Use the quotation below to answer this question.
Basha: You dumb skull of a bone head…you will face court martial for this. You look everywhere? You search inside toilet bowl?
Wole Soyinka: King Baabu.
The person being addressed above is a
- A. soldier
- B. lawyer
- C. student
- D. domestic servant
This question is based on J.C. De Graft’s Sons and Daughters.
Where does the play take place?
- A. In Ofosu's place
- B. On the street
- C. In George's place
- D. In aunt's house
This question is based on J.C. De Graft’s Sons and Daughters.
The traditional order in the play is represented by
- A. Mrs. B
- B. Aunt
- C. Hannah
- D. Maanan
This question is based on J.C. De Graft’s Sons and Daughters.
Maanan expresses dislike for lawyer B because of
- A. the betrayal of his wife's trust
- B. the betrayal of her father's trust
- C. his condemnation of her choice of career
- D. his recent advances towards her
This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
Romeo is banished from Mantua because he
- A. kills Tybalt in a street's duel
- B. marries Juliet without parental consent
- C. attends Capulet's party uninvited
- D. attempts to kill Paris, his rival
This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
The spatial setting of the play is
- A. Athens
- B. Venice
- C. Padua
- D. Verona
This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
‘O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!’
The statement above refers to
- A. Juliet
- B. Romeo
- C. Benvoli
- D. Tybalt
This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
The play is mostly written in
- A. metres
- B. foot
- C. blank verse
- D. free verse
As the dancers move through paths strewn with glass chips, the images in Adeoti’s Naked Soles change from
- A. pain to grief
- B. sorrow to joy
- C. joy to excitement
- D. inaction to action
This question is based on George Orwell’s Nighteen Eighty-four.
The party seeks power for
- A. its own sake
- B. its members
- C. peoples' sake
- D. the nation
This question is based on George Orwell’s Nighteen Eighty-four.
How did Winston start his rebellion against the state?
- A. By engaging in anti-party activities
- B. When He spied on the party
- C. When He started a secret affair
- D. By keeping a private diary
This question is based on George Orwell’s Nighteen Eighty-four.
The subject matter of the novel is
- A. totalitarian dictatorship
- B. retributive justice
- C. class segregation
- D. exploitation and cruelty
This question is based on George Orwell’s Nighteen Eighty-four.
The Ministry of Peace is concerned with making
- A. weapons
- B. instruments
- C. wars
- D. reconciliation
Rubadiri’s An African Thunderstorm, says that during thunderstorm in the village
- A. children are delighted while women move in and out
- B. children play in the rain
- C. both women and children are delighted
- D. women cook their food.
This question is based on Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood.
The constant companion of Nnaife’s family are
- A. sickness and joblessness
- B. togetherness and happiness
- C. disagreement and humiliation
- D. poverty and hunger
This question is based on Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood.
The medicine man links the lump discovered on Nnu Ego at birth, to the
- A. ill-luck and tragic events attributed to a predestined fate
- B. possession of physical admirable qualities that make her an epitome of perfection
- C. wound inflicted on the slave woman buried with Agbadi's wife
- D. coming back of the Agunwa to the society to live again
This question is based on Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood.
In the novel, the society puts high value on
- A. egalitarianism
- B. male ascendency
- C. gender equity
- D. procreation
This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono’s The Old Man and the Medal
In the novel, the colonialists treat the Africans with
- A. indifference
- B. honour
- C. disdain
- D. kid gloves
This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono’s The Old Man and the Medal
Meka can best be described as
- A. an impulsive old man
- B. an old religious bigot
- C. an egocentric old man
- D. a simple hearted old man
This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono’s The Old Man and the Medal
The disagreement betweeen Mvondo and Nti centres on the latter’s claim to have
- A. assisted Meka in getting the medal
- B. been in a whiteman's office
- C. eaten more than his share of the food
- D. eaten the entire entrails of the sheep
This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.
‘I simply don’t understand what’s the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ……
The speaker above is referring to
- A. Hannah and George
- B. Aaron and Maanan
- C. Lawyer B and Mrs. B
- D. Fosuwa and Maidservant