Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet,

The major role of Mercutio in the play is to

• A. serve as a contrast to Romeo
• B. accompany Romeo to Friar Lawrence
• C. aid and abet Romeo's passion
• D. annoy Tybalt

This question is based on Literary Principles.

Going up the river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. '

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.

The landscape described in the passage above is

• A. formidable
• B. friendly
• C. hostile
• D. overpowering

Read the extract below and answer the following questions

Speaker X: Thou runaway, thou coward,

art thou fled?

Speak! In some bush? Where dost thou hide thy head?

Speaker Y: Thou coward, art thou bragging to the stars,

Telling the bushes that thou look'st for wars,

And wilt not come? Come, recreant, come, thou child;

I'll whip thee with a rod. He is defiled

That draws a sword on thee.

(Act III, Scene Two, Lines 405 - 411)

Speaker Y's speech can be described as

• A. cowardly
• B. solemn
• C. taunting
• D. silly

A long story narrating a series of complicated events is called a

• A. harrangue
• B. discourse
• C. monologue
• D. saga

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

Read the extract and answer the question

It is here,......thou art slain;

No medicine in the world can do thee good,

In thee there is not half an hour of life;

The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,

Unbated and envenom d: the foul practice

Hath turn'd itself on me; lo; here I lie,

(Act 5, Scene Two, Lines 298-303)

The addresses later

• A. kills himself
• B. sleeps off
• C. runs away
• D. arrived

This question is based on General literacy principles

The repetition of single words or phrases at the beginning of lines is

• A. parallelism
• B. assonance
• C. alliteration
• D. pun

The sequence of beats in a poem is its

• A. rhythm
• B. rhyme
• C. irony
• D. personification

The writer's attitude is one of ________

• A. anger
• B. indifference
• C. sympathy
• D. mockery

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice

Read the extract below and answer the question

If I can catch him once upon the hip,

I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

He hates our sacred nation, and he rails,

Even there where merchants most do congregate,

On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift,

Which he calls interest;......

(Act 1 Scene Three, lines 39-)

From the extract the speaker is

• A. kind
• B. tricky
• C. vindictive
• D. angry

This question is based on Literary Appreciation

He was an odd-looking duck, Inman was.

He was in his mid-fifties but still had a head of thick black hair, which began low on his forehead and was slicked back over his small round.

He seemed to be made of a series of balls piled one atop the other.

Tom Wolfe: A Man in Full

The author's attitude to inman in the passage above is one of

• A. ridicule
• B. praise
• C. hatred
• D. admiration