This question is based on S.I Osammor’s The Triumph of the Water Lily
‘What is in the past is gone forever. it is only the present that belongs to us! Grasp what chance of happiness you can find at the moment with both hands!
The past in the extract above refers to
- A. Odibe
- B. Norman
- C. Chris
- D. Odili
This question is based on S.I Osammor’s The Triumph of the Water Lily
The preoccupation of the novel is
- A. the life and times of Julian Odili
- B. Norman Obi's courtship of Effua
- C. the benefits of the extended family in Nigeria
- D. the travails and successes of Nkem and Odili
This question is based on S.I Osammor’s The Triumph of the Water Lily
Nkem leaves Odilis house because
- A. she is not afaithful wife
- B. she wants to keep her marriage
- C. of pressure from outsiders
- D. she is barren
This question is based on Abubakar Gimba’s Witnesses to Tears
In the novel, Serah dies of
- A. haemorrhoids
- B. gunshot wounds
- C. asthma
- D. asphyxiation
This question is based on Abubakar Gimba’s Witnesses to Tears.
In the novel, the foil to Lahab’s character is
- A. Tanko
- B. AI-Amin
- C. Sagiir
- D. Saahir
This question is based on Abubakar Gimba’s Witnesses to Tears
‘A repulsive game, nonetheless. Majority participation in a voice doesn’t turn it into a virtue,no matter the social standing of the participants.
The game referred to in the passage above is
- A. graft
- B. gambling
- C. draught
- D. scrambling
This question is based on George Orwell’s Animal Farm
The ideological leader of the revolution in the novel is
- A. Napoleon
- B. Snowball
- C. Old Major
- D. Squealer
This question is based on George Orwell’s Animal Farm
The last major battle in the novel is the battle
- A. of the Cowshed
- B. of the Windmill
- C. to oust Mr.Jones
- D. to overthrow Snowball
This question is based on George Orwell’s Animal Farm
The events in the novel are set in
- A. a possible soccial climate
- B. the distant past
- C. a real human society
- D. an imagined world
This question is based on George Orwell’s Animal Farm
The turn of events in the novel shows that the novelist is
- A. iconoclastic
- B. fatalistic
- C. rhetorical
- D. optimistic
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith’s she Stoops to Conquer.
‘There be two gentlemen in a post-chaise at the door. They have lost their way upon the forest….
The two gentlemen in the excerpt above are
- A. Diggory and Saunders
- B. Marlow and Hastings
- C. Marlow and Hardcastle
- D. Diggory and Hastings
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith’s she Stoops to Conquer.
The epilogue of the play deals with the impermanence of
- A. nature
- B. friendship
- C. womanhood
- D. love
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith’s she Stoops to Conquer.
One of the enriching features of the play is the
- A. matchmaking attempts by Mrs. Hardcastle
- B. manipulation of appearance and reality
- C. use of rural and urban settings
- D. lopsided resolution of conflicts
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith’s she Stoops to Conquer.
Miss Hardcastle is able to ‘conquer’ at the end of the play because of her
- A. indiscretion
- B. beauty
- C. wit
- D. brawn
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith’s she Stoops to Conquer.
The major thematic preoccupation of her play is
- A. the constraintic on parental obligations
- B. the problems of class and English mannerisms
- C. the presentation of a mannerless society
- D. changing the traditional view about English comedy
This question is based on J.P Clark’s The Wives’ Revolt
The ‘Proclamation’ and ‘Reclamation’ segments of the play are performed
- A. as an aside
- B. by a chorus off-stage
- C. on-stage and off-stage
- D. off-stage
This question is based on J.P Clark’s The Wives’ Revolt
‘But those are the hags and witches we wanted out of town.
The expression hags and witches refers to
- A. old unmarried girls and wives retired home from their husbands
- B. the three women who turned into goats
- C. all the women in the play
- D. handmaids, headwives, most favoured wives nursing mothers and pregnant wives
This question is based on J.P Clark’s The Wives’ Revolt
When does the play open and close?
- A. In the afternoon
- B. At midnight
- C. In the morning
- D. In the evening
This question is based on J.P Clark’s The Wives’ Revolt
Imagery in the play is
- A. always sexual and licentious
- B. sometimes sexual but not licentious
- C. always sexual but not licentious
- D. sometimes sexual and licentious
This question is based on J.P Clark’s The Wives’ Revolt
The tradition of Erhuwaren endorses
- A. polyarchy
- B. anarchy
- C. matriarchy
- D. patriarchy
This question is based on General Literary Appreciation
Melodrama is a theatrical performance in which
- A. the serious is treated in a satirical way
- B. subordination of characterization to plot occurs
- C. music and dance predominate
- D. evil triumphs over good