Achebe’s language and style in No Longer At Ease is remarkable
- A. for its short and simple sentences
- B. for its day-to-day expressions
- C. for its reflection of the speech of the ordinary man
- D. for using the speech style of most African communities
- E. for reflecting the speech patterns of the different segments of the Nigerian society
The old and new values in No Longer At Ease are represented by
- A. The European Club and Joseph
- B. Obi and Clara
- C. The Umuofia Progressive Union and Obi
- D. Mr Green and Miss Williamson
- E. none of the above
Ihuoma cannot be a successful wife in The Concubine because
- A. she is troublesome and cruel
- B. the sea god,her spirit husband has put a curse on her
- C. nobody wishes to marry her in the village
- D. she is too old to bear children
- E. she is a widow
In Twelfth Night
‘If music be the food of love,play on
Give me excess of it,that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and die’
was spoken by
- A. Curio
- B. Valentine
- C. Orsino
- D. Antonio
- E. Sir Andrew
As a character,Ozidi,in J.P Clark’s play of that name,is ruined by
- A. too great interest in women
- B. too much love of peace
- C. excessive belief in his own powers
- D. too great dependence on his grand-mother
- E. the wickedness of his enemies
One of the statements is true of the novel:
- A. it is an exact reproduction of historical events
- B. characters are unimportant in it
- C. it is always the story of the Author's life
- D. it deals with human experience
- E. it does not make use of imagery
One of the following is a narrative technique in the novel
- A. character
- B. interesting story
- C. flashback
- D. logical conclusion
- E. social relevance
A good poem must
- A. be about love
- B. have a regular rythm
- C. rhyme
- D. be difficult to understand
- E. none of the above
Dialogue is important in drama because
- A. it always makes the audience laugh
- B. it is like a conversation
- C. it reveals the minds of the characters
- D. it makes the play last longer on the stage
- E. it makes the characters honest
One of the peculiar features of drama in general is
- A. humour
- B. satire
- C. sarcasm
- D. action
- E. exposition
One of the following terms applies to the discussion of both tragedy and comedy:
- A. climax
- B. happy ending
- C. tragic hero
- D. alliteration
- E. stanza
‘That year the harvest was sad,like a funeral,and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams.One man tied his cloth to a tree branch and hanged himself’. The mood conveyed here is one of
- A. excitement
- B. sadness
- C. joy
- D. triumph
- E. elation
An image in poetry usually gives a clue to one of the following:
- A. rhyme
- B. assonance
- C. paradox
- D. theme
- E. refrain
Point out the odd item:
- A. Raisin in the sun
- B. Twelfth Night
- C. Ozidi
- D. The Concubine
- E. Romeo and Juliet
Another shoal of cars swam past.One in particular caught his eye,a long slender thing,elegant as a swallow,all gleaming blue and silver,a thousand guineas it would have cost,he tought.
In the first sentence,cars are described in terms of
- A. birds
- B. ants
- C. fish
- D. lamp-posts
- E. pretty girls
The Comstocks belonged to the most dismal of all classes,the middle-middle class,the landless gentry.In their miserable poverty they had not even the snobbish consolation of regarding themselves as an ‘old’ family fallen on evil days…..This writer’s tone is
- A. melancholic
- B. matter-of-fact
- C. bitterly humorous
- D. sympathetic
- E. sad
You cannot know
And should not bother;
Tide and market come and go
And so shall your mother.
In this verse the poet uses
- A. alternate rhymes
- B. monorhyme
- C. couplets
- D. triplets
- E. blank verses
If we describe Kossoh Town Boy as an autobiography,we mean that it is
- A. a historical novel
- B. a piece of writing telling us about the life of its author
- C. a short story
- D. a narrative tale
- E. a book well written
In ‘The Flight to Australia’ the following line occurs:’Tier upon tier it towered,the terrible Apennines’ The figure of speech used in this line is known as
- A. alliteration
- B. litotes
- C. exaggeration
- D. parody
- E. metonym
In ‘The Castle’ Muir writes:Our only enemy was gold’! This is true because
- A. the castle was made of gold
- B. all the men swallowed gold
- C. there was no gold to pay for arms
- D. the captain stole all available gold
- E. gold was the cause of their betrayal
In T.S Elliot’s ‘Journey of the Magi’ the old choirmaster could not be buried in the manner he wished because he unfortunately died
- A. in summer
- B. in spring
- C. at night
- D. in winter
- E. in the chapel