This question is based on WUTHERING HEIGHT.
What destination does the young Catherine have in mind when she leaves Thrushcross Grange for the first time?
- A. Wuthering Heights
- B. The nearby village
- C. The fairy caves at Penistone Crags
- D. London, where her cousin Linton lives
This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
Which character may be an allegory of Nigeria itself?
- A. Baroka
- B. Sadiku
- C. lakunle
- D. Sidi
This question is based on WUTHERING HEIGHT.
Which of the following characters dies last?
- A. Catherine
- B. Heathcliff
- C. Linton
- D. Mr. Linton
This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
The opening act in the plays takes place at______
- A. the village market
- B. the roadside to the farm
- C. the baale's room
- D. by the village stream
This question is based on SECOND CLASS CITIZEN.
Who is Mr Cole?
- A. a black tenant at the first apartment at England
- B. Adah's colleague at the Consulate
- C. Adah's nephew she's forced to live with after Pa's death
- D. Adah's elementary school teacher
This question is based on WUTHERING HEIGHT.
What gift did Mr. Earnshaw promise to bring Nelly Dean from Liverpool?
- A. A bridle for her horse
- B. A fiddle
- C. Fruit
- D. A set of paints
PROSE: AFRICAN: UNEXPECTED JOY AT DAWN
What distinguishes Nii Tackie from every other Ghanaian?
- A. His accent
- B. His face
- C. His tribal mark
- D. His skin
This question is based on LOOK BACK IN ANGER.
Who was the first-person Alison informed about her pregnancy?
- A. her parents
- B. Jimmy
- C. Helena
- D. Cliff
This question is based on UNEXPECTED JOY AT DAWN.
How did Mama Orojo meet Tom Monday.
- A. she met him on her trip to Ghana
- B. she met him on an evangelism trip
- C. she met him during the religious riot
- D. she met him at the restaurant
This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
In the play, the jewel of Ilujinle is____
- A. Sadiku
- B. Baroka
- C. Lakunle
- D. Sidi
This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
Sidi insisted on the payment of her bride-price because it indicates that she_____
- A. is a virgin
- B. has a wealthy family
- C. is of marriageable age
- D. is free from her family
This question is based on UNEXPECTED JOY AT DAWN.
Which of these characters is at the center of the impact of the xenophobic attack in the novel?
- A. Nii Tackie
- B. Ezla
- C. Massa
- D. Aaron Tsuru
This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
The use of language in the play is written in both___ and ___ forms.
- A. vague and prosaic.
- B. prosaic and poetic.
- C. archaic and vague.
- D. ambiguous and lyrical
This question is based on LOOK BACK IN ANGER.
What were the other businesses Jimmy porter had tried apart from the sweet stall business?
- A. farming, teaching and advertising
- B. Teaching, painting and trumpeting
- C. Journalism, faming and teaching.
- D. Journalism, advertising, and vacuum cleaning
This question is based on SECOND CLASS CITIZEN.
The novel is set after which major war?
- A. First World War (1914-1918)
- B. Aba Women Riot (1929)
- C. Second World War (1939-1945)
- D. The Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970)
A novel that features spiritual apparitions as major character is
- A. Epistolary
- B. Historical
- C. Sociological
- D. Gothic
This question is based on A GOVERNMENT DRIVER ON HIS RETIREMENT.
“Many years on wheels” The reference to “wheels” exemplifies the use of ___ in the poem.
- A. climax
- B. personification
- C. metonymy
- D. synecdoche
A long story narrating a series of complicated events is called a
- A. harrangue
- B. discourse
- C. monologue
- D. saga
The moment of recognition of truth when ignorance gives way to knowledge is known as
- A. Anamnesis
- B. Anagnorisis
- C. Hamartia
- D. Hubris
This question is based on THE GOOD MORROW.
Use this excerpt to answer question
“If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.”
The excerpt above evokes the use of ____
- A. Olfactory imagery
- B. Tactile
- C. Auditory imagery
- D. Visual imagery
‘Senhor Jose got cold during the night. After having uttered those redundant useless words, here she is, he wasn’t sure what else he should do. It was true that, after long and arduous labours, he had managed, at last, to find the unknown woman, or rather, the place where she lay, a good six feet beneath an earth that still sustained him’
Jose Saramago: All the Names
What happens to the unknown woman in the passage above?
- A. She falls asleep
- B. She is dead
- C. She is awake
- D. She runs away