UTME CBT FREE Practice Test – Literature-In-English (Set 4)

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

1. How is the Bale described?

A. Wiry    
B. 62 years old    
C. Goateed    
D. All of these

2. Who plays Chief Baseje in the performance?

A. Lakunle    
B. Himself    
C. Baroka     
D. Sidi

3. Lakunle states that the performance is _______

A. Too tragic    
B. Insightful    
C. Modern and interesting    
D. Childish nonsense

4. Sidi tells Lakunle that he would have been a good ______

A. Preacher   
B. Ruler   
C. Court jester    
D. Fortune teller

5. How long has it been since the Bale took a wife?

A. 2 months   
B. 4 months   
C. 5 months    
D. 8 months

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

6. Jimmy's attack on the church is simply because ______

A. the church is close by
B. Alison goes to church regularly
C. the church bell disturbed his sleep
D. the character of the church is not a reflection of true Christianity

7. Who operates the sweet stall business in the play 'Look Back In Anger'?

A. Alison     B. Helena     C. Jimmy     D. Cliff

8. Helena advises Alison to quit her marriage with Jimmy in order to ______

A. protect Alison's job
B. protect Alison and her baby
C. relieve Cliff's influence on the family
D. none of the above

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

9. Who is the assistant manager at the Expense Bank?

A. Nii Tackie
B. Joe Boye
C. Massa Awosika
D. Aaron Tsuru

10. The spiritual man mentioned in the novel is known as ______

A. man of god
B. evangelist
C. spiritual spirit
D. God is beyond science

11. One of the themes of the novel, Unexpected Joy at Dawn, is _____

A. Joy
B. Happiness
C. Xenophobia
D. Nationalism

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

12. The rousing welcome given to Lawyer Nweze on arrival at Apapa Wharf made Adah vow to go to _____

A. Lagos    
B. Ibusa    
C. France    
D. London

13. One of the theme of the novel, Second Class Citizen is _______

A. The abuse of marriage
B. The joy of motherhood
C. The pride of travelling to London
D. none of the above

14. Adah referred Lagos to a ________.

A. center of excellence    
B. God-forsaken place    
C. center of commerce    
D. commercial city

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

15. Lockwood was made to understand that Catherine and Heathcliff were playmates living together as brother and sister through _______ dairy.

A. Catherine's    
B. Heathcliff's    
C. Lookwood's    
D. Joseph's

16. Lockwood wakes up from his dream screaming because ______

A. he lost his way to the Moor
B. a voice introduces herself as Catherine
C. of the injuries and blood stains from the child he tried to help
D. none of the above

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

17. The poem, "The Black Woman" is a type of ______

A. ode     B. elegy     C. idyll     D. ballad

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. "The Hynea says the crown is made for him [line 5].

The figure of speech of the underlined word is ____

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

20. Another word for "Doe" as used in line 21 of the poem, "The Leader and the led", is _____

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

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

21. The poem “The Grieved lands” as a whole is written in _______ lines

A. 38
B. 39
C. 40
D. 41

22. The poet of the poem “The Grieved lands” expresses his anger over the frustration and emotional anguish suffered by Africans who died in the hands of the whites without their dreams fulfilled in stanza _______

A. 3
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. The poem "The Song Of The Women Of My Land" appreciates the contributions of women to their various families which are usually ______

A. celebrated by the society
B. rewarded by the government
C. unannounced and unrewarded
D. undecided

24. The stanzas three and four of the poem "The Song Of The Women Of My Land" are structured in ______ lines

A. 5    B. 6    C. 7    D. 8

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

25. Which of the following options best explain the author's expression in line 4 - "To fly flags of joy"

A. To fly the flag of Nigeria
B. To sing the National Anthem
C. To seek to do things that bring happiness
D. To think about life uncertainties

26. Lade Wosornu is an African poet from ____

A. Nigeria
B. Ghana
C. Kenya
D. South African

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

27. The unguided conduct of the government driver, who gives himself to excess drinking was displayed in stanza ______

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

28. The literary device used to represent the death of the government driver in line 33-34 is ______

A. simile     B. diction     C. personification     D. euphemism

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

29. Angelou chose to write the poem, "Caged Bird", in free verse. This means that ________

A. the poem lacks fluidity
B. the poem lacks music
C. the verses of the poem are easy to assimilate
D. there is no single rhyme scheme or metrical pattern that unites all the lines

30. In the poem, ‘Caged Bird’, which of the birds sings fearfully of things he does not know, but still wants,  and his song can be heard from as far away as distant hills?

A. white bird    
B. free bird    
C. caged bird    
D. black bird

Questions 31 - 35 is based on General Literary Principles

31. An irredeemable reversal of the hero's fortune in a tragedy is called _____

A. anagnorisis    
B. peripeteia   
C. purgation    
D. hubris.

32. A limerick has is _____

A. ornate style, humour, irony and seven lines
B. humour, rhyme scheme and five lines
C. formal and elaborate style and humour
D. a stinging climax, rhyme scheme and five lines

33. A plot in a literary work is about _____

A. character delineation.
B. causal arrangement of events.
C. resolution of conflicts.
D. law of poetic justice.

34. And so Tom awoke; and we rose in the dark
And got with our bags and our brushes to
work Though the morning was cold, Tom
was happy and warm; So if all do their duty
they need not fear harm.'

In the lines above, Tom is warm because he _____

A. has just woken from sleep
B. is wearing warm clothes
C. is working indoors
D. is doing his duty

35. 'Loveliest of trees, the cherry now is hung
with bloom along the bough and stands
about the woodland ride wearing white
for Eastertide.

A. E. Houseman, Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Tree '

In the excerpt above, the subject matter is _____

A. love of tree   
B. snow at easter   
C. woodland ride    
D. cherry bloom

Questions 36 - 40 is based on Literary Appreciation

36. 'If I can fasten but one cup upon him with
that which he had drunk tonight already
He'll be as full of quarrel and offence As
my young mistress' dog...'

- Shakespeare, Othello

From the statement above it can be inferred that the speaker is _____

A. disobedient   
B. quarrelsome  
C. servile   
D. scheming

37. 'It was January and Monday. I began to
understand. After every weekend, my
father had to gather his nerve to go back to
teaching. During the Christmas vacation he
became slack and in a fury of screw-turning
had to retighten himself. The long haul he
called the stretch between Christmas and
Easter.'

- John Updike, The Centaur.

The long haul in the narrative above describes _____

A. a long strike
B. Christmas and Easter holidays
C. a long period of hard work
D. a long vacation

38. 'l wonder how long, you awful parasites,
Shall share with me this little bed, And
awake me, from my sweet dreams be
lost, By sucking blood from my poor
head...' .

- Mbure: To a Bed-Bug

The lines are an example of a _____

A. light verse.    B. light opera.    C. limerick.    D. lampoon

39. One rhyme scheme typical of the English sonnet is _______

A. abab cded efef gg
B. abab cded cde dee
C. abba abba cde dee
D. abba abba cde cde.

40. The form of poetry that celebrates with nostalgia the ideal world of the countryside is referred to as _____

A. a ballad   
B. an ode   
C. a pastoral   
D. an elegy