Literature in English Past Questions

This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter
''...The sugar-daddy of the boutique dresses wants to marry Binetou. Just imagine...'''
What is ironical about this statement ?

This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter
'If you can procreate without loving, merely to satisfy the pride of your declining mother, then I' find you despicable...'
Whose words are these?

This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter
''A wife must understand once and for all, and must forgive; she must not worry herself about 'betrayals of the flesh. The important thing is what there is in the heart.''
These words are spoken by

This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter
'You forget that I have a heart, a mind, that I am not an object to be passed from hand to hand.
You don't know what marriage means to me....'These words by Ramatoulaye are addressed to

This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter
'....One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs knock one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end.'
On what occasion do these lines occur in the novel?

This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
''....that no man however great was greater than his people; that no one ever won judgement against his clan.''
Achebe's conclusion was that

This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
'The crisis over the New Yam Feast arose because

This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
''' It is not bravery for a man to beat his wife.
I know a man and his wife must quarrel; there is no abomination in that... No, you may quarrel; but let it not end in fighting...''
These words concern

This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
The statement 'the new religion was like a leper' means that

This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
'Thereafter, any yam harvest in the fields was harvested in the name of the son'
The 'son' referred to in the above quotation is

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
In the poem 'The Prodigals' the line 'their heads are claimed by clouds' means that the military leaders

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
The technique Kwesi Brew employs to portray the nightmarish image in his poem 'The Executioner's Dream' is the description of the

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
'Withering, burn, ghost, a scatter, dusty, half-bare
The above combination of words from Kwesi Brew's
'The Dry Season' thematically suggests

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
In the poem 'Night' Neto suggests that the oppressed

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
'Idoto' in Okigbo's 'The Passage' is the name of

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
The atmosphere of Birago Diop's 'Vanity' is dominated by

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
The poet's mood in Gabriel Okara's 'The Fisherman's invocation' is characterized by

This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.
In Raina's view, if one is incapable of gratitude, he is incapable of any noble