Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

In the play The Gods Are Not To Blame, Odewale became King of Kutuje by

A Usurpation in a typical Ijekun manner
B Deserting the poeple of Ikolu whose army he led
C Divulging the war secrets of Ikolu to Kutuje
D Leading Kutuje in a war against Ikolu.

Question 2:

'No, let them attack me. Is it not Ignorance that makes the rat attack the cat? Ten thousand of them-let them ... attack me. they have the arms, they have the swords. But me... I have only one weapon and this i have used, and mine is the victory...'
The one weapon to which the speaker in The Gods Are Not To Blame refers is

A Pprophecy
B Courage
C Truth
D Justice.

Question 3:

'The let these eyes around me close, Close close in sleep, close in sleep. That is my word-the mountain always sleeps. Sleep Sleep... sleep..sleep...'
These lines from The Gods Are Not To Blame were chanted by

A Iya Aburo to mesmerise her son
B Baba Fakunle to mesmerise his assailants
C Odewale to mesmerise his assailants
D Old man to mesmerise Odewale.

Question 4:

'But Obatal,
God Creation,
has a way
of consoling the distressed.
The consolation referred to by the narrator in The Gods Are Not To Blame is the

A Great peace that reigned in the land of Kutuje
B Subjugation of the warlike people of Ikolu
C Pregnancy of Aburo, Odewale's second wife
D Birth of Aderopo by Ojuola.

Question 5:

FIRST BODYGUARD: A madman wanting to see the king! The world, indeed, is mad OJUOLA: How do you know he is a madman?
Which of the following is the answer given by the second bodyguard to Ojuola in The Gods Are Not To Blame?

A Everyone can see he is mad, your highness
B Only a madman would want to see the king now, your highness
C We all know him very well, your highness
D He is not a man of our tribe, your highness.