DELSU General Paper 2014/2015 Past Questions

Literature is studies as a subject at school because

One of the following writers is known as a playwright than a novelist

The difference between tragedy and comedy is :

One of the statements is true of the novel:

A couplet is a:

A motif is:

Romantic poetry emphasizes:

The antagonist in a tragedy is:

The tendency in words to echo the meaning by actual sound is called:

What we call ‘tragic flaw’ is the:

Characterization in a novel means the:

A good poem must:

‘That year the harvest was sad, like a funeral and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. One man tied his cloth to a tree branch and hanged himself’ The mood conveyed here is one of:

“Girls dance and sing. Men clap. The walls sing and press inward. They press the men and girls, they press John towards a centre of physical ecstasy”. To whom does “they” refer

The novel, Things fall Apart by Chinua Achebe was first published in:

------ were probably the only ethnic group in Africa in almost every country in West Africa:

While enemies who submitted voluntarily and accepted Islam escaped enslavement others were reduced to ------

---------- indicate that there was a great deal of economic development and intergroup relations in Nigeria between 1500 and 1800:

By the 18th century, Oyo was the largest of the forest states. Bounded in the north by the Niger, Togo land, in the west and south by the Gulf of Guinea where-----were its main coastal outlets.

In the hey days of the trans-saharan trade--------- was referred to as “the Manchester of the Western Sudan”:

Most of the slaves came from the region between modern Ghana and Cameroon, hence the coastline became known as the:

----- has been a crossroad of Africa since ancient times in an area which formed part of what was known as the belt of the great empires of the Western Sudan

The Capital that was moved to birni Ngazar-gamu was first situated at -------

Oyo remained strong for two hundred years and it became a protectorate of Great Britain in -----------

After the 16th century, Benin mainly exported Pepper, Ivory, gum and cotton to the Portuguese and -----who resold it to other African societies on the coast.

What put pad to link of the Igbo origin to the infamous Hamitic hypothesis is the -------

The long juju of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade era was situated at:

Which of the following city was NOT a major centre for the trans-saharan trade?

Which conclusion can be drawn from a study of early civilization of Axum, Kush, Mali and Songhai

Which of these theories best explain the origin of the Asante Kingdom?

The parable of the unjust judge teaches:

The real name of Bar-Jesus (Acts 13: 14) is :

Justification by faith means:

The book of apocalypse is :

The meaning of Religion is:

The three main types of religion in Nigeria:

God created -------- on the 4th day(Gen.1):

Eli died along with his 2 sons because he:

Another word for the gospel is:

Which of these is not a sign of humility?

The latin word for religion is:

The consequence of the sin of Gehazi (2kings 5: 27)was:

Nehemiah in his effort to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem prayed against the taunt of:

The true worship of God in Amos requires

“Why are afraid, oh! Men of little faith” (Matt 8: 23) was said in the context of:

Social revolution are carried out by a :

The first institution where moral values are learnt is:

Value is:

Religion is part of the ------ of any society

Sexual abuse, rape, armed robbery, drug abuse, riot and host of others are example of: