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The following questions are based on Khadijat Abubakar Jalli's novel, "The Life Changer"

QUESTION 1
What did the author of the book study?

A. B.Sc (Ed) Mathematics

B. B.A English Language
C. B.A Literary Studies
D. BSc Political Science

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QUESTION 2

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The book described Talle as a?

A. The precious child

B. The quiet one
C. The friendly child
D. the holy child 4
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QUESTION 3
Who was Omar's immediate sister?
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A. Ummi
B. Omar
C. Salma
D. Teemah
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QUESTION 4
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Ummi's husband wanted to study law but the providence chose that he study _____

A. commerce
B. accounting
C. law
D. history

QUESTION 5
The full meaning of IPO is ______

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 A. Independent Police Officer
B. International Police Officer
C. Investigating Police Officer
D. Investigative Police Officer

QUESTION 6
What is Ummi's Occupation?

A. Trader
B. Teacher

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C. Business woman
D. Nurse

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QUESTION 7
What is Ummi Matric Number?

A. UG0001 4
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B. UG00001
C. UG001
D. UG0011
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QUESTION 8
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What is full meaning of EMEC

A. Examination Malpractice and Ethics Committee

B. Examining Malpractice and Ethics Committee
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C. Examination Malpractice and Ethics Convention

D. Examination Management and Ethics Committee
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QUESTION 9
What is the full name of Salma?

A. Salma Mohammed
B. Salma Johnson
C. Salma Samuel
D. Salma Ahmed

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QUESTION 10
Who was the narrator of the life changer?

A. Salma
B. Ummi
C. Omar
D. Bint

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How old is Bint ?

A. 6 years old

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B. 4 years old
C. 5 years old
D. 7 years old

QUESTION 12
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What question did Bint ask her teacher?

A. How to say good morning

B. How to say what is your name
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C. How to say you're welcome

D. How to say that's very good
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Who were the people in the car?

A. Lawal and Labaran

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B. Habib and Labaran

C. Lawal and Kabir
D. Labara and Zarki

QUESTION 14
How much did Habib give Tomiwa personally?

A. Ten thousand naira

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 B. Five Thousand Naira
C. Thirty thousand naira
D. Twenty Thousand naira

QUESTION 15
How much did Tomiwa give her roommates?

A. Five thousand naira

B. Ten thousand Naira
C. Fifteen thousand Naira

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D. Twenty thousand naira

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QUESTION 16
What was Omar's JAMB exam?

A. 230
B. 250 4
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C. 220
D. 260

QUESTION 17
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What is the full meaning of the acronym EMAL

A. Examination Malpractice
B. Examination misconduct
C. Examination management
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D. Examination Manners
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QUESTION 18
Who introduced the snail delicacy?

A. Salma
B. Ngozi
C. Ada
D. Tomiwa

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QUESTION 19
"Nothing happened, My friend didn't feel like giving you her number so she gave you mine
instead" Who is the friend?

A. Salma
B. Ada
C. Tomiwa
D. Ngozi

QUESTION 20

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It might be said that there is some kind of sibling rivalry between

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A. Teemah and Bint
B. Teemah and Omar
C. Jamila and Omar
D. Jamila and Teemah

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QUESTION 21
One reason the narrator had the habit of entering her children's room unannounced was
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A. to monitor their hygiene and tidiness

B. to monitor their prayer life
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C. to check on their welfare

D. to keep them studying their books

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According to the story, one of the following is true

A. Tomiwa and Ngozi are neighbours

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B. Ada and Salma are course mates

C. Salma and Tomiwa are rivals
D. Salma and Tomiwa are roommates
May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks
and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dust green trees. Red bananas ripen.
Jackfruits burst. Dissolute blue bottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. Then they stun
themselves against clear windowpanes and die, fatly baffled in the sun. The nights are clear
but suffused with sloth and sullen expectations.

But by early June the southwest monsoon breaks and there are three months of wind and
water with short spells of sharp, glittering sunshine that thrilled children snatch to play with.

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The countryside turns an immodest green. Boundaries blur as tapioca fences take root and
bloom. Brick walls turn mossgreen. Pepper vines snake up electric poles. Wild creepers
burst through laterite banks and spilt across the flooded roads. Boats ply in the bazaars. And
small fish appear in the puddles that fill the PWD potholes on the highways. It was raining
when Rahel came
back to Ayemenem.

Slanting silver ropes slammed into loose earth, ploughing it up like gunfire. The old house on
the hill wore its steep, gabled roof pulled over its ears like a low hat. The walls, streaked with
moss, had grown soft and bulged a little with dampness that seeped up from the ground.
The wild, overgrown garden was full of the whisper and scurry of small lives.In the
undergrowth, a rat snake rubbed itself against a glistening stone. Hopeful yellow bullfrogs

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cruised the scummy pond for mates. A drenched mongoose flashed across the leaf-strewn
driveway. The house itself looked empty. The doors and windows were locked. The front
verandah bare. Unfurnished.

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But the sky blue Plymouth with chrome tail fins was still parked outside, and inside, Baby
Kochamma was still alive. She was Rahel's baby grand aunt, her grandfather's younger
sister. Her name was really Navomi, Navomi Ipe, but everybody called her Baby. She
became Baby Kochamma when she was old enough to be an aunt. Rahel hadn't come to
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Neither niece nor baby grandaunt laboured under any illusions on that account. Rahel had
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come to see her brother, Estha. They were two-egg twins. "Dizygotic’’ doctors called them.
Born from separate but simultaneously fertilised eggs. Estha Esthappen-was the older by 18
minutes.
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Early in which month did the southwest monsoon break?

A. August
B. May
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C. July
D. June
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QUESTION 24
What rubbed itself against a glistening stone?

A. plymouth
B. wild creepers
C. bullfrogs
D. rat snakes

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QUESTION 25
Rachel had come to see_______.

A. Estha
B. Kochamma
C. Navomi Ipe
D. no one

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What was Baby's real name?

​ A. Navomi Ipe
​ B. Estha

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​ C. Rachel
​ D. Kochamma

QUESTION 27
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From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that rhymes with the given word.
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Prison

​ A. rising
​ B. risen
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​ C. potion
​ D. motion
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QUESTION 28
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that rhymes with the given word.
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Crate

A. Great
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B. Mint
C. Creek
D. Treat

QUESTION 29
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that rhymes with the given word.

Phone

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B. grown
C. gown
D. brown

QUESTION 30
Choose the word that has a different stress pattern

A. embrace
B. suspect
C. member

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D. Project

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QUESTION 31
Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the
letter(s) underlined.

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A. lived
B. address
C. letter
D. match
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QUESTION 32
In each of the following sentences, the word that receives the emphatic stress is written in
capital letters. From the options lettered A to D, choose the appropriate answer.
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John's watch is made of GOLD.

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A. Whose watch is made of gold?

B. What is made of gold?
C. Is John's watch made of silver?
D. Is John's necklace made of gold?

QUESTION 33
In each of the following sentences, the word that receives the emphatic stress is written in
capital letters . From the options lettered A to D, choose the one which the sentence is the
appropriate answer.

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She WORKS at the hospital.

A. Who works at the hospital?

B. Where does she work?
C. Does she work at the hospital?
D. What does she do at the hospital?

QUESTION 34
In each of the following sentences, the word that receives the emphatic stress is written in
capital letters . From the options lettered A to D, choose the one which the sentence is the

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appropriate answer.

Aderonke STATED she had a right to her privacy.

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A. Did Aderonke lament she had a right to her privacy?
B. Did Omowunmi state she had a right to her privacy?
C. Did Aderonke state she had a right to his privacy?
D. Did Aderonke state she had a right to her openness?
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QUESTION 35
Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the
letter(s) underlined.
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A. sugar
B. raise
C. glass
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D. tree
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QUESTION 36
Identify the word that has the stress on the first syllable

A. Hotel
B. Esteem
C. Police
D. Table

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QUESTION 37
From the options lettered A-D, choose the option that is most nearly opposite in meaning to
the underlined word.

Twice, he was repulsed with heavy losses

A. repelled
B. gratified
C. irated
D. shocked

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QUESTION 38

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I only visited Chidi. This means that

A. None of the above

B. I didn't do anything asides visiting Chidi
C. I didn't go with anyone to visit Chidi
D. I visited Chidi and his friends 4
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QUESTION 39
From the options lettered A-D, choose the option that is most nearly opposite in meaning to
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the underlined word.

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My father is parsimonious

A. thrifty
B. ungenerous
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C. frugal
D. generous
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QUESTION 40
From the options lettered A-D, choose the option that is most nearly opposite in meaning to
the underlined word.

Last Easter was an austere period.

A. harsh
B. severe
C. prosperous
D. sour

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QUESTION 41
Choose the word that has a different stress pattern

A. Project
B. Basic
C. Suspect
D. Neglect

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QUESTION 42
Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the

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letter(s) underlined.

foot

A. live
B. vegetable 4
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C. traffic
D. Of

QUESTION 43
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Choose the option that has a different vowel sound from the others

A. here
B. beer
C. idea
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D. head
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QUESTION 44
Choose the option that has a different vowel sound from the others

A. beach
B. ski
C. be
D. been

Read the following passage and answer the questions below:

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Christopher Marlowe, the son of Marlowe who is described as the clerk of St Mary's in the
city of Canterbury, was born in 1564. He received his early education at The King's School in
that city. He took the degrees of B.A. and M.A. in 1583 and 1587 respectively from
Cambridge University. He started writing poems and became a renowned dramatist in the
Admiral's Company.

Marlowe is known as one of the university wits, a group of dramatists along with Robert
Greene, Thomas Nash, and George Peele. Marlowe is considered the greatest precursor to
Shakespeare. When Marlowe came upon the English stage, the nature of drama was
undeveloped. The verses in the dramas were lifeless. But Marlowe gave English drama an
appropriate meter, diction, and method. It is really a matter of speculation what kind of
greatness he would have achieved if his life had not been terminated (C++) in a duel after a

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brawl in a tavern (inn).

The literary life of Marlowe had a short span, from 1587 to 1593. During this period, he wrote

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five plays which were all tragedies as he had no comic vein. His tragedies like Dr Faustus,
The Jew of Malta, and Edward Il are rated as some of the best works of the Elizabethan age.
He also wrote an unfinished poem Hero and Leander and translated some parts of Ovid's (a
Roman Poet) elegies.

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Marlowe's subjects are mostly heroic which appeals to the imagination of the play-goers. His
heroes epitomize the spirit of the Renaissance. Each of them embodies a passion and tries
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to achieve lies in his development of the blank verse. He put it at any cost. But Marlowe's
chief contribution aside from the old rhyming lines then employed in the plays and used
blank verse. Thus, the language of drama was brought closer to real life and drama was
made ready for Shakespeare (1564-1616) to improve upon it. It is rightly said, "No Marlowe,
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no Shakespeare".
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When did Christopher Marlowe get his first degree?
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A. 1587
B. 1583
C. 1593
D. 1564
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QUESTION 46
How long was Christopher Marlowe's literary life?

A. 6 years
B. 60 years
C. 10 years
D. 5 years

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QUESTION 47
My account with the bank is in the red. This means that my account is

A. heavy
B. in danger
C. overdrawn
D. written in red ink

QUESTION 48

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Fill in the gap with the option that best completes the sentence.

Between you and _____, he is a liar.

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A. all of the above
B. me
C. I
D. none of the above
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QUESTION 49
Fill in the gap with the option that best completes the sentence.
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The secretary and treasurer did not do ____ job.

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A. their
B. all of the above
C. none of the above
D. his
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QUESTION 50
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Fill in the gap with the option that best completes the sentence.

If James fails his examination, his teachers, his parents, his friends, or I ______ to blame.

A. are
B. is
C. am
D. not

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QUESTION 51
Fill in the gap with the option that best completes the sentence.

I have always found that it is helpful to have a few wise and trusted people to ________ you
can turn to for information and advice.

A. whom
B. who
C. whose
D. that

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Fill in the gap with the option that best completes the sentence.

We ought to stay away ______ the robbers come back

A. provided
B.
C.
should in case
although
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D. in case

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It was _____ who killed the goat.

A. his
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C. he
D. us
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QUESTION 54
From the options lettered A-D, choose the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined
word.

Bankole is upset as his wife does not understand his predicament .

A. sadness
B. dilemma
C. deadlock

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QUESTION 55
From the options lettered A-D, choose the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined
word.

It is wise not to depend on mundane things.

A. imported
B. material

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D. expensive

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QUESTION 56
From the options lettered A-D, choose the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined
word.
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Now that the company is insolvent , it will shut down.

A. overworked
B. unstable
C. bankrupt
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D. affluent
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QUESTION 57
Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the
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A. think
B. teacher
C. breathe
D. Watched

QUESTION 58
Pick out the option with a different rhyme

A. Roar

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C. Growl
D. Bore

QUESTION 59
Choose the word that has the same rhyme

Watch

A. none of the above

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B. botch
C. catch
D. Match

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QUESTION 60
Choose the option that has the same stress pattern as the given word.
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A. Refuse(noun)
B. Propose
C. Rebel(Verb)
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