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This question i based on William Shakespeare''s Macbeth.

''This supernatural soliciting

Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill,

Why hath it given me earnest of success,...

What does the phrase ''earnest of success'' refer to?

  • A. Macbeth becoming thane of Cawdor
  • B. Banquo''s children becoming future kings
  • C. Macbeth becoming king
  • D. Banquo''s wearing of the crown
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This question i based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
'... I think our country skins beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds.'
Who made the above statement and to whom?

  • A. Macduff to Ross
  • B. Malcolm to Macduff
  • C. Malcolm to Ross
  • D. Macduff to Malcolm.
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This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born'.
'Ah, you know, the chichidodo is a bird
The chichidodo hates excrement with all its soul.
But the chichidodo only feeds on maggots, and you know the maggots grow best inside the lavatory. This is the chichidodo'.
Which character in the novel is likened to his bird?

  • A. Koomson
  • B. Oyo
  • C. The man
  • D. Teacher
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This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born'.
The use of the word 'salt' in the novel is suggestive of

  • A. the corruption in political life
  • B. an indispensable commodity
  • C. the destruction of social values
  • D. an instrument of decay and of cleansing
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This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
In his reaction to his friend's death, the mood of the poet, in 'For CHristopher Okigbo' is that of
  • A. shock
  • B. disbelief
  • C. acceptance
  • D. grief
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