26 questions. Try each one, then open the answer to check yourself and read the explanation.
Questions 1 - 5 are based on selected poems of Africa. The statement above implies
Answer: A (danger)
Dinner arriving 'with gun wounds' and pepper as 'vegetable blood' bring war into the meal: the lines point to danger and violence.
Gabriel Okara's Piano and Drums. The poem is a reflection on the impossibility of living two different
Answer: D (cultures)
The speaker is torn between African drums and the Western piano, two cultures he cannot live in at once.
One of the themes is found in "Vanity"
Answer: A (pain and misery)
Diop's poem is full of the sad, complaining cries of those who have lost their roots: pain and misery.
In "Ambush", the land is a giant whale. This implies a
Answer: B (metaphor)
Saying the land is a whale, without 'like' or 'as', is a metaphor.
Questions 6 - 10 are based on the longer poems. In William Morris' "The Proud King". The rhyme scheme for the seven line stanzas is consistent, it is
Answer: B (ababbcc)
The seven-line stanzas follow rhyme royal, rhyming ababbcc.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day is an example of
Answer: A (sonnet)
It is Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, a fourteen-line poem.
In William Blake's poem "The school boy", the mental picture created in the mind of the reader is of a
Answer: B (little boy)
The speaker is a little boy who would rather be outside on a summer morning than in school.
The expression above implies
Answer: C (personification)
The sandbar 'moaning' and the tide that 'seems asleep' are given human actions: personification.
Question 11 is based on Amma Darko's Faceless. Faceless centres on the life of a
Answer: B (fourteen-year-old girl)
The novel centres on fourteen-year-old Fofo, a street girl in Accra.
Question 12 is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days. Yaremi's enemies increased because of her refusal to select one of the three suitors at the
Answer: B (Cap picking ceremony)
At the cap-picking ceremony a widow chooses a new husband by picking a suitor's cap; Yaremi refuses, angering the suitors.
In "Lonely Days", Kufi women are very
Answer: D (industrious)
The women of Kufi work hard at trading, farming and crafts to support themselves.
Richard Wright's "Native son", Bigger accuses Gus of being afraid to rob
Answer: C (Blum)
Bigger, himself afraid, picks a fight with Gus and accuses him of being scared to rob Blum's shop.
In Native Son, Bigger kills and throws Mary Dalton's remains in the
Answer: C (furnace)
Bigger burns Mary's body in the Daltons' basement furnace.
In Harvest of Corruption, Chief Ade Haladu's crimes are made known to him in a
Answer: C (court of law)
Chief Haladu's corrupt deeds are exposed when he is tried in court at the end of the play.
Question 19 is based on Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun". Mama comes home and announces that she has put a down payment on a house with some of the
Answer: B (Insurance money)
Mama uses part of the $10,000 insurance cheque from her husband's death as a down payment on a house.
Question 20 is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer. Tony steals the casket containing
Answer: D (Constance's Jewels)
Tony takes Constance's jewels from his mother so that she and Hastings can elope with them.
Who made the above speech?
Answer: C (Bianca)
Bianca angrily throws the handkerchief back at Cassio, suspecting it came from another woman.
Who responded to the speech?
Answer: B (Cassio)
Bianca's words are aimed at Cassio, who answers her.
Where is the setting?
Answer: A (Cyprus before the castle)
The handkerchief scene with Bianca (Act 4 Scene 1) takes place in Cyprus, before the castle, while Othello watches.
The handkerchief the speaker mentioned belongs to
Answer: A (Othello)
It is Othello's handkerchief, his first gift to Desdemona, which Iago planted in Cassio's room.
In William Shakespeare's Othello, Prithee, come will you? Who made the above speech?
Answer: B (Cassio)
After Bianca storms off, Cassio says this to Iago as he goes after her.
The above speech was made by
Answer: D (Roderigo)
Roderigo says this as he waits to ambush Cassio in Act 5, persuaded by Iago's arguments.
The speech was directed to
Answer: B (Lago)
Roderigo's lines refer to Iago, who has given him the 'satisfying reasons' to kill Cassio.
The setting is
Answer: A (Cyprus, A Street)
Act 5 Scene 1, where Roderigo waits to attack Cassio, is set in a street in Cyprus.
Who made the above speech?
Answer: B (Desdemona)
Desdemona says this while anxiously waiting for Othello's ship, hiding her fear by joking with Iago.
Literary Principles 31 - 40. A literary work in which the characters and events are used as symbols is known as
Answer: B (allegory)
In an allegory characters and events stand for ideas, giving a second meaning.