Question 1

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

Football is the only sport on earth that can be considered truly global. Simple and
inexpensive. it is equally likely to be found in a tight Marseille banlieue. an obscure
corner of a Lagos slum, and the heart of a Buenos barrio. Marley's music is similarly
universal...

According to the excerpt above, football is

A. played only in Lagos slums

B. footballers like Marley's music

C. popular but cheap

D. a universal game

Correct answer : D. a universal game

Question 2
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

"The commission has the power to investigate,

to conciliate to hold hearings, to order

reinstatement of a discharged employee, and

to direct the appointment of a qualified applicant"

The rhetorical device used in the excerpt above is

A. Irony
B. Personification
C. Hyperbole
D. Parallelism
Correct Answer: D. Parallelism
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Question 3

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

"Lonely road,

Not a star

Lonely road

Shadows far

And quiet"

Peter Abraham Lonely Road.

The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above is

A. abcdec
B. ababc
C. babac
D. aabbc

Correct Answer: B. ababc

Question 4
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This question is based on Alex Agyei-Agyiri's Unexpected Joy at Dawn.
The setting of the novel is

A. Nigeria and Ghana

B. Nigeria and Togo
C. Ghana and Niger
D. Nigeria and Benin

Correct answer: A. Nigeria and Ghana

Question 5

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This question is based on Alex Agyei-Agyiri's Unexpected Joy at Dawn.

Wachuk in the novel is

A. the cigarette seller

B. Niyi's friend
C. Idem's husband
D. the alcohol seller

Correct answer: C. Idem's husband

Question 6

In Senghor's Black Woman, the dominant literary device is

A. hyperbole
B. personification
C. simile
D. metaphor

Correct answer : D. metaphor

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Question 7

Sesay's "The Song of the Woman of My Land" is a

A. political poem
B. geographical poem
C. social poem
D. panegyric poem

Correct Answer : D. panegyric poem

Question 8
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In Eliot's "Journey of the Magi", "six hands at an open door" is an example of

A. synecdoche
B. irony
C. alliteration
D. metonymy
Correct answer: A. synecdoche

Question 9

Osundare's "The Leader and the Led" is

A. dramatic
B. satiric
C. narrative
D. elegiac

Correct answer: B. satiric

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Question 10

The poet persona in Donne's "The Good Morrow" reflects on

A. spiritual love
B. the immortality of love
C. falling in love
D. love marriage

Correct answer: B. the immortality of love

Question 11
The style of Chibuike's "A Government Driver on His Retirement" is

A. narrative
B. monologic
C. reflective
D. panegyric

Correct answer: A. narrative

Question 12
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"But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams"

The excerpt above from Angelou's "Caged Bird" implies that caged bird

A. will die
B. will be frustrated
C. stands on its grave
D. walks freely to actualise its dream

Correct answer: D. walks freely to actualise its dream

Question 13
Lawrence's "Bats" is a

A. sarcasm
B. satire
C. dramatic dialogue
D. dramatic monologue

Correct answer: D. dramatic monologue

Question 14
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This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel

Lakunle declines to pay bride price on Sidi because he sees tradition as

A. unholy
B. illegal
C. barbaric
D. childish

Correct answer: C. barbaric

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Question 15

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel

Lakunle declines to pay bride price on Sidi because he sees tradition as

A. unholy
B. illegal
C. barbaric
D. childish
Correct answer: C. barbaric

Question 16

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This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

Lakunle's attitude towards payment of bride price is perceived by Sidi as

A. deceitful
B. brilliant
C. generous
D. noble

Correct answer: A. deceitful

Question 17

The question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel

The play is a

A. Comedy
B. Tragi-comedy
C. Farce
D. Melodrama

Correct answer: A. Comedy

Question 18

This question is based on John Osborne's Look Back in Anger

Alison and Jimmy are accommodated during the first month of their marriage by

A. Hugh Tanner
B. Nigel
C. Cliff
D. Webster

Correct answer: A. Hugh Tanner

Question 19

This question is based on John Osbourne's Look Back in Anger

The protagonist in the play is

A. Alison Porter
B. Cliff Lewis
C. Jimmy Porter
D. Colonel Redfern

Correct answer: C. Jimmy Porter

Question 20
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This question is based on John Osbourne's Look Back in Anger

The couple's marital crisis is aggravated by

A. Jimmy
B. Cliff
C. Helena
D. Hugh

Correct answer: C. Helena

Question 21

This question is based on John Osborne's Look Back in Anger.

The reason why Jimmy easily gets along with Cliff is because

A. they both belong to the working class

B. Alison speaks well of Cliff
C. the relatives of Jimmy's mother are rich
D. they are both from affluent backgrounds

Correct answer: A. they both belong to the working class

Question 22
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This question is based on John Osborne's Look Back in Anger.

Jimmy's hamartia is

A. infidelity
B. anger
C. pride
D. jealousy

Correct answer: B. anger

Question 23

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen

Adah is so obsessed with the sleek woman at the hospital because the woman

A. has a doting husband

B. has a high paying job
C. gives birth to twins
D. lives in a mansion

Correct answer: A. has a doting husband

Question 24

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

Adah's disappointment is in the overwhelming

A. freedom for the blacks

B. reception of the blacks
C. recognition given the blacks
D. discrimination against the blacks

Correct answer: D. discrimination against the blacks

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Question 25

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen

The main challenge Adah encounters in England is

A. being a woman
B. financial limitations
C. being half literate
D. being a black person

Correct answer: D. being a black person

Question 26
The question is based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
The structure of the novel is based on two major conflicts of

A. love
B. passion
C. emotion
D. romance

Correct answer: A. love

Question 27
This question is based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
The setting of the novel is

A. Mid 16th century

B. Mid 17th century
C. Mid 18th century
D. Mid 19th century

Correct answer: C. Mid 18th century

Question 28
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This question is based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

The novel can be described as a

A. Renaissance prose
B. Victorian novel
C. French fiction
D. English autobiography

Correct answer: B. Victorian novel

Question 29
This question is based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.
Heathcliff considered himself the second half of

A. Nelly Dean
B. Isabella Winton
C. Hindley Earnshaw
D. Catherine Earnshaw

Correct answer: D. Catherine Earnshaw

Question 30

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The collection of images within a literary work is referred to as

A. imagery
B. images
C. symbolism
D. caesura

Correct answer: A. imagery

Question 31

This question is based on general literary principles

The leading character in a literary work is the

A. protagonist
B. antagonist
C. villain
D. anti-hero

Correct answer: A. protagonist

Question 32

A long narrative poem that relates heroic exploits is

A. panegyric
B. lyric
C. ballad
D. epic

Correct answer: D. epic

Question 33
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A poem of eight rhyming lines is

A. quatrain
B. octave
C. sonnet
D. limerick

Correct answer: B. octave

Question 34

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The events that make up the story is the

A. plot
B. setting
C. atmosphere
D. theme

Correct answer: A. plot

Question 35

This is based on William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream

Who is responsible for causing confusion by mistakenly applying the love potion to the wrong
Athenian in A Midsummer Night's Dream?​
A. Oberon​
B. Titania​
C. Puck​
D. Lysander

Correct answer: C. Puck​

Question 36

This is based on William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream

What is the name of the play performed by the craftsmen in A Midsummer Night's Dream?​
A. The Tragedy of Athens​
B. Pyramus and Thisbe​
C. The Battle of the Fairies​
D. The Lovers' Fate

Correct answer: B. Pyramus and Thisbe

Question 37

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

Which of the following best defines "iambic pentameter"?

A. A line of verse with five stressed syllables

B. A line of verse with ten syllables alternating unstressed and stressed

C. A line of verse with four stressed syllables

D. A line of verse that has no regular pattern

Correct answer: B. A line of verse with ten syllables alternating unstressed and stressed

Question 38

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

In poetry, what term describes a metrical foot consisting of two unstressed

syllables followed by a stressed syllable?

A. Spondee

B. Pyrrhic

C. Anapest

D. Trochee

Correct answer: C. Anapest

Question 39

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

Which type of sonnet consists of three quatrains and a couplet, typically

following the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG?​
A. Petrarchan sonnet​
B. Spenserian sonnet​
C. Shakespearean sonnet​
D. Miltonic sonnet

Correct answer: C. Shakespearean sonnet

Question 40

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

In a Petrarchan sonnet, what is the function of the sestet?​

A. To introduce a problem or argument​
B. To resolve or reflect on the issue raised in the octave​
C. To provide a dramatic monologue​
D. To serve as an epilogue to the poem

Correct answer: B. To resolve or reflect on the issue raised in the octave