31 questions. Try each one, then open the answer to check yourself and read the explanation.
In Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days, Lonely Days recounts the life of Yaremi as a
Answer: B (widow)
The novel follows Yaremi after the death of her husband Ajumobi, showing the loneliness and pressures she faces as a widow.
In Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days, Yaremi lives in ________ with her husband, the blacksmith who is commonly referred to as the "Iron Man"
Answer: A (Kufi)
The novel is set in the village of Kufi, where Yaremi lived with Ajumobi, the blacksmith called the 'Iron Man'.
In Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days, Woye learns the benefits of hardwork and diligence from ________
Answer: C (Yaremi)
Woye is Yaremi's grandson; she brings him up and teaches him the value of hard work.
In Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days, Yaremi shows Woye how to protect the chicks from hawks by using a ________ to scare them away
Answer: A (scare crow)
Yaremi teaches Woye to set up a scarecrow so that hawks keep away from the chicks.
In Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days, Death in the opinion of Kufi people is connected to the deeds or misdeeds of certain persons who may be enemies of the
Answer: B (dying individual)
The villagers believe a death is caused by the evil deeds of the dead person's enemies, so they look for those who wished the dying person harm.
A novel which depicts the adventures of the main character who is usually something of a rogue is
Answer: A (picaresque)
A picaresque novel follows the episodic adventures of a likeable rogue (picaro).
The force of the speech above is sustained on
Answer: A (repetition)
The speech keeps hammering the words 'asleep' and 'security'; this repetition is what drives its force.
Questions 11 - 15 are based on Harvest of Corruption, Frank Ogbeche. The text is centred on the corrupt acts of public servants and Madam Hoha in a country called
Answer: A (Jacassa)
The play is set in the fictional country of Jacassa.
In Frank Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption, Chief Haladu has a protruding stomach such that his friends fondly call him
Answer: B (the pregnant chief)
Because of his big belly, Chief Haladu Ade Amadu's friends jokingly call him 'the pregnant chief'.
In Frank Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption, Akpara hotel at Darkin is owned by
Answer: B (Madam Hoha)
Madam Hoha, the corrupt businesswoman, owns the Akpara hotel.
Question 16 is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer. The landlord brings news that two gentlemen have arrived, these gentlemen are
Answer: C (Marlow and Hasting)
At the Three Pigeons the landlord announces Marlow and Hastings, who have lost their way to Mr Hardcastle's house.
Who made the speech above?
Answer: B (Montano)
Montano, governor of Cyprus, speaks of the storm that has battered the sea at the opening of Act 2.
Othello made this speech in
Answer: B (A sea-port in Cyprus)
Othello says this on landing in Cyprus after the storm (Act 2 Scene 1, at the sea-port), as he greets Desdemona and the islanders.
Who were referred as masters?
Answer: C (First musician)
Cassio hires musicians to play under Othello's window; 'masters' is his polite address to them, led by the First Musician.
How many characters were involved in the above exracts?
Answer: A (Desdesmona, Emilia, Cassio)
Desdemona promises to help Cassio, Emilia adds that the matter grieves her husband, and Cassio thanks them: the speakers are Desdemona, Emilia and Cassio.
The speaker is
Answer: B (Othello)
Othello, ordered to Cyprus, asks the Duke to let his 'ancient' (ensign) Iago bring Desdemona after him.
This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son. The protagonist of Native Son is
Answer: C (Bigger Thomas)
The novel follows Bigger Thomas, a young black man in Chicago.
This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless. The novel depicts the attitude of
Answer: C (negligent parents)
Fofo and Baby T end up on the streets of Accra largely because their mother Maa Tsuru and the fathers neglect them.
This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless. Fofo has chosen to sleep in front of a provision store at the Agbogbloshie market in order to avoid the risk of her losing her newly
Answer: B (job)
The key says Fofo sleeps there to protect the new job she has found at the market.
This question is based on Dele Charley's The Blood of a Stranger. The blood of a stranger is about the fraudulent activities of
Answer: B (a white colonialist exploiter)
The play shows a white stranger who cheats the people of Mando to take their diamonds: a colonial exploiter.
This question is based on Dele Charley's The Blood of a Stranger. Maligu is the chief adviser to
Answer: A (King Santigi Mando)
Maligu advises King Santigi of Mando.
This question is based on Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. A Raisin in the sun can be considered a turning point in American art because it addresses so many important issues during the ________ in the United States
Answer: B (1950s)
The play (1959) deals with racial segregation, housing and black aspirations in the 1950s, just before the civil rights era.
This question is based on Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. The setting time of A Raisin in the sun is between
Answer: B (1945 and 1959)
The play is set on Chicago's South Side in the years after the Second World War, up to the 1950s.
This question is based on Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. Mama properly lays Travi's bed for him, Ruth interprets this as
Answer: A (overpampering him)
Ruth complains that Mama spoils Travis by doing his bed for him instead of letting him learn to do it.
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoop to Conquer. A suitor was proposed for Miss Hardcastle by her
Answer: A (father)
Mr Hardcastle arranges for young Marlow, his friend's son, to come and court Kate.
Gbemisola Adeoti's Ambush, "All Peters with petered out desires" The line expresses
Answer: D (pun.)
The line plays on the name 'Peter' and the verb 'peter out' (fade away): a pun.
This question is based on A Pageant of longer Poems by E.W. Parker Longman group, English Romantic Verse; ed by Wright, Penguin books, The Golden Treasury of Longer Poem. Alfred Tennyson's Crossing the Bar The Poem is a Meditation on
Answer: B (death)
Tennyson uses the image of a ship putting out to sea across the sandbar as a calm meditation on his own death.
In Alfred Tennyson's Crossing the Bar: 'And after that the dark!' The 'dark' is a symbol of
Answer: A (death)
Evening bell and 'the dark' follow twilight, the end of the day: they stand for death.
Questions 36 - 38 are based on William Blake's The School Boy. 'The School Boy' depicts
Answer: A (romantic)
Blake's poem prefers the free joys of nature to the dull classroom, a typically Romantic idea.
The setting of William Blake's 'The School Boy' is in
Answer: C (England)
Blake was an English poet and the poem's summer countryside is rural England.
One of the themes in William Blake's 'The School Boy' focuses on
Answer: B (the beauty and splendour of nature)
The boy loves the summer morning, the birds and the fields; the poem celebrates the beauty of nature against the gloom of school.