The attitude of the young men of Kala towards their chief can be described as
- A. disdainful
- B. suspicious
- C. disrespectful
- D. courteous.
Medza’s Mission To Kala was important mainly because it
- A. helped him to make acquaintance with his relations in Kala
- B. enabled him to discover Edima
- C. gave him the glory of bringing back Niam's wife
- D. made him discover the realities of the condition of colonized people.
In Mission To Kala, Medza regarded himself as a professional failure because he
- A. he did not seem to have any particular plans forn his life
- B. had a bad reputation at college as a person with bad manners
- C. failed to bring back Niam's wife
- D. failed to understand his father.
In Julius Caesar, one occasion when the misunderstanding of the ordinary people of Rome caused a big problem was
- A. at the capitol when Caesar was given a crown
- B. at the capitol when Brutus and Antony addressed the Romans
- C. at the battlefield when Brutus attacked the army of octavius
- D. in the streets of Rome when Cinna the poet was killed.
‘…He would be crown’d.
How that may change his nature, there’s the question
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder.
And that craves wary walking…’
According to this passage, the crowning of Julius Caesar is
- A. extremely desirable
- B. bound to change Caesar's nature for the better
- C. bound to promote the breeding of adders
- D. something to be approached with great caution
Shakespeare based the story of Julius Caesar on
- A. actual historical records
- B. plutarch's lives
- C. Greek mythology
- D. John Bunyan's lives.
The specific case cited by Antony in his funeral oration to show that Caesar was not as ambitious as Brutus made him out to be, was that Caesar had
- A. refused to take ransom after his victory
- B. pardoned all his captives
- C. thrice refused the crown during theb feast of Luperical
- D. been a friend of the senators.
The treatment meted out to Cinna the poet in Julius Caesar shows
- A. that roman soldiers despised poets generally
- B. Shakespeare's use of mistaken identity for comic effect in the play
- C. the misfortune of Roman poets
- D. the spontaneous reaction of the plebians after assassination of Caesar.
Odewale shifts the blame for his tragedy from the gods to himself and claims that his tragedy is a result of his own weakness. The weakness he claims is love of
- A. power
- B. adventure
- C. his tribe
- D. divination.
”When the frog in front falls in a pit, others behind takes caution… When crocodiles eat their own eggs, what will they will they not do to the flesh of a frog?”
In the context of The Gods Are Not To Blame, the person who made this statement is alleging that king Adetusa
- A. died falling in to a pit
- B. fell victim to man eating crocodiles
- C. was killed by the people of Kutuje
- D. was killed by the Ijekun people.
Baba Fakunle: How much did he give you boy?
Boy: Ten cowries, Baba.
Baba Fakunle: Hand him back nine.
The order to return nine cowries was given by Baba Fakunle because he
- A. wanted to spit the King by taking only one cowrie
- B. felt insulted that he was given only ten cowries
- C. did not want to meddle with leprous monry given with bloody hands
- D. wanted to emphasize that the messanger of Olodumare takes only one cowrie.
‘…the toad likes water but not when the water is boiling’. King Odewale in the Gods Are Not To Blame uses this proverb to explain why he
- A. he exiled himself from the home of his supposed parents.
- B. exiled Aderopo from his presence
- C. treated Baba Fakunle with disrespect
- D. no longer likes the land of Kutuje.
The oracle warns us that we we have left our pot unwatched, and our food now burns.’
This statement in The Gods Are Not To Blame refers to
- A. the killing of Adetusa
- B. the crime of incest committed by King Odewale
- C. Aderopo's quarrel with King Odewale
- D. the banishment of Aderopo.
‘How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over?’In this passage, lofty scene refers to
- A. a great event
- B. the meeting of the conspirators
- C. the funeral of Caesar
- D. a scene acted on a raised platform
- E. the assassination of Caesar.
As a literary from the short story is most closely related to
- A. poetry
- B. the discourse
- C. tragedy
- D. the novel
- E. drama.
Brenda suddenly stiffened in her chair and half turned her ear to the window, silent like an animal waiting to spring, an alertness that transformed her face to temporary ugliness. Arthur noticed it,
‘He’s coming’, she said ‘i heard the gate open.’
In this short passage, the writer succeeds in creating
- A. anti-climax
- B. pity
- C. comic relief
- D. suspense
- E. characters.
In poetry, the elegiac mood typically attends the occasion or experience of
- A. triumph and fulfilment
- B. birth and growth
- C. death and decay
- D. joy and ecstacy
- E. illumination and discovery.
‘The pen is mightier than the sword’ is an example of
- A. metonymy
- B. antonomasia
- C. comparison
- D. synecdoche
- E. paradox.
A deliberate use of exaggeration for humour or emphasis is known as
- A. exclamation
- B. litotes
- C. metonymy
- D. hyperbole
- E. antonym.
At the end of that week I set off for Caxley. It was a grey day, with the downs covered in thick mist. The trees dripped sadly along the road to the market town, and the wet pavements were even more depressing.
The setting is best described as
- A. bracing
- B. dismal
- C. exhilarating
- D. delightful
- E. pleasant.
A trade, Sir, that, i hope, i may use with a safe conscience; which is, indeed, Sir, a mender of bad soles.
The passage is referring to a
- A. religious preacher who saves sinful souls
- B. physician who cures diseases of the sole
- C. workman who repears shoes
- D. trader who prevents bad sales
- E. trader who cheats customers during sales.