TOPFAITH UNIVERSITY,MKPATAK

CENTRE FOR GENERAL AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP STUDIES

2021/2022 BETA SEMESTER EXAMINATION

YEAR: 100Level
COURSETITLE/CODE&CREDITS: (2Credit Units)
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer ALL questions. For objective questions, please write the correct
answer from the options lettered A to D in the answer column. For
subjective questions, please write the correct answer. Writing out an
answer where one of the options lettered A to D is required or vice
versa attracts a zero score.
TIME ALLOWED: 1Hour
TOTAL MARKS: 70% (Each question carries 1mark)

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S/N QUESTION ANSWER

1
To put your head in the sand.
(a) To bury your head in the sand
(b) To put sand on your head
(c) To hide from the obvious signs of danger
(d) To play with sand
2 Digging around
(a) Looking at
(b) Looking in
(c) Looking up to
(d) Looking for
3 Hard to swallow
(a) Difficult to believe
(b) Impossible to swallow
(c) Easy to swallow
(d) Simple to swallow
4 He kicked to bucket
(a) He kicked an iron bucket
(b)He died
(c) He loves kicking buckets
(d) He is a footballer
5 He’s hitting the books
(a) He’s studying hard
(b) He loves hitting the books
(c) He is violent
(d) He is hitting the books very hard
6 One step at a time
(a) Do things very fast
(b) Do things in a hurry
(c) Do something slowly or carefully
(d) Do things the way you like
7 To move at snail’s pace

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 (a) To move fast (
b) To move like a snail
(c)To move slowly
(d) To move small small
8 Time is money
(a) Time is cash
(b) Time is fast
(c) Time is liquid gold
(d)Time is valuable resource
9 To chew something over
(a) To chew candy
(b) To chew gum
(c)To think about something
(d) To chew like a goat
10 The Cold War
(a)War without active fighting between nations
(b) War fought in cold nations
(c) Easy to win war
(d) Call of duty
11 The poor girl lost her rich father when she was 7 years old.
(a) broke
(b) hungry
(c)unlucky
(d) rude
12 Ali’s parent is so poor that he could not pay his tuition.
(a) rich
(b) ugly
(c)lacking money
(d) uneducated
13 The Super Falcons defender was on the bench during the match between
Nigeria and Ghana.
(a) wooding chair
(b) long bench
(c) reserve player
(d) standing on the bench
14 John earns a fat salary.
(a) small salary
(b) lots of money
(c) a salary that is fat
(d) tiny money
15 Bassey is a hard man.
(a) stubborn
(b) strong
(c) thick
(d) weak
16 I saw Tolu Amusan, the Nigerian who won a gold medal and her teacher
yesterday.
(a) instructor
(b) player
(c) guardian
(d) mentor
17 The strong man saved the girl who was drowning.
(a) weak
(b) courageous
(c) coward
(d) strongest
18 James shouted when he saw his father return from America.
(a) afraid

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 (b) was amazed
(c) crying
(d) sad
19 A parasite contributed to Edet’s misfortune when he worked in the bank.
(a) disease
(b) one that clings
(c) malaria
(d) fever
20 Emeka had to end the pain of his sick very old grandfather.
(a) kill
(b) heal
(c) improve
(d) destroy.
21 Composition can be defined as the method of __________________
(a) composing songs
(b) bringing ideas together and arranging them to achieved unity
(c) joining letter together
(d) composition of things together.
22 Which is not a type of composition?
(a) description
(b) exposition
(c) preposition
(d) argumentation
23 Is critical thinking important before writing any composition?
(a) no
(b) yes
(c) all of the above
(d) none of the above
24 Is an outline necessary when writing a composition?
(a) all of the above
(b) none of the above
(c) yes
(d) no
25 One of the important aspect of communication skill is _................
(a) listening
(b) thinking
(c) meditating
(d) observation
26 What communication skill do we need to communicate our idea on paper as
students of Topfaith University?
(a) speaking
(b) listening
(c) writing
(d) reading
27 What skill is needed during an interview on national television?
(a) reading
(b) writing
(c) speaking
(d) thinking
28 ______________ is the smallest meaningful grammatical unit of a word that
cannot be further divided.
(a) syntax
(b) grammar
(c) semantics
(d) morpheme
29 __________ and _________ are two types of morphemes.
(a) free and strong

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 (b) bound and bold
(c) free and bound
(d) small and big

30 _____________ is the L2 language spoken in Nigeria.

(a)French
(b) German
(c) Efik
(d) English

31 Indicate the correct free morphemes (Questions 31-35)

(a) drank
(b) unhappy
(c) I
(d) uphold
32 (a) going
(b) go
(c) display
(d) all of the above
33 (a) locked
(b) locks
(c) lock
(d) locking
34 (a) boy
(b) boys
(c) boyed
(d) boyz
35 (a) eat
(b)eating
(c) eats
(d) none of the above
36 Indicate the correct bound morphemes (Questions 36-40)
(a) unmask
(b) mask
(c) mark
(d) mass
37 (a) unity
(b) disunity
(c) booked
(d) b and c
38 (a) killed
(b) disunite
(c) all of the above
(d) dismiss
39 (a) disagree
(b) lock
(c) it
(d) man
40 (a)sit
(b)sat
(c) sit
(d) looked
41 ................. is used at the end of a declarative sentence or included after
abbreviations and initials.
(a) preposition
(b) noun

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 (c) period
(d) semicolon
42 .............. functions within sentences to indicate a pause and also to separate
elements that have several conventional uses.
(a) period
(b) colon
(c) the comma
(d) interjection
43 ................ separated elements containing commas, separates compound
sentences and joins sentences without conjunction.
(a) question mark
(b) semicolon
(c) conjunction
(d) period
44 _____________ introduces a list, illustrations and to quote an author in an
academic paper.
(a) semicolon
(b) colon
(c) pronoun
(d) comma
45 _............. ends punctuation for a question.
(a) colon
(b) question mark
(c) period
(d) exclamation mark
46 __________ is used to indicating emotional expressions such as surprise or
after an emphatic statement.
(a) quotation mark
(b) exclamation mark
(c) hyphen
(d) none of the above
47 _.............. divides at the syllable level and also to indicating compound
words.
(a) hyphen
(b) period
(c) comma
(d) colon
48 .............. enclosed information that deviates from the main course and are
used to enclosing information inserted into quotation.
(a) colon
(b) period
(c) exclamation mark
(d) bracket

49 ____________ indicates word, phrase, sentence that has been lifted

verbatim from the original.
(a) bracket
(b) double quotation
(c) comma
(d) semicolon
50 ………….. indicates deliberate omission or contraction of letter or numbers.
(a) colon (
b) apostrophe
(c) exclamation mark
(d) question mark
51 …………… represents the speaker’s exact thoughts or words.
(a) indirect speech
(b) direct speech

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 (c) inappropriate speech
(d) all of the above
52 …………… paraphrase the speaker’s words.
(a) normal speech
(b) inappropriate speech
(c) direct speech
(d) indirect speech
53 Mike said, “I had completed the task before she arrived.”
(a) speech
(b) appropriate speech
(c) direct speech
(d) indirect speech
54 She asked if Ekpo and his children will visit next week.
(a) direct speech
(b) indirect speech
(c) abstract speech
(d) proposed speech
55 Mary said, “You must eat the apple.”
(a) direct speech
(b) indirect speech
(c) none of the above
(d) abstract speech
56 “My daughter will be five next week Monday.” She said.
(a) indirect speech
(b) direct speech
(c) common speech
(d) normal speech
57 He told the pharmacist, “It never happened.” (a) wrong speech
(b) direct speech
(c) indirect speech
(d) normal speech.
58 Tom insisted that she must come to church.
(a) indirect speech
(b) abstract speech
(c) direct speech
(d) abnormal speech
59 Mr. Andrew promised to help John.
(a) direct speech
(b) indirect speech
(c) normal speech
(d) abnormal speech
60 “Will Ali and his children come back tonight?” I asked.
(a) wrong speech
(b) indirect speech
(c) direct speech
(d) incorrect speech
61 …………. is the major character in Achebe’s Arrow of God.
(a) Okonkwo
(b) Amada
(c) Ezeulu
(d) Chinedu
62 What is the sacred animal in the novel that must never be killed?
(a) dog
(b) cat
(c) python
(d) goat
63 ___________ is the Chief priest of Ulu.

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 (a) Ezinne
(b) Chika
(c) Ezeulu
(d) Ada

64 ……….._ is one of the themes in Achebe’s Arrow of God.

(a) gossip
(b) love
(c) religious conflict
(d) crime
66 Ezeulu sent ___________ to be educated in a missionary school.
(a) Obinna
(b) Oduche
(c) Adaku
(d) Olua
67 _........... is Ezeulu’s enemy (protagonist) in the novel.
(a) Nwaka
(b) Obi
(c) Emeka
(d) none of the above
68 This British colonial authority wanted Ezeulu to become their ……..
(a) slave
(b)bodyguard
(c) warrant chief
(d) master
69 Umuaro was at war with ________ .(a) Okpa
(b) Mkpatak
(c) Okperi
(d) God

70 __________ is a British colonial officer in Arrow of God.

(a) Jack
(b) Andrew
(c) John
(d) Winterbottom

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