26 questions. Try each one, then open the answer to check yourself and read the explanation.
In She Stoops to Conquer, young Charles Marlow is extremely shy around
Answer: A (refined young ladies)
Marlow is tongue-tied with well-bred ladies but bold with barmaids and servant girls, which Kate uses to win him.
Questions 3 to 4 are based on Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun". Beneatha's spraying of the apartment seems symbolic of her dissatisfaction with her surroundings, she wants to rid herself and her family of what she later refers to as
Answer: B (acute ghetto it is)
Beneatha jokes that the family suffers from 'acute ghetto-itis', her name for the effects of slum living.
Notably, one of the themes enhances the development of "A Raisin in the Sun"
Answer: A (dreams, hopes and plans)
Every member of the Younger family has a dream (a business, medical school, a house), and the play follows these hopes and plans.
Questions 5 to 6 are based on Frank Ogbeche's "Harvest of Corruption". One of the themes here reveals "Harvest of corruption"
Answer: D (plant corruption, harvest corruption)
The play shows that those who sow corruption eventually reap its consequences: plant corruption, harvest corruption.
In Harvest of Corruption, Ogeyi bothered by what corruption has apparently done to Aloho, her friend decides to go to ________ with her story.
Answer: B (ACP Yakubu and Inspector Inaku)
Ogeyi reports Aloho's case to the police officers, ACP Yakubu and Inspector Inaku.
Questions 7 to 8 are based on Dele Charley's "The Blood of a Stranger". Maligu and soko abduct ________ for whitehead
Answer: B (Wara)
Maligu and Soko kidnap Wara for the white stranger as part of their dirty dealings with him.
In The Blood of a Stranger, Whiteman gets the villagers ________ to subdue their consciousness
Answer: C (drunk)
The stranger plies the villagers with gin so that, drunk, they will not notice he is cheating them.
Questions 9 to 10 are based on Richard Wright's "Native Son". Mary is the only child of
Answer: C (Mr. and Mrs. Dalton)
Mary Dalton is the daughter of the wealthy Mr and Mrs Dalton who hire Bigger.
In Native Son, Peggy leads Bigger into the kitchen and asks him to sit down while she gets the
Answer: B (dinner ready)
On Bigger's first evening at the Daltons', the cook Peggy sits him in the kitchen while she prepares his dinner.
In Lonely Days, a good number of Kufi women secretly envy Yaremi for new
Answer: B (liberty and freedom)
By refusing to be inherited by her late husband's relatives, Yaremi gains a freedom the other widows secretly envy.
Questions 13 to 14 are based on Amma Darko's Faceless. Dina and Kabria hold a confidential talk
Answer: C (Fofo)
Dina and Kabria of MUTE talk privately with Fofo to find out what happened to her sister Baby T.
In Amma Darko's Faceless, ________ investigates Baby T's death
Answer: C (Mute)
MUTE, the NGO where Dina and Kabria work, takes up the investigation into Baby T's death.
The speaker is
Answer: C (Othello)
Othello speaks these lines on arriving in Cyprus, greeting the islanders and his wife.
He made the speech to
Answer: C (Desdemona)
Othello addresses Desdemona as 'Honey' and 'O my sweet', telling her she will be welcome in Cyprus.
The Turks are drown'd, means that
Answer: B (Their opponents were destroyed)
The phrase says the Turks, Venice's enemies, have been destroyed: their fleet sank in the storm.
The setting is
Answer: A (a seaport in Cyprus)
Othello lands at the harbour in Cyprus (Act 2 Scene 1).
"O my sweet implies
Answer: A (happiness)
Othello is overjoyed to be reunited with Desdemona; the endearment shows his happiness.
Questions 21 to 25 are based on selected poems of Africa. The underlined expressions above imply
Answer: C (metaphor)
The boy compares himself to a bird born for joy that cannot sing in a cage: school is pictured as a cage, a metaphor.
The panic of growing older. One of the themes is found in the above poem.
Answer: A (anxiety associated with ageing)
Lenrie Peters' poem expresses the fear and unease that come with growing old.
The above extract is an example of
Answer: A (intimidation and frustration)
Fishers return with no catch and infants shudder while the old snatch at their guts: a picture of fear and frustrated hopes.
Gbanabam Hallowell's "The Dining Table" In the poem, "the land" refers to
Answer: A (land flattened by the power of gunfire)
The poem is about Sierra Leone's civil war; 'the land' is the country flattened by guns.
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the longer poems. Alfred Tennyson's Crossing the Bar. The use of imagery in the poem occurs in two broad ways, which are
Answer: B (Visual and audio)
Tennyson uses sight images (sunset, evening star, the dark) and sound images (one clear call, the evening bell, moaning of the bar).
In the poem "Birches" the narrator looks at the birch trees in the forest and imagines that their bent nature is as a result of a ____ "swinging" on them.
Answer: C (boy)
Frost's speaker likes to think the birches are bent because 'some boy's been swinging them'.
In "the pulley" the reason why God took the decision to withhold rest, the most important of all his gifts, from man is revealed in
Answer: C (third stanza)
In the third stanza God explains that if man had rest too, he would worship the gifts instead of God.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? This sentence implies a
Answer: C (rhetorical question)
The poet asks the question only to begin his praise; he does not expect an answer, so it is a rhetorical question.
Literary principles 31 to 40. An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is
Answer: C (Pathos)
Pathos is the quality that moves the audience to pity or sorrow.