26 questions. Try each one, then open the answer to check yourself and read the explanation.
In Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, Constance reveals that she knows Marlow's reputation since Marlow is friends with
Answer: A (Mr. Hastings)
Constance Neville knows about Marlow through her lover Hastings, who is Marlow's close friend.
In Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, In Hardcastle's house, Hardcastle and several "awkward servants" enter, the former instructing them on how to appear
Answer: B (sophisticated)
Hardcastle drills his clumsy farm servants to look and behave like polished, well-trained household staff for his guests.
In Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, Marlow and Hastings are in an argument over when to see
Answer: A (Kate)
Marlow is painfully shy with respectable women and keeps putting off the meeting with Kate that his father has arranged.
One of the themes in She Stoops to Conquer is based on
Answer: A (appearance and reality)
Marlow mistakes the house for an inn and Kate for a barmaid: the comedy rests on the gap between appearance and reality.
In Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, When Jeremy, one of the servants enters drunkenly and makes a fool of himself, Marlow refuses to discipline him but instead mocks
Answer: A (Hardcastle's request)
Thinking he is in an inn, Marlow scorns Hardcastle's demand that he control his drunken servant.
Questions 16 - 20 are based on Dele Charley's The Blood of a Stranger. One of the themes is found in the text
Answer: A (greed and ambition)
The stranger's greed for diamonds and Maligu's and Soko's ambition drive the play's events.
The setting of the blood of a stranger is a village called
Answer: B (Mando)
The play is set in the village of Mando, ruled by King Santigi.
In Dele Charley's The Blood of a Stranger, Maligu persuades and blackmails Soko to partake in his dubious
Answer: B (plan)
Maligu draws Soko into his dishonest plan with the white stranger.
In Dele Charley's The Blood of a Stranger, the coming together of the people signifies
Answer: A (oneness of purpose in their deeds and actions.)
When the villagers unite against the stranger and the traitors, it shows they share one purpose.
In Dele Charley's The Blood of a Stranger, in the theme of greed and ambition, the key characters are
Answer: B (whitehead, Maligu and Soko)
The greedy white man (Whitehead) and the ambitious Maligu and Soko are the ones driven by greed.
Question 21 is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days. Yaremi is in a dilemma, not knowing whether she is to shed tears of
Answer: A (gratitude or tears of sorrow)
Yaremi is torn between gratitude (for help and kindness shown to her) and sorrow (for her loss and loneliness).
Question 22 is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days. Woye learns the benefits of hardwork and diligence from
Answer: B (Yaremi)
Yaremi, who brings up her grandson Woye, teaches him the value of hard work.
Question 23 is based on Richard Wright's Native Son. The physical setting of Native Son is
Answer: A (Chicago)
The novel is set in the South Side of Chicago in the 1930s.
Question 24 is based on Richard Wright's Native Son. At the Regal, Bigger looks at the posters while Jack buys the
Answer: B (tickets)
At the Regal cinema Jack goes to buy the tickets while Bigger looks at the film posters.
Bigger arrives at the Dalton's house and wastes no time in his efforts to ascertain the situation with
Answer: B (Mary's corpse)
After killing Mary and burning her body in the furnace, Bigger hurries back to the Daltons' to check whether anything about the corpse has been discovered.
Question 26 is based on Amma Darko's Faceless. In terms of physical location, Faceless is set in
Answer: C (Accra)
The novel is set in Accra, Ghana, around the Agbogbloshie market and the city's streets.
Question 27 is based on Amma Darko's Faceless. With a little coercion, a touch of blackmail, and a bit of deceit, poison is made to meet
Answer: A (Kabria and Sylv Po)
Kabria of MUTE and the radio presenter Sylv Po use pressure and trickery to get a meeting with Poison, the street boss.
Question 28 is based on Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. Walter says that he wants to partner up with his friends.
Answer: A (Willy Harris and Bobo)
Walter plans to open a liquor store with his friends Willy Harris and Bobo.
In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, George says there's no point to such political
Answer: B (mumbo-jumbo)
George Murchison dismisses Beneatha's interest in African heritage and politics as pointless mumbo-jumbo.
In the above excerpt, who is the speaker?
Answer: C (Lago)
Iago pretends to be reluctant to voice his suspicions, admitting his 'nature's plague' is to spy into abuses, so that Othello will press him.
Kofi Awoonor's The Anvil and the Hammer Caught between the anvil and the hammer. The underlined expressions above are examples of
Answer: B (metaphor)
The anvil and the hammer stand for the two forces (African tradition and Western culture) that pound the poet: a metaphor.
In Birago Diop's Vanity, the poem addresses the need for Africans not to neglect their
Answer: A (past or roots)
Diop warns that Africans who abandon their ancestors and roots will cry in vain, unheard.
In Gabriel Okara's Piano and Drums, the major theme revolves around
Answer: A (conflict of culture)
The drums (African tradition) and the piano (Western culture) leave the speaker 'lost in the morning mist': a conflict of cultures.
Questions 36 - 40 are based on A Pageant of longer poems. Alfred Tennyson's Crossing the bar The poem comprises sixteen (16) lines which are divided into
Answer: D (four stanzas.)
Crossing the Bar has four stanzas of four lines each, sixteen lines in all.
George Herbert's The pulley The poem is an artistic or poetic narration of the relationship which exists between
Answer: A (God and man)
In The Pulley, God gives man every blessing except rest, so that restlessness will pull man back to God.
The above is an example of
Answer: A (metaphor)
Good advice is spoken of as 'seed' and its results as a 'crop', an implied comparison: a metaphor.