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Competitive Entrance into ENS Bambili - Modern Letters 2011

SECTION A: MAJOR PAPER; ENGLISH GRAMMAR

1. Paul misplaced his purse yesterday. In this sentence, the word ‘his’ is a

A. Descriptive adjective

B. Pronoun

C. Possessive adjective

D. Reflexive adjective

2. The easiest food to cook is rice. In this sentence, the infinitive ‘to cook’ is an

A. Infinitive modifier

B. Adjectival modifier

C. An adverbial modifier

D. intensifier

3. Paul left home having eaten his food. In this sentence, the phrase in bold is a(n)

A. Gerund

B. Adverbial clause of time

C. Adjectival clause

D. None of the above

4. Paul told Charles a story. In this sentence, the word ‘Charles” is a(n)

A. Complement

B. Predicate noun

C. Direct object

D. None of the above

5. Car theft in developed nations is

A. In the rise

B. At the rise

C. With the rise

D. None of the above

6. The two brothers are at daggers

A. Fighting

B. Clench

C. Drawn

D. end

7. the police checked Charles’ documents ‘before he left’ is (n)

A. adverbial clause of time

B. noun clause

C. adverbial clause of reason

D. none of the above

8. The Pope’s first visit to Cameroon was in 1985. In this sentence, the word ‘first’ is a(n)

A. Adverb

B. Noun

C. Descriptive adjective

D. None of the above

9. We would have eaten the food if I __________ prepared.

A. Has been

B. Was

C. Were

D. None of the above

10. I ‘used to’ play football when I was young. In this sentence “used to’ is a

A. Principal modal

B. Semi-modal

C. Lexical verb

D. Primary auxiliary

11. The president of the republic together with his ministries_____________coming…

A. Are

B. Is

C. Are not

D. None of the above

12. None _____________, happy as those who have ‘gone to London”

A. Are

B. Is

C. Was

D. Wasn’t

13. The health committee_____________happy that they have a grant of 10.000 CFA…

A. Had been

B. Are

C. Is

D. None of the above

14. The economics of the project_____________ to be considered.

A. Has

B. Is

C. Are

D. None of the above

15. Having talked rapidly, John was out of breath. In this sentence ‘having talked’ is

A. Present participle

B. Past participle

C. Gerund

D. Perfect participle

16. Simon is supposed to have read that novel. In this sentence ‘to have read’ is

A. Present infinitive

B. Past infinitive

C. Perfect infinitive

D. None of the above

17. Mercy, the class coordinator, is intelligent. In this sentence the word “intelligent’ is

A. Descriptive adjective

B. Objective compliment

C. Predicate nominative

D. None of the above

18. I am late today,

A. Not so?

B. Isn’t it?

C. Isn’t I?

D. None of the above

19. Neither John nor the workers_____________eating ndole.

A. Likes

B. Do like

C. Does like

D. None of the above

20. Paul used to play football when he was young. In this sentence ‘used to’ is

A. Past tense

B. Perfect conditional

C. Past conditional

D. Past habitual

21. The children will have slept by the time we arrive home. In this sentence ‘will have slept’ is

A. Perfect future tense

B. Past future perfect

C. Present future tense

D. None of the above

22. The records of FIFA show that the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon _____________the Brazillian team before

A. Did win

B. Has won

C. Won

D. None of the above

23. Some Nigerians are _____________ above the political evolution of their country

A. Complaisant

B. Complacement

C. Committed

D. complimentary

24. A rapist is a_____________person

A. Contemptuous

B. Contemptible

C. Contemptuous

D. contending

25. the thief walked_____________ the police ran away

A. Pass

B. Passed

C. Past

D. None of the above

26. The food in the flask is delicious. In this sentence the phrase ‘in the flask’ is (n)_____________ modifier.

A. Adverbial

B. Adjectival

C. Predicate infinitive

27. John passed the entrance examination that he wrote. In this sentence the bold part is

A. A noun clause

B. An adverbial clause of concession

C. An adjectival clause

D. None of the above

28. Paul did so well in the examination. In this sentence the verb ‘did’ is modified by

A. So well

B. So

C. Well

D. In the examination

29. Africans were enslaved in America. In this sentence the verb is

A. Enslaved

B. Were enslaved

C. Were

D. None of the above

30. The national anthem in Cameroon is_____________now.

A. Performant

B. Performing well

C. Not performant

D. None of the above{loadmodule mod_jdownloads_latest,

 

SECTION B: MINOR PAPER: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH


1. A pair of unstressed and stressed syllables is a poetic word.
A. Rhyme
B. Iambic foot
C. Trochaic
D. ode
2. A pair of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poetic word
A. Tochaic foot
B. Iambic foot
C. Anapetestic
D. Dactylic foot
3. Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable within a poetic line
A. Trochaic foot foot
B. Ode
C. Dactylic foot
D. Anapestic foot
4. Two stressed syllables followed by an unstressed syllable within a poetic line
A. Iambic foot
B. Dactylic foot
C. Trochaic foot
D. Anapestic foot
5. A literary device in which a part is used to represent a whole
A. Synechdoche
B. Metonymy
C. Oxymoron
D. Paradox
6. A reconciliation of apparently irreconcilable statements
A. Irony
B. Oxymoron
C. Paradox
D. Pun
7. A deliberate play of homophones within a poem
A. Gesture
B. Punning
C. Rhyme
D. Enjambment
8. A narrative strategy that succeeds partly on letter
A. Novella
B. Epistolary novel
C. Bildungsroman
D. Narratology
9. A counter discourse mounted in African and oriental literary criticisms.
A. Cross cultural studies
B. Postmodernism
C. Postcolonialism
D. orientalism
10. Critical approaches that celebrate the deaths of authors
A. Hermeneutics
B. New criticisms
C. Functionalism
D. Sociological approaches
11. A critical approach that emphasizes incredulity towards Mta narratives
A. Post colonialism
B. Postmodernism
C. New historicism
D. Marxism
12. A critical approach that insists on the historicity of the text and the textuality of the history
A. Historicism
B. New historicism
C. Historionics
D. Hermeneutics
13. An appropriate critical tool that examines issues of manner and matter
A. Formalism
B. Socio-aesthetics
C. Functionalism
D. Cultural materialism
14. A figure of speech in which an attribute of a thing is used to represent it
A. Archaism
B. Hyperbole
C. Synecdoche
D. metonymy
15. A poet who composes sonnets
A. Lyricisit
B. Sonneteer
C. Sonnet
D. Sonnet writer
16. Which of these adjectives describes the relationship between literature and society?
A. Reciprocal
B. Dialectical
C. Oppositional
D. Identical
17. A critical approach that focuses on the role of human environment in artistic creation
A. Environmentalism
B. Humanism
C. Ecocriticism
D. Orientalism
18. Who wrote the Sublime?
A. Plato
B. Aristotle
C. Longinus
D. Frued
19. Who wrote The Famished Roots?
A. Ngugi
B. Ekweni
C. Ekwensi
D. Armah
20. What critical approach celebrates art for arts’ sake?
A. Sociology of Literature
B. New Criticism
C. Semiology
D. Functionalism
21. What genre of oral tales claims to explain the origin and nature of phenomena?
A. Fable
B. Etiological tale
C. Giant tale
D. Tall tale
22. Which African scholar coined the word “Orature”?
A. Olantunde
B. Okpewho
C. Pio Zirimu
D. Finnegan
23. What English novel was written as a parody to Fielding’s Joseph Andrew?
A. The Mayor of Casterbridge
B. Pamela
C. Pride and Prejudice
D. Animal Farm
24. A pattern of poetic composition in which ideas or sentences flow over to proceeding lines without any punctuation marks.
A. Overflows
B. Ode
C. Enjambement
D. Free Verse
25. A character in English fiction that shares close affinities with Okonkwo in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
A. Crusoe
B. Henehard
C. Parson Adams
D. Tom Sawyer

26. A novel considered to be starting point of English fiction
A. Pilgrim’s Progress
B. Pride and Prejudice
C. A Tale of Two Cities
D. Robinson Crusoe
27. A kind of creative technique in which the reader is expected to be involved in the creative process
A. Intertextuality
B. Reader response
C. Narratology
D. Stream of Consciousness
28. What technical name is given to quotation proverbs?
A. Aphorism
B. Epigrams
C. Wellerisms
D. Wit
29. Which of these is a typical precolonist novel?
A. The White Man of God
B. Things Fall Apart
C. The Concubine
D. Mand of the People
30. A character in Shakespearean tragedy described as the motive hunter of the motiveless malignity
A. Macbeth
B. Caesar
C. Lago
D. Lear

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