“I’m going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs.
Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can come too.”
Based on the novel Piggy’s, The split in the group of boys occurs with the departure of
- A. Jack
- B. Ralph
- C. Roger
- D. Simon
“The officer, surrounded by these noises,
was moved and a little embarrassed.He turned away
to give them time to pull themselves together, and
waited, allowing his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser
in the distance.”
Based on the novel Piggy’s,in the above passage,Golding focuses on the
- A. sympathy and pity the officer feels for the children
- B. contrast between savagery and order
- C. inability of the children to organize themselves
- D. children's emotional state and its consequences
In the novel “Piggy’s” glasses symbolizes
- A. arrogance
- B. childishness
- C. intellectualism
- D. ignorance
Based on Ayi Kwei Armah’s , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, what is the author’s perception of real change in the novel?
- A. A change of government
- B. A change of rulers
- C. The elimination of opponents
- D. The transformation of society
Based on Ayi Kwei Armah’s , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born,the Chichidodo is hypocritical because it hates
- A. shit
- B. maggots
- C. maggots but eats shit
- D. shit but eats maggots
“Now take this boat business for instance. There is a lot of money to be made in it,but start something, and fools will start shouting slogans at you.”
Based on Ayi Kwei Armah’s , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, who made the above statement?
- A. Amankwa
- B. Oyo
- C. Koomson
- D. Osagyefo
“In Oyo’s eyes there was now real gratitude.
Perhaps for the first time in their married life the
man could believe that she was glad to have him
the way he was.”
Based on Ayi Kwei Armah’s , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, from the above excerpts, Why was Oyo unhappy with her husband?
- A. The man's moral uprightnesswas vindicted at the end
- B. She decided to love the man with all his weaknesses
- C. She realized that money was not everything
- D. The man suddenly came by a lot of money
“….checking the coins against the tickets, he began to count the morning’s take. It was mostly what he expected at this time of the month: small coins, a lot of pesewas,…”
Based on Ayi Kwei Armah’s , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born,what time of the month is being referred to in the above statement from the novel?
- A. Passion week
- B. Passover week
- C. Pay day
- D. Rainy day
Based on Ayi Kwei Armah’s , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, the man is despised by the wife and family because he
- A. does not give them sufficient money to maintain the house
- B. does not capitalize on his education and position to get ahead
- C. does not join Koomson's political party
- D. fails in his campaign to get into the government house
“Keats” “Ode” to a Nightingale” can best be described as
- A. an appreciation of nature
- B. an appreciation of the beauty of the nightingale
- C. a reflection ont he uncertainties of life
- D. a description of nature
“I came down the step with my pitcher
And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he
was at the trough before me.”
These lines from “Snakes” suggests that the
- A. snake was regal and that the persona must wait as a subject
- B. snake was venomous and therefore the poet has to be very wary
- C. snake got there first, in the interest of justice, the poet should wait
- D. poet is terrified of the snake
“…Lying down in the melting snow.
There were times we regretted
The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,
And the silken girls bringing sherbert.”
The emotion evoked in this passage from “Journey of the Magi” is that of
- A. romance
- B. nostalgia
- C. sorrow
- D. fear
The line ‘Ask them why they idle there’ in Kofi Awoonor’s Song of Sorrow’ is a reference to
- A. ancestors
- B. loafers
- C. vagabonds
- D. urchins
- E. ancestors
“Kwarshiorkor”, “grave”, “ravage”, “wreck”, “funeral”, “piles” and fearful”.
These words from J.P. Clarks “The Casualties” connote
- A. war
- B. burial
- C. casualty
- D. disaster
“…Let the greying day grow,
…let the evening horns blow,
…let the melting mountains go…’
The repetition of these lines from Atukwei Okai’s
“Sunset Sonata”
- A. is for emphasis for the main ideas
- B. imbues the poem with lyrical qualities
- C. summarizes the major themes of the poem
- D. shows that the poem is truly a dirge.
The pauper in Richard Ntiru’s poem of that title is
- A. hungry,lonely and sad
- B. lonely, dirty but happy
- C. dirty, hungry and terrified
- D. hungry,lonely and diseased
“…He who sharpened the edge of hearts….”
In Kunene’s To The Soldier “Hero” is
- A. a soldier
- B. a swordsman
- C. a blacksmith
- D. an artist
“The drum is silenced in mid-throb;
the flute is flung away;
and ears strain to master the malediction
of the thunder.”
These lines from “For Christopher Okigbo” shows that the main occurrence in the poem is
- A. incomprehensible
- B. wortheless
- C. accursed
- D. serene
The word which when applied describes the posture of the speaker in “The Fence” is
- A. action
- B. inertia
- C. nostalgia
- D. cowardice
‘…Sir, nose-painting, sleep and urine.Lechery,
Sir, it provokes:it provokes the
desire, but it takes away the performance.’
Based on William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the statement above can best be described as
- A. equivocation
- B. allusion
- C. paradox
- D. monologue
“Thou loosest labour
As easy may’st thou the in trenchant air
With thy keen sword impress,…”
Based on William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the confidence above derives from the fact that
- A. the air cannot be cut
- B. it is futile to cut the air with a sword
- C. no man born of a woman can hurt Macbeth
- D. Macduff wastes his efforts fighting Macbeth