Question 2 to 5 are based on J.C. De Graft’s Sons and Daughters.

Use the quotation below to answer questions 1 and 5. ‘If you touch me, I shall smash your face with this bottle.’

Questions 6 to 10 are based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet


“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life…”

O she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night A rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear.”

“The all-seeing sun, Ne’er saw match since first the world begun.”

Questions 11 to 13 are based on Ferdinand Oyono’s The Old Man and the Medal

Meka, kneeling down in his usual fashion with his behind up in the air. Kelara knelt down beside him.

“He had knocked his toes against so many things that he had no toenails anymore and the yaws he had suffered from his youth had twisted his toesup so that they pointed to the sky”

They said their prayers in a monotonous sing-song, kneeling on their bamboo bed like camels waiting to be loaded.”

Questions 14 to 16 are based on Buchi Emecheta’ The joy of Motherhood.

Questions 21 to 30 are based on selected poems from Johnson, R, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ED.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus:

“…the youthful hue/sits on thy skin like a morning dew…”

“We would be believing we dreamt it”

Questions 31 to 40 are based on general Literary Principles

Questions 31 to 40 are based on general Literary Principles

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Questions 41 to 50 are based on Literary Appreciation 41.


O! Ceremony, show me but thy worth What is thy soul of adoration

“What eyes will watch our large mouths, Shaped by the laughter of big children What eyes will watch our large mouths?” Birage Diop: 

The old man slept in his favourite chair The wind ran its fingers through his hair He looked like a tree gone dry of sap And his hands were dry upon his lap

Unequal laws unto a savage race, That board, and sleep, and feed….

…How can I look at Oyo and say I hate long shiny cars? How can I come to the children and despise international schools? And Koomson comes, and the family sees Jesus Christ in him….

“Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth” Wole Soyinka:Night

“Serrated shadows, through dark leaves, Til, bathed in warm suffusion of your dapped cells Sensation pained me, faceless, silent as well night thieves.” Wole Soyinka: 

“The drums overwhelmed the guns…” J.P Clark: 

….They do not see the funeral piles At home eating up the forests…’ J.P. Clark:Casualties

“I cannot rest from travel: