1. The Dying Eagle: A light had gone out from his vanquished eyes; His head was cupped within the hunch of his shoulders; His feathers were dull and bedraggled; the tips Of his wings sprawled down to the edge of his tail. He was old, yet it was not his age Which made him roost on the crags Like a rain-drenched raven On the branch of an oak in ____?
A:) September
B:) November
C:) October
D:) December
springline- Correct option: B:) November
2. The Dying Eagle: Nor was it the night, for there was an hour To go before sunset. An iron had entered His soul which bereft him of pride and realm, Had struck him today; for up to noon That crag had been his throne. Space was his empire, bounded only By forest and _______?
A:) Sky
B:) Sea
C:) Hills
D:) Mountain
springline- Correct option: A:) Sky
3. A Telephone conversation: The tenant when he happens to know that the Lady is reluctant to give Impetuous accommodation to a Black, he is shocked. To cajole her, he says that he is not utterly black but he has the complexion of sepia. Sepia is a brown substance used in the manufacture of _____?
A:) milk and chocolate
B:) ink and paint
C:) ink and milk
D:) brown and ink
springline- Correct option: B:) ink and paint
4. A Telephone conversation: She belongs to the community of whites and she hates the Black community. At the Same time, she does not hold the phone when she came to know that the tenant is a Black. She is reluctant to accommodate the Blacks. She is not a ______
A:) firm lady
B:) solid lady
C:) weak lady
D:) yield lady
springline- Correct option: A:) firm lady
5. A Telephone conversation: She wants to accommodate the tenant because he is ready to pay the rent what she charges but the racism which is flowing in her mind does not allow her to give accommodation. She switches off the Phone, when the African tries to describe about his black private parts. It shows the womanish in her. The lady is uneducated for e.g. She does not understand the meanings like Sepia and ____
A:) flub
B:) Bequeath
C:) abole
D:) brunette
springline- Correct option: D:) brunette
6. A Telephone conversation: During the time of Wole Soyinka racism was at its peak in America. Africans didn't have freedom. They didn't get accommodation anywhere in the area of Whites. Here the African is in search of a room. At last he finds it and talks to the Land Lady through phone. He wants to live in the area of Whites. It shows him as_____?
A:) a educated man
B:) wit man
C:) a bold man
D:) civilized man
springline- Correct option: C:) a bold man
7. A Telephone conversation: Irony, sarcasm and satire indicate mockery of something or someone. The essential feature of irony is the indirect presentation of a contradiction between an action or expression and _______?
A:) the context
B:) the content
C:) the message
D:) emotional tones
springline- Correct option: A:) the context
8. A Telephone conversation: In the figure of speech, emphasis is placed on the opposition between the literal and intended meaning of a statement, one thing is said and its opposite is implied. In sarcasm, ridicule is used harshly for destructive purposes. It may be used in an indirect manner. Satire and irony are literary forms used at public figures or _______?
A:) condition
B:) situations
C:) level
D:) times
springline- Correct option: B:) situations
9. A Telephone conversation: The landlady is described as a polite, well-bred woman, even though she is shown to be shallowly racist. The speaker is described as being genuinely apologetic for his skin colour, even though he has no reason to be sorry for something which he was born with and has no control over. The speaker of the poem, Who is a dark ________?
A:) South African man
B:) North African man
C:) East African man
D:) West African man
springline- Correct option: D:) West African man
10. A Telephone conversation: The price seemed reasonable location Indifferent’. The first sentence of the poem includes a pun that introduces the theme of the poem and also informs the readers that things are not going to be as straight forward as they appear. The word 'indifferent' denotes that the location of the apartment is certainly biased and_______?
A:) complete
B:) disinterested
C:) partial
D:) fair
springline- Correct option: C:) partial
11. A Telephone conversation: He warns the landlady that he is African, instead of just informing her. ‘Caught I was, foully’ he says after listening to the silence the landlady had responded with ‘I hate a wasted journey- ________?
A:) I am African
B:) I am White
C:) Lady White
D:) I am Black
springline- Correct option: A:) I am African
12. A Telephone conversation: The landlady, on other hand, is described with nothing but positive terms. The speaker mentions her ‘good-breeding’, ‘lipstick coated’ voice, ‘long gold-cigarette holder’, all possessions that should make her a respectable lady. These words describing her ______?
A:) racism
B:) intention
C:) Wealth
D:) ignorance
springline- Correct option: C:) Wealth
13. A Telephone conversation: The British city in which Soyinka had been studying prior to writing this poem. In addition to the literal images that this description creates, a sense of the anger running through the speaker's mind is portrayed by the repeated use of the word ______?
A:) red
B:) Black
C:) White
D:) Sepia
springline- Correct option: A:) Sepia
14. A Dying Eagle: An aged eagle was the undisputed monarch of his realm. He ruled its territory from the mountain. From forests, to mountains to sky, every inch of it belonged to him. His empire had no boundaries. He had defeated and outlived all his _______
A:) rivals
B:) partners
C:) sons
D:) allies
springline- Correct option: A:) rivals
15. A Dying Eagle: One morning, the old eagle‟s eyes noticed a new bird in his territory. The new entrant was flying across freely. The eagle who saw this decided to have a look at it closely. So, he flew majestically and reached a position from where he could have a good look at the bird. When he looked at the new bird closely, he was ______?
A:) deaf
B:) dumb
C:) blind
D:) paining
springline- Correct option: B:) dumb
16. A Dying Eagle: As pride of the old eagle was shaken on that day by the rude behaviour of the intruder, a change came over the old monarch. The change was visible. His eyes had lost their usual charm. His feathers appeared dull and his wings were lowered down. His head was hidden with shame. He looked like a bird drenched in___?
A:) rain
B:) Fire
C:) blood
D:) air
springline- Correct option: A:) rain
17. Soyinka founded another theatrical group called the Guerrilla Unit. Its goal was to work with local communities in analysing their problems and to express some of their grievances in dramatic sketches. When his play Requiem for a Futurologist had its first performance at the University of Ife ?
A:) 1983
B:) 1984
C:) 1985
D:) 1986
springline- Correct option: A:) 1983
18. Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka known as Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first sub-Saharan African to be honoured in that category . When he won the Noble Prize?
A:) 1985
B:) 1986
C:) 1987
D:) 1988
springline- Correct option: B:) 1986
19. Edwin John Dove Pratt who published as E. J. Pratt, was ‘the leading Canadian poet of his time.’ He was a Canadian poet from Newfoundland who lived most of his life in Toronto, Ontario. A winner of the country's Governor General's Award for poetry, he has been called ‘the foremost Canadian poet of the first half of the century.’ How many times he won the country's Governor General's Award for poetry?
A:) one times
B:) two times
C:) three times
D:) four times
springline- Correct option: C:) three times
20. Wole Soyinka : In 1965, he seized the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service studio and broadcast a demand for the cancellation of the Western Nigeria Regional Elections. In 1967, during the Nigerian Civil War, he was arrested by the federal government of General Yakubu Gowon and put in solitary confinement for ________?
A:) Two years
B:) three years
C:) four years
D:) five years
springline- Correct option: A:) Two years
21. Wole Soyinka : When he was awarded the Europe Theatre Prize in the ‘Special Prize’ category awarded to someone who has ‘contributed to the realization of cultural events that promote understanding and the exchange of knowledge between peoples?
A:) November 2016
B:) December 2017
C:) March 2016
D:) May 2017
springline- Correct option: B:) December 2017
22. E.J. Pratt graduated from St. John's, Newfoundland's Methodist College in 1901. Like his father he became a candidate for the Methodist ministry, in 1904, and served a three-year probation before entering Victoria College of the University of Toronto. He studied psychology and theology, receiving his BA in 1911 and his Bachelor of Divinity in ________?
A:) 1914
B:) 1915
C:) 1926
D:) 1913
springline- Correct option: D:) 1913
23. Later in 1954, Soyinka relocated to England, where he continued his studies in English literature, under the supervision of his mentor Wilson Knight at the University of Leeds (1954–57). He met numerous young, gifted British writers. Before defending his B.A., Soyinka began publishing and working as editor for a satirical magazine called _______?
A:) The Eagle
B:) Pleasure
C:) Tell Magazine
D:) Newswatch
springline- Correct option: A:) The Eagle
24. Pratt's first published poem was ‘A Poem on the May examinations,’ printed in Acta Victoriana in 1909 when he was a student. In 1917 he privately published a long poem, Rachel: A Sea Story of Newfoundland. He then spent two years working on a verse drama, _________?
A:) The Iron Door
B:) Titans
C:) Clay
D:) Rachel
springline- Correct option: C:) Clay
25. After graduating with an upper second-class degree, Soyinka remained in Leeds and began working on an MA. He intended to write new works combining European theatrical traditions with those of his Yorùbá cultural heritage. His first major play, The Swamp Dwellers (1958), was followed a year later by ______?
A:) A Play of Giants
B:) The Lion and the Jewel
C:) Before the Blackout
D:) The Road
springline- Correct option: B:) The Lion and the Jewel
26. In 1957, his play The Invention was the first of his works to be produced at the Royal Court Theatre. At that time his only published works were poems such as ‘The Immigrant’ and ‘My Next Door Neighbour’, which were published in the Nigerian magazine _______?
A:) Newswatch
B:) Castles
C:) Ovation
D:) Black Orpheus
springline- Correct option: D:) Black Orpheus
27. Soyinka He was awarded an Honoris Causa doctorate by the University of Leeds in 1973. From 1973 to 1975, Soyinka spent time on scientific studies. Which is his autobiographical work a collection of notes from prison ?
A:) The Invention
B:) The Interpreters
C:) The Man Died
D:) Opera Wonyosi
springline- Correct option: C:) The Man Died
28. When the war on the horizon, Pratt wrote an anti-war poem, ‘The Fable of the Goats’, which became the title poem of his next volume and The Fable of the Goats and Other Poems, which included his classic free-verse poem ‘Silences,’ When he won his first Governor General's Award ?
A:) 1935
B:) 1936
C:) 1937
D:) 1938
springline- Correct option: C:) 1937
29. Soyinka: In 1979 he both directed and acted in Jon Blair and Norman Fenton's drama The Biko Inquest, a work based on the life of Steve Biko, a South African student and human rights activist who was beaten to death by apartheid police forces. In 1981 Soyinka published his autobiographical work Aké: The Years of Childhood, which won a Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in______?
A:) 1983
B:) 1984
C:) 1985
D:) 1986
springline- Correct option: A:) 1983
30. In ‘The Truant,’ a ‘somewhat comic deity, who speaks in evolutionary terms and metaphors, has man hauled before him to be punished for messing up the grand evolving scheme of things. Still Life and Other Verse included another poem, ‘The Truant,’ Who later called ‘the greatest poem in Canadian literature’ ?
A:) Helen Garner
B:) Carey
C:) Tim Winton
D:) Frye
springline- Correct option: D:) Frye