Romeo and Juliet
Juliet:O serpent heart,hid with a flowering face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave
Beautiful tyrant:Fiend angelical
Dove-feathered raven!wolfish-ravening lamb
Despised substance of divinest show!
A damned saint,an honorable villain!
(From Romeo and Juliet)
Juliet is referring in the above passage to
- A. Tybalt
- B. Mercutio
- C. Old Capulet
- D. Lady Montague
- E. Romeo
Wole Soyinka’s ‘Telephone Conversation’ is
- A. an attack on the British telephone system
- B. a complaint about the difficulty of getting telephones installed in private houses
- C. about the colour of Soyinka's passport
- D. a humorous but satirical comment on colour prejudice in Britain
- E. about the game of hide and seek
Mr Johnson,by Joyce Cary,is an interesting novel for the reason that
- A. Mr Johnson the cheif character,is a typical African
- B. Mr Rudbeck is a British colonial officer
- C. it is a great love story between Mr Johnson and his wife,Bamu
- D. Mr Johnson is an active character full of drama,song and poetry
- E. all the characters are nice and considerate
All this was a long time ago,i remember
And i would do it again,but set down
This set down
This:were we led all that way for
Birth and Death?There was a Birth,certainly,
We had evidence and no doubt.I had seen birth and death,
But had thought they were different;this birth was
Hard and bitter agony for us,like Death,our death
We returned to our places,these kingdoms,
But no longer at ease here,in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad of another death.
(From T.S Elliott’s ‘Journey Of The Magi’)
The Magi are no longer at ease because
- A. they suffered alot on their way to Bethlehem
- B. they found greater spiritual satisfaction from their journey
- C. death and birth are one and the same thing
- D. their kingdoms can no longer offer them satisfaction
- E. the world has changed for the worse
The casualties referred to in ‘Casualties’ are
- A. people killed during the civil war
- B. those who were wounded and had to endure a lot of pain
- C. those who lost their properties and relations
- D. victims of the Nigerian Civil War,both the living and the dead
- E. none of these
‘And Your laughter like a flame piercing the shadows Has revealed Africa to me beyond the snows of yesterday’.’Shadows’ in the above quotation means
- A. hazy figures which appear before the poet
- B. experiences which have hidden Africa from the poet's view
- C. a period of suffering in the poet's life
- D. unclear ideas which the poet has
- E. the ghosts of the dead
In Wole Soyinka’s poem,’I Think It Rains’ rain symbolizes
- A. the rise of sudden cloud from ashes
- B. loosening of parched tongues from the mouth
- C. inconveniences
- D. relief,and a feeling of goodness
- E. none of these
Achebe’s language and style in No Longer At Ease is remarkable
- A. for its short and simple sentences
- B. for its day-to-day expressions
- C. for its reflection of the speech of the ordinary man
- D. for using the speech style of most African communities
- E. for reflecting the speech patterns of the different segments of the Nigerian society
The old and new values in No Longer At Ease are represented by
- A. The European Club and Joseph
- B. Obi and Clara
- C. The Umuofia Progressive Union and Obi
- D. Mr Green and Miss Williamson
- E. none of the above
Ihuoma cannot be a successful wife in The Concubine because
- A. she is troublesome and cruel
- B. the sea god,her spirit husband has put a curse on her
- C. nobody wishes to marry her in the village
- D. she is too old to bear children
- E. she is a widow
In Twelfth Night
‘If music be the food of love,play on
Give me excess of it,that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and die’
was spoken by
- A. Curio
- B. Valentine
- C. Orsino
- D. Antonio
- E. Sir Andrew
As a character,Ozidi,in J.P Clark’s play of that name,is ruined by
- A. too great interest in women
- B. too much love of peace
- C. excessive belief in his own powers
- D. too great dependence on his grand-mother
- E. the wickedness of his enemies
One of the statements is true of the novel:
- A. it is an exact reproduction of historical events
- B. characters are unimportant in it
- C. it is always the story of the Author's life
- D. it deals with human experience
- E. it does not make use of imagery
One of the following is a narrative technique in the novel
- A. character
- B. interesting story
- C. flashback
- D. logical conclusion
- E. social relevance
A good poem must
- A. be about love
- B. have a regular rythm
- C. rhyme
- D. be difficult to understand
- E. none of the above
Dialogue is important in drama because
- A. it always makes the audience laugh
- B. it is like a conversation
- C. it reveals the minds of the characters
- D. it makes the play last longer on the stage
- E. it makes the characters honest
One of the peculiar features of drama in general is
- A. humour
- B. satire
- C. sarcasm
- D. action
- E. exposition
One of the following terms applies to the discussion of both tragedy and comedy:
- A. climax
- B. happy ending
- C. tragic hero
- D. alliteration
- E. stanza
‘That year the harvest was sad,like a funeral,and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams.One man tied his cloth to a tree branch and hanged himself’. The mood conveyed here is one of
- A. excitement
- B. sadness
- C. joy
- D. triumph
- E. elation
An image in poetry usually gives a clue to one of the following:
- A. rhyme
- B. assonance
- C. paradox
- D. theme
- E. refrain
Point out the odd item:
- A. Raisin in the sun
- B. Twelfth Night
- C. Ozidi
- D. The Concubine
- E. Romeo and Juliet