Questions 2 to 5 are based on Femi Osofisan’s Women of Owu

Questions 6 to 10 are based on William Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

Questions 11 to 13 are based on Asare Konadu’s A Woman in Her Prime.

Questions 14 to 16 are based on Chimamanda Adiechie’s Purple Hibiscus

Questions 17 to 20 are based on Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea

Questions 21 to 30 are based on Selected Poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.) New Poetry from Africa; 

Questions 31 to 40 are based on General Literary Principles

Questions 41 to 50 are based on Literary Appreciation. 

He is a faithful liar

Fights by the book of arithmetic

And when you trudge on one horny pads Gullied like the soles of modern shoes Pads that even jiggers cannot conquer

‘Lift not the painted veil which those who live call life: though unreal shapes be picture there, And it but mimic all we would believe With colours idly spread-behind, lurk fear.’ P.B Shelley: 

Use the following excerpt to answer questions 46 to 48. 

You Your head is like a drum that is beaten for spirits. 

‘This thing you are doing is too heavy for you, he said. I went to school only a little but I have killed many many more years in this world than you have’. G. Okara: The voice