The gurgling drums
Echo the stars
The forest howls
And between the tress
The dark sun appears.
The dominant figure of speech in the above lines from Lenrie Peter’s ‘We Have Come Home’ is
- A. synecdoche
- B. simile
- C. metaphor
- D. personification.
Much of the poetic effect of Birago Diop’s ‘Viaticum’ is gained by the poet’s use of
- A. repetition of symbolic references
- B. rhetorical questions
- C. exaggeration
- D. flowering language.
‘The Vultures built in the shadow of their talons
The blood-stained monument of tutelage.’
The image used in the above lines associates the civilizing missions with
- A. redemption from ignorance
- B. violence and oppression
- C. conversion from paganism
- D. the building of beautiful edifices.
In the poem ‘The Vultures’, David Diop suggests that the Christians missionaries were agents of
- A. agrarian revolution
- B. baptism
- C. justics
- D. colonialism.
Which of the following statement is NOT true of the two ‘Abiku’ poems by J.P Clark and Wole Soyinka?
- A. in each of the two poems, the voice of the Abiku is heard
- B. while the tone of Clark's poem is conciliatory, that of Soyinka is defiant
- C. it would appear that making body marks on the two Abiku has not served the customary purpose of stopping them from coming again
- D. as the two poet portray them, Clark's Abiku can choose to stay or not to stay, but Soyinka's Abiku cannot.
The tone of Wole Soyinka’s ‘Abiku is
- A. arrogant and cynical
- B. mysterious and cunning
- C. understanding but cynical
- D. kind and thoughtful.
From the poem itself, it is easy to tell that J.P. Clark’s Abiku’ is set in
- A. ancient times
- B. a hut in a riverine village
- C. a modern city by the sea
- D. the only mansion in the village.
The impression created of the rain in J.P. Clark’s ‘Night Rain’ is that of
- A. an implacable destructive force
- B. an invading but paradoxically welcome force
- C. a welcome and benevolent force
- D. a sinister and ominous force.
The dominant mood in J.P. Clark’s ‘Night Rain’ is that of
- A. indignation
- B. sorrow
- C. joy
- D. optimism.
In Great Expectations, Pip’s reaction to the news that his fortune had been bestowed on him by Magwitch was
- A. a sense of disillusionment
- B. a feeling of utter shame
- C. anger of disgust
- D. one of excitement.
When Mr. Jagger”s told Joe Gargery to ”bear in mind, that Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better”, what he meant was that
- A. Holdfast was a better dog when compared to Brag
- B. it was better to hold fast on one''s beliefs than to brag about them
- C. a faithful, steadfast dog was better than a dog that gives one cause to bragof its beauty
- D. Joe Gargery should keep his mouth shut.
Joe Gargery is important in Great Expectations mainly because he
- A. is used as a foil to Pip
- B. provides the comedy in the story
- C. helped to bring Pip up by hand
- D. nursed Pip when he was sick in London.
The effect of Pip’s association with the inmates of Satis house was made to make him
- A. realize that he was an orphan
- B. despair of even being a gentle man
- C. aspire to improve his education and make himself less common
- D. love Biddy more ardently.
The protagonist of Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations is
- A. Drummle
- B. Magwitch
- C. Miss Havishman
- D. Pip.
From Madza’s behavior after his return to Kala
it can be deduced that the most important lesson he learned from his sojourn in Kala is that
- A. the secret of happiness is to be found among unsophisticated Africans
- B. every man is free to set his own goals and chart his own course in life
- C. formal education is the ideal way to true wisdom
- D. it is highly rewarding to abide scrupulously by the mores of one's own community.
‘Why the hell can’t some of you caught him for me
Are you going to let a boy make a public laughing stock of his own father?
The speaker of these words is the father of
- A. Bikokolo
- B. Niam
- C. Albert
- D. Medza.
The attitude of the young men of Kala towards their chief can be described as
- A. disdainful
- B. suspicious
- C. disrespectful
- D. courteous.
Medza’s Mission To Kala was important mainly because it
- A. helped him to make acquaintance with his relations in Kala
- B. enabled him to discover Edima
- C. gave him the glory of bringing back Niam's wife
- D. made him discover the realities of the condition of colonized people.
In Mission To Kala, Medza regarded himself as a professional failure because he
- A. he did not seem to have any particular plans forn his life
- B. had a bad reputation at college as a person with bad manners
- C. failed to bring back Niam's wife
- D. failed to understand his father.
In Julius Caesar, one occasion when the misunderstanding of the ordinary people of Rome caused a big problem was
- A. at the capitol when Caesar was given a crown
- B. at the capitol when Brutus and Antony addressed the Romans
- C. at the battlefield when Brutus attacked the army of octavius
- D. in the streets of Rome when Cinna the poet was killed.
‘…He would be crown’d.
How that may change his nature, there’s the question
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder.
And that craves wary walking…’
According to this passage, the crowning of Julius Caesar is
- A. extremely desirable
- B. bound to change Caesar's nature for the better
- C. bound to promote the breeding of adders
- D. something to be approached with great caution