18 questions. Try each one, then open the answer to check yourself and read the explanation.
The poet's tone above can be described as
Answer: A (lamentative)
The questions about what would become of the flower and of beauty if the earth died or was left behind express sorrow at a possible loss: a lamenting tone.
These lines suggest that
Answer: A (Sidi is superior to the Bale)
Sidi, proud of her photographs, sees herself as the bright 'jewel' and Baroka as only the hind-quarters of the lion: she thinks she is superior to him.
In these lines the rhyming rabble refer to
Answer: A (the mummers who dance in mockery of the Bale's rumoured impotence)
The 'rhyming rabble' are the mummers whose song and dance mock the Bale's supposed loss of manhood.
The persona addresses his friends in Onu Chibuike's "A Government Driver on his Retirement" with
Answer: C (joy in his heart)
The retiring driver happily invites his friends to celebrate; he is glad to have finished his service alive, so he speaks with joy.
In Lade Wosornu's "Raider of the Treasure Trove", anger is said to cause
Answer: B (impediment in the journey of life)
The poem presents anger as a thief that robs a person of peace and goodwill, blocking progress on life's journey.
The mood of Oumar Farouk Sesay's "The song of the Women of my Land" is
Answer: C (sorrowful)
The poem mourns the suffering and hard lives of the women of the poet's land, so the mood is sorrowful.
Niyi Osundare's "The Leader and the Led" uses the word "Pack" as what figure of speech?
Answer: A (Synecdoche)
'Pack' stands for the whole group of animals (the led) by naming the collective, a part-for-whole kind of substitution the key treats as synecdoche.
The use of enjambment in John Donne's "The Good Morrow" emphasizes the
Answer: C (love as a perfect blend of two equal halves)
The run-on lines join thought to thought just as the poem joins the two lovers into one complete whole, like two matching hemispheres.
In Dylan Thomas's "Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night" the poet juxtaposes
Answer: B (life and death)
The poem sets life ('the light') against death ('that good night') and urges the dying father to rage against death.
The concern of the poet in "Binsey Poplars [felled 1879]" is
Answer: B (on preserving nature and its wholeness)
Hopkins grieves over the felling of the poplars and warns that careless human action destroys nature's wholeness.
The poet persona in T.S. Eliot's "Journey of the Magi" is
Answer: B (pessimistic)
The old Magus remembers a hard journey, feels uneasy among his people and says he would be glad of another death: his outlook is gloomy, not hopeful.
In D.H. Lawrence's 'BAT' the bat is presented as an object of
Answer: A (hatred)
The speaker is disgusted by the bats, calling them repulsive creatures 'not for me', so the bat is an object of hatred.
In Maya Angelou's "Caged Bird" the poet sees birds as
Answer: C (free creatures)
The poem sets the free bird, which floats and claims the sky, against the caged bird; birds by nature are free creatures.
William Shakespeare's The Midsummer Night's Dream: The play opens with the upcoming marriage of which couple?
Answer: B (Theseus and Hippolyta)
The first scene shows Duke Theseus of Athens looking forward to his wedding to Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons.
In William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, who says, "Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream".
Answer: C (Demetrius)
Demetrius says this when the lovers wake in the wood (Act 4 Scene 1), still confused about what happened in the night.
In William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, what is Puck also known as?
Answer: C (Robin Goodfella)
Puck is also called Robin Goodfellow, Oberon's mischievous fairy servant.
In Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, why did Hindley hate Heathcliff?
Answer: D (Hindley's father grew to love Heathcliff more than him.)
Old Mr Earnshaw favoured the adopted Heathcliff over his own son, which made Hindley jealous and bitter.
In Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, who is the primary narrator of the novel?
Answer: B (Nelly)
Lockwood opens the frame, but most of the story is told to him by the housekeeper Nelly Dean.