This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

The play is concerned principally with

• A. presenting the problems of social class and British mannerism
• B. changing the traditional view about comedy in England
• C. the construction and handling of situations and incidents
• D. the presentation of a society without morals

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

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Tell me not (sweet) I am unkinde,

That from theNunnerie

of thy chaste breast and quiet minde,

To warre and Armes I flie.

True, a new Mistresse now I chase,

The first Foe in the field;

And with a stronger faith imbrace,

A Sword, a Horse, a Shield.

Yet thisInconstancy is such,

As you too shall adore;

I could not love thee (Deare) so much,

Lov'd I not Honour more.

The reference to ''......the Nunnerie of thy chaste breast'' suggests that the woman is being

• A. praised
• B. mocked
• C. scorned
• D. admired

''The lawyer addressed the bench'' illustrates

• A. metonymy
• B. alliteration
• C. simile
• D. oxymoron

Lineation refers to

• A. the arrangement of lines in verse form
• B. the grouping together of a number of units of rhythm
• C. the unit in the rhythmic structure of verse
• D. tracing family descent of poeple in verse

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

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If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,

Speak to me;

If there be any good thing to be done,

That may to thee do ease and grace to me,

Speak to me:

If thou art privy to the country's fate,

Which, happily foreknowing may avoid,

O, speak!

Or if thou has uphoarded in thy life,

Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,

For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death,

Speak of it;

(Act One, Scene I, lines 128 - 139)

The Speaker is

• A. Hamlet
• B. Marcellus
• C. Horatio
• D. Claudius

This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

'...How can I look at Oyo and say I hate long shiny cars? How can I come back to the children and despise international schools? And then Koomson comes, and the family sees Jesus Christ in him ...

The statement above reveals a feeling of

• A. despair
• B. envy
• C. alienation
• D. hope

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...... Lady, you arethe cruell'st she alive

if you will lead these graces to the grave

And leave the world no copy.

(Act 1, Scene 5)

What has prompted the speech?

• A. The lady is about to kill herself
• B. The speaker is unable to woo the lady
• C. The lady will not marry Orsino
• D. The lady is unforgiving

Read the extract below and answer question

X: I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again;

Mine ear is much enamoured of thy note;

So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;

And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me

On the first view, to say, to swear, I love thee.

Y: Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that: ...

(Act llI, Scene One, Lines 116-121)

Speaker Y is

• A. Quince
• B. Lysander
• C. Demetrius
• D. Bottom

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga D.I. (ed.): Weast African Verse.

In Cheney-Coker's Myopia, the attitude of the poet is one of

• A. sympathy
• B. joy
• C. empathy
• D. envy

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Prospero:Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated

In what thou hadst to say. So, with good life

And observation strange, my meaner ministers

Their several kinds have done. My high charms work,

And these,mine enemies are all knit up

In their distractions. They now are in my power;

And in these fits I leave them,....

(Act 111, scene three lines 85-91)

Prospero is speaking to

• A. Caliban
• B. Miranda
• C. Ferdinand
• D. Ariel