This question is based on Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter
”…The sugar-daddy of the boutique dresses wants to marry Binetou. Just imagine…”’
What is ironical about this statement ?
- A. The speaker is Binetou's friend
- B. The sugar-daddy is the speaker's husband
- C. Binetou is the speaker's rival
- D. The sugar-daddy is the speaker's father
This question is based on Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter
‘If you can procreate without loving, merely to satisfy the pride of your declining mother, then I’ find you despicable…’
Whose words are these?
- A. Aissatou
- B. Ramatoulaye
- C. Young Nabou
- D. Jacqueline
This question is based on Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter
”A wife must understand once and for all, and must forgive; she must not worry herself about ‘betrayals of the flesh. The important thing is what there is in the heart.”
These words are spoken by
- A. Tamsir in breaking the news of Modou's second marriage to Ramatoulaye
- B. Modou in support of his relationship with Binetou
- C. Aunty Nabou in trying to convince Mawdo to marry her niece
- D. Mawdo Ba to justify his marrying Nabou out of a sense of duty
This question is based on Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter
‘You forget that I have a heart, a mind, that I am not an object to be passed from hand to hand.
You don’t know what marriage means to me….’These words by Ramatoulaye are addressed to
- A. Mawdo
- B. her mother-in-law
- C. Daouda Dieng
- D. Tamsir
This question is based on Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter
‘….One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs knock one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end.’
On what occasion do these lines occur in the novel?
- A. At the burial ceremony of Ramatoulaye's husband
- B. After the confession of Ramatoulaye's daughter, that she was pregnant
- C. When Ramatoulaye was learning to drive the Flat 125
- D. When Ramatoulaye saw her mother sick in bed
This question is based on Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God
”….that no man however great was greater than his people; that no one ever won judgement against his clan.”
Achebe’s conclusion was that
- A. the individual should submit his will to thatof the clan
- B. very few people have the ability to dictate to their clan
- C. a man should impose his judgement on the clan if he is strong enough to do so
- D. the clan generally ensures that the individual is reduced to weakness
This question is based on Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God
‘The crisis over the New Yam Feast arose because
- A. Ezeulu refused to eat the sacred yams at the appropriate time
- B. the harvest season came too early
- C. the Christians in Umuaro diverted their own yams to their church
- D. Ezeulu's absence from Umuaro had prevented him from eating the sacred yams at the right time
This question is based on Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God
”’ It is not bravery for a man to beat his wife.
I know a man and his wife must quarrel; there is no abomination in that… No, you may quarrel; but let it not end in fighting…”
These words concern
- A. Obika and his mother
- B. Obika and Okuata
- C. Akueke and her husband
- D. all the young men in the village
This question is based on Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God
The statement ‘the new religion was like a leper’ means that
- A. the new religion, if welcomed, will overshadow the traditional religions
- B. the Europeans who brought the new religion were lepers
- C. all those who join the new religion would become lepers
- D. religion invites diseases
This question is based on Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God
‘Thereafter, any yam harvest in the fields was harvested in the name of the son’
The ‘son’ referred to in the above quotation is
- A. Ezeulu's dead son, Obika
- B. Ezeulu's Christian son, Oduche
- C. Mr. Good Country's son
- D. Jesus Christ
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
In the poem ‘The Prodigals’ the line ‘their heads are claimed by clouds’ means that the military leaders
- A. travel a lot by air
- B. are haughty
- C. love sunny weather
- D. dislike clouds
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
The technique Kwesi Brew employs to portray the nightmarish image in his poem ‘The Executioner’s Dream’ is the description of the
- A. childhood fun
- B. only set in a crown of thorns
- C. gory details
- D. wicked sappor
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
‘Withering, burn, ghost, a scatter, dusty, half-bare
The above combination of words from Kwesi Brew’s
‘The Dry Season’ thematically suggests
- A. destruction
- B. confusion
- C. desolation
- D. death
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
In the poem ‘Night’ Neto suggests that the oppressed
- A. do not believe in victory
- B. are never willing to fight for their rights
- C. are no longer willing to fight for their right
- D. are determined to give meaning to their life
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
‘You just wait, I’ll tell you more
But let me first sell my tomatoes’.
These two lines from Theo Luzuka’s ‘The Motoka’
reveal the poet’s true state of
- A. delight
- B. reality
- C. fear
- D. dream
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
‘Idoto’ in Okigbo’s ‘The Passage’ is the name of
- A. the poet's mother
- B. the poet's village
- C. a village shrine
- D. a village stream
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
The atmosphere of Birago Diop’s ‘Vanity’ is dominated by
- A. joy
- B. hate
- C. love
- D. sadness
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
The poet’s mood in Gabriel Okara’s ‘The Fisherman’s invocation’ is characterized by
- A. dissatisfaction
- B. anxiety
- C. contentment
- D. self-doubt
This question is based on George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man.
In Raina’s view, if one is incapable of gratitude, he is incapable of any noble
- A. attitude
- B. ideas
- C. sentiment
- D. prowess
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
In J.P. Clark’s ‘Streamside Exchange’, the bird’s reply concerns
- A. the coming of the tide
- B. the uncertainty of the future
- C. market days
- D. mother's visit to the market
This question is based on George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man.
Catherine’s natural looks portray her as a
- A. sophisticated lady
- B. soldier's wife
- C. mountain farmer's wife
- D. business woman