Mtchali’s ‘Nightfall in Soweto’is about one of the following
- A. moonlight play at night
- B. disease that attacks the body
- C. a man fighting against a dangerous animal
- D. an animal attacking a helpless man
- E. a wicked man opressing a helpless man
Kontiki Expedition demonstrates human
- A. rashness
- B. wastefulness
- C. tactlessness
- D. courage
- E. recklessness
In Kossoh Town Boy,the hero presents his father as
- A. tyrannical
- B. despotic
- C. strict
- D. weak
- E. selfish
The Adventure of Tom Sawyer depicts Tom’s
- A. naivety
- B. crass stupidity
- C. ingenuity
- D. hard heartedness
- E. riches
She rose up.She walked up to the table.She stirred up the food once more,and lifted it up from the hot plate.She picked up the second pan and placed it on the red coils.From underneath,in the cardboard box,she collected two enamel plates green with a red band.she wiped them with a white napkin hanging on the line over the bed.she brought out two forks and two spoons.
By using details, the author of the above passage makes the scene
- A. monotonous
- B. unattractive
- C. realistic
- D. bewildering
- E. strange
Modern African Stories
In Alex la Guma’s A Matter of Taste, it is a matter of taste to eat exactly what you want because
- A. that is your own favourite choice
- B. you can afford it
- C. friends can always get it for you
- D. you can always have it as bonus at work
- E. your taste is always available
In ‘Night’,Soyinka describes night as
- A. horrifying
- B. terrifying
- C. protective
- D. soothing
- E. both protective and terrifying
In ‘Telephone Conversation’, the tone of the question ‘You mean-like plain or milk chocolate? is
- A. sarcastic
- B. complimentary
- C. admissive
- D. pleading
- E. commanding
In Birago Diop’s ‘Vanity’,these two lines ‘Sad complaining voices of beggars
Who indeed will hear them without laughter?’contain
- A. an exaggeration
- B. a hyperbole
- C. a paradox
- D. an understatement
- E. an illogicallity
In ‘The Executioner’s Dream’,the first line ‘I dream I saw an eye,a pretty eye’ is
- A. ironical
- B. complimentary
- C. exclamatory
- D. rhetorical
- E. interrogatory
The Concubine
‘Ihuoma,my child’ Wigwe began at last,’really i ought to have come here with more people,but i have avoided formalities because i want to spare myself any embarrassment.Formalities will come later if all goes well’.
Wigwe has come to Ihuoma in order to
- A. marry her clandestinely
- B. gain her consent before coming with relations
- C. persuade her to marry his own son
- D. dissuade her from marrying his own son
- E. inquire about her health
I lingered over the choice
But in the darkness of my doubts
You lifted the lamp of love
And i saw in your face
The road that i should take
In ‘The Mesh’ the poet ‘lingered over the choice’ because
- A. he had quarelled with the lady
- B. he is not yet sure of the lady's love
- C. he is not yet sure of his love for the lady
- D. the lady is not beautiful
- E. the lady is too possesive
A Raisin’ in the Sun
That’s it.There you are.Man say to his woman got me a dream.His woman got me a dream.His woman say:I got to take hold of this here world,baby!And a woman will say:Eat your eggs and go to work….
‘a dream’ in this speech refers to
- A. a liquor store
- B. a prosperous academic career
- C. a political career
- D. a family estate in Clybourne Park
- E. a film industry
Romeo and Juliet
“O’Romeo,Romeo!Wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy father and refuse thy name”
Juliet makes this statement because
- A. she hates Romeo
- B. she hates Romeo's father
- C. she is anxiuos to marry Romeo
- D. she finds the name Romeo unromantic
- E. she wants Romeo to bear a particular name
‘Strange Meeting’ reveals the absurdity of
- A. cowardice
- B. love
- C. hatred
- D. war
- E. friendship
In ‘Wild Grapes’ the narrator says ‘You see me celebrate two birthdays,And give myself out as two different ages because
- A. she is reincarnated
- B. she has first declared a false age
- C. the incident of the poem begins a new chapter in her life
- D. the grapes are wilder than herself
- E. the grapes are older than herself
‘The Choir master’s Burial’ shows man
- A. gratitude
- B. ingratitude
- C. devotion
- D. spineless
- E. courage
‘The Sacrilege’ ends on a note of the complexity of
- A. revenge
- B. ambition
- C. faith
- D. fate
- E. existence
In ‘The Duel’ the line ‘And the swords clicked and scrapped,and the onsets sped’ indicates
- A. the depth of their fatique
- B. the loftiness of their hopes
- C. the abjectness of their fears
- D. the fervour of their prayers
- E. the fierceness of the fight
In ‘The Vultures’ the vultures are
- A. birds of prey
- B. African hunters
- C. colonial masters
- D. vampires
- E. sacrificial animals
Dennis Brutus’ ‘A Troubadour I Traverse’ is on the following
- A. a poem of resistance against oppression
- B. a poem about a lost lover
- C. a poem about a journey of exploration
- D. a poem of satisfaction with one's society
- E. none of the above