UTME CBT FREE Practice Test – Literature-In-English (Set 3)

Questions 1 - 5 is based on The Lion and the Jewel By Wole Soyinka (Drama; African)

1. What is the main impediment to Lakunle marrying Sidi?

A. His job    
B. The bride-price    
C. Her religion    
D. Her age

2. Lakunle calls Sidi a "____ girl."

A. Dumb    
B. Beastly    
C. Savage    
D. Bush

3. Lakunle believes what about women?

A. They are as strong as men
B. They are less intelligent than men
C. They are as intelligent as men
D. They should be kept in traditional wifely roles

4. What is the performance about?

A. Colonial rule   
B. The stranger coming to town    
C. Lakunle's teachings   
D. The bale

5. The stranger was known for his ______

A. Rude mannerisms    
B. Sense of humor    
C. Good looks    
D. Drunkenness

Questions 6 - 8 is based on Look Back In Anger By John Osborn (Drama; Non-African)

6. Jimmy disapproves the invitation offered to Helena by Alison, to come and stay with them because ______

A. Helena is in a relationship with Cliff
B. Helena is a witch doctor
C. Helena was part of Alison's past
D. none of the above

7. Who is Huge Tanner?

A. Helena's boyfriend
B. Alison's childhood friend
C. Jimmy's childhood friend
D. Cliff's childhood friend

8. The following are dramatic devices used in the play, 'Look Back In Anger' EXCEPT _____

A. imagery     B. humor      C. language      D. personification

Questions 9 - 11 is based on Unexpected Joy at Dawn – Alex Agyei-Agyiri (Prose; African)

9. Why did Nii in Unexpected Joy at Dawn decide to come back to Nigeria?

A. he has missed home
B. he is the only son
C. he was offered a job
D. he came to rejig his life

10. Pan-Africanism is personified by _______

A. Nii Tackie
B. Mama Orojo
C. Massa
D. none of the above

11. Nii Tackie was seperated from his family at a very young age due to ______

A. alienation policy in Nigeria
B. inseparable consequences
C. depression
D. alienation policy in Ghana

Questions 12 - 14 is based on Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta (Prose; African)

12. Adah sneaked out to Methodist School and walked into the class of _______

A. Mr. Francis    
B. Mr. Dabo    
C. Mr. Williams    
D. Mr. Cole

13. The police asked Adah's mother to ________, as a punishment for not allowing Ada to go to school.

A. kneel down    
B. sweep the police station    
C. drink a bowel of garri    
D. write a statement

14. Adah was transferred out of Methodist School because of ______

A. poor performance
B. her father's death
C. Mr. Cole sent her out class
D. her mother's attitude

Questions 15 - 16 is based on Wuthering Heights By Emily Blonte (Prose; Non-African)

15. Due to heavy snowfall, Lockwood asked for a ______ for him to return home safely.

A. transit bus    
B. taxi cab    
C. guide    
D. lantern

16. Dogs were set on Lockwood after Joseph accused him stealing _______

A. cash    
B. gold    
C. jewellery    
D. lantern

Questions 17 - 18 is based on Black Woman By Leopold Senghor (Poetry; African)

17. In your shadow I have grown up; the gentleness of Your hands was laid over my eyes.

In the expression above, the poet admits that he was _______ by a black woman

A. chastened    
B. tutored    
C. nurtured    
D. flogged

18. In the poem "The Black Woman", the poet personifies Africa as ________

A. the black woman
B. the land of the blacks
C. the land of the rising sun
D. the colonial land

Questions 19 - 20 is based on The Leader And The Led By Niyi Osundare (Poetry; African)

19. Another word for "Impalas" as used in line 6 of the poem, "The Leader and the led", is _____

A. a female dear    
B. very dangerous    
C. refined character    
D. an antelope

20. "transparent like a river, mysterious like a lake" [line 22]

The poetic device in the statement above is _____

A. simile    
B. metonymy    
C. metaphor    
D. personification

Questions 21 - 22 is based on The Grieved Land By Agostinho Neto (Poetry; African)

21. In the poem “The Grieved lands”, African culture was attacked and destroyed using ______ as a weapon.

A. grants
B. Christianity
C. economy
D. trade relations

22. The poem “The Grieved lands” has ______ stanzas

A. 5
B. 6
C. 7
D. 8

Questions 23 - 24 is based on The Song Of The Women Of My Land By Kumar Farouk Sesay (Poetry; African)

23. Qumar Farouk Sesay's poem, "The Song Of The Women Of My Land", classified the physical development of women in his land of birth into ______ stages

A. 1    
B. 2    
C. 3    
D. 4

24. The poem "The Song Of The Women Of My Land", classified the physical development of women into the following stages EXCEPT _____

A. childhood    
B. adult hood    
C. aging with grace    
D. babyhood

Questions 25 - 26 is based on Raiders of the Treasure Trove By Lade Worsonu (Poetry; African)

25. The first line of stanza one the poem Raider of the Treasure Trove by Lade Wosornu reads:

"But what can be worthy of your life?"

The literary device used in the statement above is _______

A. imagery
B. metaphor
C. rhetorical question
D. alliteration

26. 'To fly flags of joy" as used in line 4 of the first stanza of the poem, refers to which of the poetic devices listed in the options below?

A. imagery
B. metaphor
C. rhetorical question
D. alliteration

Questions 27 - 28 is based on A Government Driver on His Retirement By Chibuike Onu (Poetry; African)

27.  One of the moral lesson in the poem, A Government Driver on his Retirement, is _______

A. freedom is good
B. driving is a skill
C. caution and moderation in all we do
D. every civil servant deserves retirement

28. In stanza _______ the Government Driver on his Retirement called his friend to rejoice with him.

A. one    
B. two    
C. three    
D. four

Questions 29 - 30 is based on Caged Bird By Maya Angelou (Poetry; Non-African)

29. According to the poet of "Caged Bird", the WHITES are the _____ birds

A. caged    
B. free    
C. American    
D. African

30. ‘Caged Bird’ by Maya Angelou is a _____ stanza poem

A. five    
B. six    
C. seven    
D. eight

Questions 31 - 35 is based on General Literary Principles

31. An iambic metrical foot consists of ______

A. An unstressed syllable following a stressed syllable
B. a stressed syllable following another stressed syllable
C. an unstressed syllable following another unstressed syllable
D. a stressed syllable following an unstressed syllable.

32. Empathy is achieved when the audience _______

A. feels betrayed by the director
B. denounces and humiliates the protagonist
C. vicariously participates in the stage experience
D. attacks the character foil

33. The overall design of a drama to which all other components relate is its _______

A. catharsis    
B. exposition   
C. structure    
D. symbol

34. What does the protagonist do in a picaresque novel?

A. He embarks on a journey
B. He slows down the narration
C. He draws illustrative pictures
D. He becomes an artist

35. In the plot of a novel emphasis should be placed on ______

A. showing casual connection of incidents
B. the vivid presentation of incidents
C. the accurate presentation of incidents
D. narrating the truth of incidents

Questions 36 - 40 is based on Literary Appreciation

36. 'The old Squire was an implacable man: he
made in violent anger, but he was not
moved from them after his anger subsided
as fiery as volcanic matters cool and harden
into rock'

- George Eliot, Silas Miner

In the statement above, the Squire is portrayed as a _____

A. kind and generous friend
B. father to everyone in the community
C. miserly and ungracious ruler
D. quick tempered and adamant man

37. 'I'm not going to be drawn into that old trap
of an argument and be picked up by the tail
like some wet rat out of a sewer.’

The speaker in the statement above is being _____

A. symbolical   
B. analogical  
C. metaphorical   
D. parabolical

38. 'Oshor"... Winds howl forth-howl forth,
hold back hold back-is it the time
on endless time-slung in oblivion,
make minced meat of your prey.'

Charity Angya, The Cycle of the Moon.

The mood captured in the lines above is one of ______

A. fear   
B. happiness   
C. indifference   
D. joy

39. 'Oshor"... Winds howl forth-howl forth,
hold back hold back-is it the time10
on endless time-slung in oblivion,
make minced meat of your prey.'
Charity Angya, The Cycle of the Moon.

The literary device used is _____

A. parallelism   
B. irony   
C. onomatopoeia   
D. repetition

40. 'Those years of my travels. Years of
innocence and experience ... months of
twidding my thumbs with insecurity. In
search of my true people. Yes, in search of
my true people. But wherever I went I did
not find people but caricatures of people
who insisted on being taken seriously as
people Perhaps I was on the wrong planet.
In the wrong skin.'

- Dambudzo-Marechera, Black Sunlight.

The passage above expresses the state of mind of _____

A. an alienated man   
B. an adventurer   
C. a renegade soldier    
D. a prisoner