In ‘Ode to a nightingale’ Keats celebrates the beauty of
- A. a particular immortal Bird
- B. all nightingales
- C. artistic expression
- D. philosophical statement
- E. the nightingale Ruth heard
‘Fast fading violets covered up in leaves
And mid May’s eldest child
The coming must-rose full of dewy wine
The murmurous haunt of files on summer eves’.
(‘Ode to a nightingale’)
The poetic beauty of the last line owes to the use of
- A. smile
- B. onomatopeia
- C. metaphor
- D. archaism
- E. metonymy
‘I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have i seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, council, governments’
These line fairly represent the attitude of Ulysses’ life. This attitude may be described as
- A. complaining continually about life
- B. unwillingness to agree and work with others.
- C. ceaseless labour and search for challenges
- D. dislike of one's country or home
- E. roaming and idling.
Stars hide your fires;
let no light see my black and deep desires
They eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eyes fears, when it is done to see’
In these lines Shakespare uses
- A. hyperbole
- B. metonymy
- C. onomatopoeia
- D. simile
- E. apostophe
Kongi’s harvest is
- A. a political drama
- B. social comedy
- C. a play about natural rulers
- D. a historical tragedy
- E. a domestic comedy.
Nani’s sternness and frequent use of the cane
- A. was responsible for his transfers
- B. exacted obedience from his wife
- C. fiiled his children with fear and pain
- D. gave him a very good reputation
- E. made his teacher rebel against him
Kongi wants to eat the New Yam during the harvest Festival because
- A. he was very hungry after his period of fasting
- B. the Yam won the agriculture contest
- C. it belonged to the Royal House
- D. it symbolized the acqusition of Power
- E. he wanted to reconcile with Oba Danlola
In Mine Boy Peter Abrahams is of the view that apartheid would cease to exist in South Africa if
- A. the blacks forced out the whites
- B. the whites packed their bags and went away peacefully
- C. the whites became more generous and gentle to the blacks
- D. black and whites stopped regarding people primarily by the colour of the skin
- E. unequal treatment of the black and white at the mines was discontinued.
The doctors looked at chris johannes.
They were both dead. They kept the place up with their bodies so that we could get out!’a mine boy cried and begin to sob (Mine Boy).
The death of Chris and Johannes is symbolic because
- A. it shows how black and white can and ought to make sacrifies for matual benefit
- B. it lead to the arrest of the miners by the police
- C. it shows the bad conditions of the mines
- D. it ios the result of panic
- E. it keeps xuma out of trouble.
Which of the characters in Abraham’s Mine Boy is notorious for playing with a Knife?
- A. xuma
- B. Leah
- C. Ma plank
- D. Dladia
- E. Joseph.
Eliza is Mine Boy is representative of
- A. European female sophistication
- B. the disaster of an African wishing to be European
- C. moral decadence in South African where women smoke
- D. the hardship of a black female teacher
- E. the loneliness of a female teacher in Malay Camp
‘Thou losest labour
As easy mayst thou the interenchant air with kneel sword impress as make me bleed’
Macbeth contempt from Macduff’s effort in this battle scene arises from
- A. the quality of his military uniform
- B. the fact that he cannot be hurt by mortals
- C. the fact that the witches has given him charms
- D. the fact that the witches have made him think no mortal can hurt him
- E. the fact that he is as light as Air.
To be thus is nothing but to be safely thus our fear in Banqo stick deep. soon after these words, macbeth is dramatically ‘attended’by
- A. Banqo and his son
- B. two murderers
- C. lady Macbeth
- D. lady Macbeth and a servant
- E. Banqo
The animal which Gerald Durrel found difficult to catch was
- A. the water snake
- B. old plop
- C. alacko
- D. geronimo
- E. achilles.
In As You Like It Orland’s defeat of charles, the Duke’s wrestler made his brother Oliver
- A. decide to reconcile with him
- B. plan to kill him
- C. hate him more
- D. ask the servant, Adam to drive him away
- E. give him his deserved inheritance.
Orlando addressed the banished duke and his men roughly because
- A. he was hungry
- B. he was greedy
- C. he was afraid
- D. he thought they were wild
- E. they refuse to give him food.
Ananse knew who loved his daughter most through
- A. the quality of gifts they sent to him
- B. the eagerness which each showed to marry her
- C. thier reactions to the news of Anansewa's death
- D. the words of thier messengers
- E. the letters the chief wrote to them.
In the novel The Narrow Parth because Kofi’s father was a headmaster, kofi
- A. wore shoe to school
- B. started school early
- C. went to school when he liked
- D. wasn rude to his teachers
- E. was very popular with the school children
Kofi had to live under a master and go to school in keta because
- A. his mothr lived in keta
- B. his father was transfer ti abor
- C. he lost his school fees to gamblers
- D. his father's school was a junior school
- E. his father wanted to punish him.
The night has been unruly. Where we lay. Our chimneys were blown down; and as they say lamentings heard i’th’air; strange screams of death And prophesying with accents terrible. Of dire combustion and confessed events. New hatch’d to the woeful time. The obscure bird Clamour’d the livelong night: some say the earth was feverous and did shake. This is the night .
- A. when Banquo was murdered
- B. before macbeth was killed
- C. when the duncan and his men were fighting the enemy
- D. when macbeth went to see the witches
- E. when duncan was murdered.
In zambia shall be free Kaunda describes his father as
- A. erratic
- B. a political agitator
- C. wicked
- D. unlucky
- E. strict.