32 questions. Try each one, then open the answer to check yourself and read the explanation.
The speaker is
Answer: B (Duke)
In the council chamber the Duke of Venice comforts Brabantio, urging him to accept Othello and Desdemona's marriage since the grief cannot be undone.
He is responding to
Answer: D (Brabantio)
The Duke is answering Brabantio, who is angry that Desdemona has married Othello.
The setting is
Answer: A (a council chamber)
Act 1 Scene 3 takes place in the Venetian council chamber, where the Duke and senators meet.
These lovers refers to
Answer: D (Othello and Desdemona.)
The Duke is speaking of the newly married Othello and Desdemona.
The expression "Lay a sentence" means
Answer: C (give advice)
A 'sentence' here is a wise saying; the Duke offers a maxim as advice to help Brabantio accept the marriage.
Questions 6 and 7 are based on Amma Darko's Faceless. One of the themes in Faceless is
Answer: A (parental irresponsibility)
Maa Tsuru and the fathers fail their children, who end up on the streets; parental neglect is central to the novel.
In Amma Darko's Faceless, Dina and Kabria hold a confidential talk with
Answer: C (Fofo)
Dina and Kabria of MUTE talk privately with Fofo to learn what happened to her sister Baby T.
Questions 10 and 11 are based on Richard Wright's Native Son. The lady of the house Mrs. Thomas is woken up from her sleep by the clanging of an alarm clock, she shouts orders at her sons
Answer: D (Bigger and Buddy.)
The novel opens with Mrs Thomas waking her sons Bigger and Buddy in their one-room Chicago flat.
In Richard Wright's Native Son, while assisting Mary, Bigger experiences mixed feelings of
Answer: B (admiration and hate)
Bigger is drawn to rich, friendly Mary, yet resents and hates her careless familiarity across the colour line.
Questions 12 and 13 are based on Frank Ogecche's Harvest of Corruption. Aloho has discovered that she is pregnant for chief, downcast, she sobs ________ consoles her
Answer: B (Ogeyi)
Ogeyi, Aloho's loyal Christian friend, comforts her when she finds she is pregnant.
In Frank Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption, the police commissioner plays down on the cocaine matter saying "the court as you rightly said has handled it. What does "it" refers to?
Answer: D (cocaine matter.)
The commissioner is brushing aside the cocaine matter, saying the court has already dealt with it.
Questions 14 and 15 are based on Dele Charley's The Blood of a Stranger. The mission of the white man is revealed and Soko is enlisted into the
Answer: B (game plan)
Once the stranger's real aim (the diamonds) is revealed, Soko is drawn into his game plan.
In Dele Charley's The Blood of a Stranger, Kindo returns to find Maligu and queries him for giving
Answer: A (gin drink and evil smelling tobacco)
Kindo challenges Maligu over the gin and tobacco handed out, the stranger's bribes to the village.
Questions 16 and 17 are based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer. She stoops to conquer is a play based on
Answer: C (laughing comedy)
Goldsmith wrote it as a 'laughing comedy' in reaction to the sentimental comedies of his day.
In Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, Tony steals the casket containing Constance's
Answer: B (Jewels)
Tony takes Constance's jewels from his mother's keeping to help her elope with Hastings.
Questions 18 to 20 are based on Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. The title of A Raisin in the Sun comes from the Poem
Answer: A (Harlem)
The title comes from Langston Hughes's poem 'Harlem': 'What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?'
In A Raisin in the Sun, on a friday night a few weeks later, packing boxes filled the younger apartment in preparation for the move to their new house in a
Answer: A (white neighbourhood)
Mama has bought a house in Clybourne Park, an all-white neighbourhood.
One of the themes in A Raisin in the Sun is
Answer: D (right and choice.)
The Youngers fight for the right to choose where and how they live, and each character must make choices about the insurance money.
Questions 21 - 25 are based on poems of black Africa. The lines above illustrates,
Answer: C (synecdoche)
'Eyes', 'ear' and 'heart' stand for whole people who might watch and listen: parts used for the whole, i.e. synecdoche.
These illustrate
Answer: B (metaphor)
The anvil, hammer and forging house stand for the forces that shape and batter the poet's people: they are metaphors.
In piano and drums, the poem is a reflection on the impossibility of living two different
Answer: C (cultures)
Okara's speaker is torn between the African drums and the Western piano, two cultures he cannot reconcile.
Questions 26 - 30 are based on The Penguin book of English Verse, The Golden Treasury of longer Poems, English Romantic Verse and A Pageant of longer poems. In Alfred Tennyson "Crossing the Bar the major themes are
Answer: A (death and hope)
Tennyson faces death calmly and hopes to see his 'Pilot face to face' once he has crossed the bar.
Robert frost's "Birches portrays that life can be hard for
Answer: C (adult)
The adult speaker, weary of life's 'pathless wood', longs to escape for a while as he did swinging birches as a boy.
In the 'School Boy' the poem is an example of ________ that is, a poem written in the form of a speech or statement made by individual character
Answer: A (dramatic monologue)
The poem is spoken entirely by one character, the boy, so it is a dramatic monologue.
'The pulley' is a religious metaphysical poem by
Answer: B (George Herbert)
The Pulley is by George Herbert, the 17th-century metaphysical poet.
One of the themes in 'The Proud King' is
Answer: B (pride and the vanity of material wealth)
The proud king is humbled to show how empty pride and worldly power are.
Literary Principles 31 - 40. A character who remains unchanged in a work of art is called
Answer: A (a flat character)
A flat character stays the same from beginning to end; a round character develops.
The figure of speech in which a poet implicity compares an object or idea with another totally different object or idea is called a
Answer: D (metaphor.)
A metaphor compares two unlike things without 'like' or 'as', so the comparison is implicit.
A figure of speech in which an absent person or an object is addressed as if present is referred to as
Answer: C (apostrophe)
Apostrophe is speaking directly to someone absent or dead, or to a thing.
The literary term which describes the angle at which a writer tells his story is
Answer: A (point of view)
Point of view is the position from which a story is told, e.g. first person or third person.
An inherent quality of the lyric is that it must
Answer: D (express the Poet's subjective emotions.)
A lyric is a short poem expressing the poet's personal feelings.
In literary criticism, a casual reference to a figure is
Answer: D (allusion.)
An allusion is a brief, passing reference to a person, place or event outside the text.