer to Othello by name is
Answer
(C)
the Duke
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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.
The hypocritical character in the play is
Answer
(B)
lago
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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.
Othello kills himself with a
Answer
(B)
sword
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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.
'No faith; she let it drop by negligence. And, to the advantage, I, being here, took up look, here it is.'
This speaker of the lines above is
Answer
(D)
Emilia
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This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless. 'Ordaley ignored the two young women plating their hair because she didn't want to generate another war with a simple greeting'
The image depicted in the lines above is
Answer
(C)
hyperbolic
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This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless.
After impregnating Maa Tsuru, Kwei's family treats him like a
Answer
(B)
leper
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This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless.
Kabria's second child is
Answer
(C)
Essie
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This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days.
In Kufi the death of a husband is treated with
Answer
(B)
suspicion
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This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days.
Kufi is a
Answer
(D)
traditional society
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This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.
One of the pictures Bigger sees on the pamphlet given to him by Jan is that of a
Answer
(C)
hammer and a sickle
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This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.
The family that donates to charity is
Answer
(C)
the Daltons
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This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.
You want to know something then you run like a rabbit'
The device used in the line above is
Answer
(D)
simile
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This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.
According to the novel, Southerners deprive the Negroes of
Answer
(C)
good job
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This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Vers and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.
The title of Herbert's The Pulley is an example of
Answer
(D)
symbolism
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This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.
The tone of the persona in Blake's The School Boy is that of
Answer
(A)
fear
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This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.
'awaiting in ambush'
ambush in the line above from Adeoti's Ambush symbolises
Answer
(C)
danger
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This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.
'And by her stood that image of the king in rich apparel, crown and signet-ring'
The image in the lines above in Morris'
The Proud King is
Answer
(D)
visual
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'But such a tide as moving seems asleep. Too full for sound and foam.
When that which drew from out the boundless deep. Turns again home.'
The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above from Tennyson's crossing the Bar is
Answer
(C)
abab
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One of the themes of Awoonor's The Anvil and the Hammer is
Answer
(C)
colonisation
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'And my blood ripples, turns torrent.'
The line above in Okara's Piano and Drums depicts the persona as
Answer
(C)
weak
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According to Peter's The Panic of Growing Older at twenty a man is
Answer
(C)
hopeful
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The dominant literary device in Diop's Vanity is
Answer
(A)
rhetorical question
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Hallowell's The Dining Table can be referred to as a
Answer
(C)
dramatic monologue
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
In a tragic play the device used to reduce tension is known as
Answer
(A)
comic relief
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
An art that is both literary and theatrical is
Answer
(C)
drama
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is
Answer
(A)
pathos
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A literary work that teaches moral is said to be
Answer
(A)
didactic
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The opposite of the part that introduces the main work in literature is known as
Answer
(C)
epilogue
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The continuation of meaning without pause, from one line to the next is
Answer
(C)
enjambment
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A paragraph in prose is equivalent to a
Answer
(B)
stanza in poetry
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
What sustains the interest of a reader in all literature is
Answer
(C)
suspense
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Satire employs the use of
Answer
(B)
irony
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The speech made by a character to himself on stage is
Answer
(C)
soliloquy
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
'Women as a clam, on the sea's crescent I saw your jealous eye quench the sea's Fluorescence, dance on the pulse incessant.'
Wole Soyinka: Night.
The line above suggest that women are
Answer
(A)
covetous
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
Fights by the book of arithmetic
The figure of speech in the line above is
Answer
(D)
innuendo
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
Weep not child, weep not my darling
With these kisses let me remove your tears
The ravening clouds shall no long be victorious
They shall no longer possess the sky....
The speaker of the lines is
Answer
(A)
optimistic
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
'This thing you are doing is too heavy for you, he said.' I went to school only a little, but I have killed many more years in this world than you have.'
G.Okara: The Voice.
It can be inferred from the passage above that the
Answer
(D)
speaker is more experienced
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
Oh incomprehensible God!
Shall my pilot be
My inborn stars to that
Final call to thee...
The literary device used in the first line is
Answer
(A)
apostrophe
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
'I have said too much unto a heart of stone,
And laid my honour too unchary on it',
There's something in me that reproves my fault,
But such a headstrong potent fault it is
That it but mocks reproof.'.
William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
A heart of stone in the lines above is an example of