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This question is based on Literary Principles.
'They came for him that Sunday. He had just returned from a night's vigil on the mountain. He was resting on his bed, Bible open at the Book of Revelation, when two police constables, one tall, the other short, knocked at the door.'
Ngugi, 'Petals of Blood'
The writer of the passage above arrests the interest of the reader by employing
  • A. a suspenseful opening
  • B. an appropriate setting
  • C. short clear sentences
  • D. images of violence
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This question is based on Literary Principles.
'And why must we be sad When the messiahs are with us to hound us and butt-gun us into greater tomorrow.'
Odia Ofeimun, ' The Messiahs'
The tone of the lines above is
  • A. satiric
  • B. sarcastic
  • C. indicting
  • D. self-pitying
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This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

'If my dear Hastings be out constant, i make no doubt to be too hard for her at last. '
The lines above in the play are delivered by

  • A. Kate
  • B. Tony
  • C. Marlow
  • D. Constance
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This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.

Brother Chume as a member of Jero's congregation is

  • A. an informed disciple
  • B. a messenger to Brother Jero
  • C. a loyalist and a good husband
  • D. a disgruntled and gullible follower
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This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.

Amope is dissatisfied with her husband's status as a

  • A. bicycle owner
  • B. chief clerk
  • C. chief messenger
  • D. deputy to Jero
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