UNIBEN General Paper 2014/2015 Past Questions

The subject matter of the poem,'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' by Langston Hughes is .......

A narration is said to be an epistolary work it it is largely conceived in................

An image which appeals to the scene of sight is called .........

The predominant literary device in the expression 'twenty thousand hands descended on the devilish head is .........

'As the Alsatians roared and howled, the car screeched and squelched its back tyres on the tarmac road. The above statement illustrative use of a/an ..........

The Literary piece that assumes a sort of providential awareness of the audience or the spectators, while some of the characters or orators in the play seem blind is

'Love is the star to every wandering bark', The figure of speech used in the above line is ..........

The first eight lines of a sonnet is called ........

In the 'Women of Owu' by Femi Osofisan, the god Anlugbua appeared to the two women is ..............

Kwado in 'A Woman in her Prime' promised to name their girl child........

In the poem 'Some Lines are bitter pills' is a metaphor for ........

Franchise simply means .........

Laws made by local government are called ..........

The Oyomesi council of chief in pre-colonial Yoruba land was made up of ........noble chiefs and headed by the ........

The first Executive President of Nigeria is........

Whicch two political parties in Nigeria evolved as ethnic cultural organizations?

The British used the principle of ....... in the administration of her colonies in West Africa

An indispensable element in government is...........

Legitimacy is a ........

A system of government in which political powers are in the heads of the few best citizens for the benefit of all is known as..........

When was the first military coup in Nigeria?

When was the Aba Women riot?

Which off the following constitution introduced the elective principle into the Nigeria policy?

the igbo political system was a..........

Which of the following is not a type of election?

'The Tempest' by William Shakespeare can be described as a story of ............

'You cannot stop receiving the body of our lord. It is death, you know that....' From the excerpt in Purple Hibiscus by C.N. Adichie above, the body of our Lord referred to is............

' I am as clear as the stars that are my brothers' is an example of..........

In the poem 'Myopia' by Syl Cheney-Coker, the word madness represents .............

In the poem 'Expelled' by Jared Angira, the line 'my tears flowed to flooded streams' is an example of ...........

One agonizing feature of imperialist trade in Africa, according to thee poet in the poem 'Expelled' is .............

The central theme of the poem 'serenade' is .........

The poem 'Hard Lines' by Gbemicola Adeoti is ............

'As the night injects us with cool breeze' is an example of......

In a situation where a constituency is manipulated to favour the ruling party is called

Paul and Barnabas separated on the second missionary journey because of ...........

the Controversy in the church at Antioch in Syria arose because of the different opinions the members had about the observation of the ..........

The 'Living water' Jesus offered to the woman o fSamaria represents.......

The final trial of Jesus was presided over by

during the Transfiguration, mMoses and Elijah talked to Jesus about ..........

According to the second account of creation man was not allowed to eat of the tree ........

The quality that distinguished Joshua and Caleb from the spiess was their ........

when Samuel said to Saul, to obey is better than sacrifice, he meant that .............

The Israelites preferred monarchy to theocracy because ..........

'No one can serve two masters' This means that one should not ..............

Paul said in Galatians that, before faith came, we were confined under ...........

The name of the prophet that God sent to reprimand David of his sins was

For the church to maintain a good relationship with the governing authorities, Christians are advised to ........

The treasures which Jesus wants us to lay in heaven are ........

Jesus said 'I am the bread of life, he who comes to me shall not hunger'. The 'bread of life', in this context means the ...........