Unseen Passages
GCE Literature in English
12 Unseen Passages practice questions covering everything you need for GCE.
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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. 'The old woman sat at the threshold of her mud house, her eyes fixed on the distant hills as though searching for something …
Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow. The Market Woman She rises before the cock, before the sun remembers its duty, and loads her basin with the weight of yams and…
Read the following passage and answer the question. 'The politician's speech was a honeyed trap. He promised roads where there was bush, hospitals where there was only dust, and schools where childre…
Read the following passage and answer the question. 'Chief Adeyemi had built his empire not on the sweat of honest labour but on the ruins of others. He smiled at funerals and wept at weddings, for j…
Read the following passage and answer the question. 'The river does not ask the stone why it is hard; it simply flows around it, patient and persistent, knowing that time is its greatest ally. So too…
Read the following passage and answer the question. 'She was, in the eyes of the village, a woman of no consequence — a widow who tilled a patch of land too small to feed ambition. But in the quiet h…
Read the following passage and answer the question. 'The harmattan wind swept across the dusty landscape, stripping the trees of their last stubborn leaves. Old Musa wrapped his agbada tightly around…
Read the following passage and answer the question. 'The examination hall was a battlefield without weapons. Each student bent over the question paper like a general studying a map of enemy territory…
Read the following passage and answer the question. 'Tunde's father had worked forty years for the company, rising from messenger boy to deputy manager. On the day of his retirement, they gave him a …
Read the following passage and answer the question. 'The new governor arrived in the state capital with promises stacked higher than the minaret of the central mosque. Within six months, the promises…
Read the following passage and answer the question. 'Brother Boniface preached fire and brimstone on Sundays, yet on Mondays his hands were deep in the church treasury. He thundered against corruptio…
Read the following passage and answer the question. 'Amaka stood at the threshold of the decaying building, her heart hammering against her ribs. The smell of damp walls and rotting wood filled her n…