Tuesday, March 4, 2025

The Lion and the Jewel / Post-Colonial Literature / III BA

 

Post-Colonial Literature

  Wole Soyinka                         :           The Lion and the Jewel

 

 UNIT- 3

101. What is the nationality of Wole Soyinka?

     a. American b. Nigerian      c. Dutch      d. British

102. Wole Soyinka won the Nobel Prize for Literature in_________.

     a. 1986        b. 1976     c. 1956     d. 1996

 

103. Which of the following plays is not written by Wole Soyinka?

    a. The Lion and the Jewel b. The Dance of the Forests

    c. Master Harold and the Boys  d. Kongi’s Harvest

 104. In which year was The Lion and the Jewel published?

     a.1963   b.1953  c.1983  d. 1962

105. Which tradition is evident in The Lion and the Jewel?

     a. Bantu   b.Zulu   c. Dinka   d. Yoruba

106. The Lion and the Jewel is divided into _______ episodes.

      a.4      b. 2   c. 3     d. 5

107. The story of The Lion and the Jewel occurs in _________  day(s).

     a. 3   b.4   c.5   d. 1

108. The locale of the play The Lion and the Jewel is __________.

     a. Ndotsheni       b. Lokossa     c. Kandi    d. Ilujinle

109. What is Lakunle teaching to his pupils?

     a. physics    b. tables   c. chemistry   d. decimals

110. Which character is considered as the lion in The Lion and the Jewel?

     a. Baroka b. Lakunle   c. Sidi     d.Sadiku

111. Which character is considered as the jewel in The Lion and the Jewel?

     a. Baroka b. Lakunle   c. Sidi    d.Sadiku

112. Who was the ‘stranger’ in The Lion and the Jewel?

     a. Baroka        b. Lakunle   c. the white traveller d. Ailatu

113. Lakunle wanted to marry ______________ .

     a. Sadiku    b. Sidi     c. Ailatu   d.Okiki

114. What did Lakunle describe as a savage custom?

     a. melting pot    b. respecting elders      c. bride-price     d. eating kola nuts

115. The traveller took the photographs of _______________.

     a. Lakunle b. Okiki    c. Sidi    d.Sadiku

116. The play takes place in an African village built around a large ________   tree.

a.neem   b. odan     c. acacia      d.Akume

117. The Odan tree is meant to represent ________________

a. victory         b. rebirth      c. traditional authority   d. death

 118. Who was Baroka’s father?
     a. Okiki     b. Obimafo    c. Sango    d. Balelo

119. Why did Lakunle ask Sidi not to carry the pot on her head?

     a. affect Lakunle’s love   b. manly    c. ugly     d. bad for the spine

120. How did the people of Ilujinle call Lakunle?

     a. gentleman     b. mad man    c. friend    d. wrestler

121. Baroka proposed to print Sidi’s picture ___________.

     a. in a magazine     b. on a stamp     c. in a newspaper      d. in a Textbook

122. Why were Baroka’s servants absent when Sidi visited his palace?

     a. Feast Day       b. festival      c. weekly holiday    d. Boycotted

123. In the mime, what role did Lakunle play?

     a. teacher    b. photographer     c. doctor   d. drunkard

 124. Who was the Bale of Ilujinle?

      a. Baroka   b. Lakunle   c.Sidi   d. Sadiku

125. Who was the Belle of Ilujinle?

      a. Sadiku    b. Sidi     c. Ailatu    d.Okiki

126. In the play within the play, who played the role of the stranger?

      a.Baroka   b.Lakunle   c.Sidi    d.Sadiku

127. What was the name of the senior wife of Baroka?

      a. Sadiku    b. Sidi     c. Ailatu  d. Gertrude

128. Every woman who had supper with Baroka ends up being a_______.

       a. servant      b. friend c. daughter       d. wife

129. Who has been entrusted with the task of getting Sidi as Baroka’s wife?

      a. Gertrude    b. Sidi     c. Ailatu   d. Sadiku

130. Who said that ‘women have a smaller brain than men’?

      a.Baroka   b.Lakunle   c.Sidi    d.Sadiku

131. What is meant by ‘one-eyed box’?

      a. television    b. radio     c. camera     d. doll

132. Who rode on ‘the devil’s own horse’?

     a. Baroka      b. Lakunle      c. The stranger      d. Sadiku

133. Where did Baroka’s image find in the book?

     a. cover page    b. center page   c. last page   d.corner

134. Who is called ‘the twinkle of a jewel’?

     a. Gertrude    b. Sidi     c. Ailatu   d. Sadiku

135. Who is seen at the end of the episode ‘Morning’?

      a. Baroka      b. Lakunle      c. The stranger      d. Sadiku

136. Who is the first African writer to win the Noble Prize for Literature?

      a. Nadine Gordimer  b.Wole Soyinka  c. Gabriel Okara  d.Chinua Achebe

137 Sidisays, “I am young and brimming; he is spent” It is about ___________.

      a. Baroka’s poverty b. Baroka’s old age c. Baroka’s appearance d. Baroka’s loss of virility

138. ____________is a familiar and older tradition in African society.

      a. polygamy     b monogamy  c. widowhood   d. Rakhi custom

139. “My love is selfless – the love of spirit, Not of flesh” Who said to whom?

    a. Baroka to Sidi     b. Baroka to Sadiku    c. Lakunle to Sidi   d. Lakunle to Sadiku

140. Who would not keep secrets with her according to Baroka?

      a. Sidi    b. Lakunle    c.Sadiku       d. Ailatu

141. What are the changes Lakunle envisages for Ilujinle?

      a. No Bride price   b. Monogamy    c. modern amenities   d. all the three

142. Why did Sadiku ask Sidi to join the victory dance?

     a. madness  b. No Bride-price   c. death of Okiki     d. Baroka – no longer a man

143. What did Sidi demand from Lakunle to marry her?

     a. romance  b. Bride-price   c. western dresses   d. the one-eyed box

144. What did Sadiku suggest Lakunle to pay the Bride- price?

  a. get the money from Baroka b. Take a farm for a season c. kill Baroka    d. sell his farm

145. How many men are engaged in wrestling at Baroka’s palace?

      a. Four    b. six c. two    d. ten

146. What does ‘a savage custom, barbaric, out-dated rejected…..’ refer to?

      a. traditional customs  b. traditional religion  c. carrying of pots   d. paying of bride-price

147. Who was Baroka’s father?

       a. Okiki   b. Obimafo    c. Sango    d. Balelo

148. Who is the supreme God of all in Yoruba society?

      a. Shango  b. Olodumure    c.Tunde      d.Ogun

149. How did Baroka prevent the laying of the railroad?

      a. frightened the prisoners b. bribed the surveyor

       c. sat on the track  d. (a) & (b) are correct

150 .Sidi went to Baroka’s palace because _____________.

       a. She wanted to kill him b. She wanted to taunt him

       c. She was in love with him. d. She wanted to dance him.

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