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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.
'...these white lilies tossed their little heads then
In the moon-steeped ponds;
There was bouncing gaiety in the crisp chirping
Of the cricket in the undergrowth,...
These lines from Kwesi Brew's 'The Executioner's
Dream suggest that

  • A. even nature rejoices at human sacrifice
  • B. nature is indifferent to man's predicament
  • C. there is harmony in nature
  • D. there is a lot of activity in the undergrowth
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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.
'The Fulani Creation Story' shows that

  • A. the world came about by a series of chance happenings
  • B. the world was created in three days
  • C. a logic of cause-and-effect underlies all creation
  • D. death came into the world when man set himself up as God's rival
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This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
'' This madness which they say you have must now begin to know its bounds. You are telling me to go and find cassava for you...''
In view of the speaker's aim, this statement is

  • A. ambiguous
  • B. hyperbolic
  • C. ironic
  • D. an understatement
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This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
Which of the following BEST describes Ezeulu's mood when he was locked up in Okperi by the white administrator?

  • A. Indifference
  • B. Despair
  • C. Apathy
  • D. Nobility of mind
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This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
'''It is good for a misfortune like this to happen once in a while,'he said, 'so that we can know the thoughts of our friends and neighbours. Unless the wind blows we do not see the fowl's rump.''
The 'misfortune' referred to in this extract was the

  • A. misunderstanding between Akueke and her husand
  • B. outrage which Oduche committed against the sacred python
  • C. sending away of Ezeulu's sons to worship the whiteman's God
  • D. ominous vist of Ezeulu's in-laws to his compound
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