Section B: NON - AFRICAN DRAMA

OLIVER GOLDSMITH - SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER

Discuss the role of Tony Lumpkin in connection with any three mistakes in the play.

Read the extract below and answer the question

A : Will you stay no longer nor will you not that I go with you?

B : By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the Malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours;

therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone

(Act II Scene 1)

Speaker B requests Speaker A to

• A. be patient
• B. stay behind
• C. go back home
• D. pray for his friend

What basically distinguishes Literature from other disciplines is its

• A. use of creative imagination
• B. exposition of human experience
• C. communication of ideas
• D. portrayal of places

This question is based on Literary Appreciation

'But there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet powerfully, there was the conch. The being that had blown that, had sat waiting for them on the platform with the delicate thing balanced on his knees, was set apart. '

Golding, Lord of the Flies.

In the passage above, the conch symbolises

• A. bestiality
• B. authority
• C. dictatorship
• D. civilization

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the passage and answer the question

Here in the station, it is in no way different save that the city is busy in its snow. But the old men cling to their seats as though they were symbolic and could not be given up. Now and then they sleep, their grey old heads resting with painful awkwardnesson the backs of the benches. Also, they are not at rest. For an hour, they may sleep in thegasping exhaustion of the ill-nourished and aged, who have to walk in the night. Then, a policeman comes by on his round and nudges them upright. ''You can't sleep here'', he growls. A strange ritual then begins. An old man is difficult to wake. One man after a slight lurch does not move at all, he sleeps on steadily. Once in a while, one of the sleepers will not wake; he will have had his wish to die in the greatdroning centre of thehive rather than in some loney room fulfilled.

The style of writing is

• A. argumentative
• B. epistolary
• C. narrative
• D. expository

The character assumed by the author in his writing is

• A. protagonist
• B. chorus
• C. persona
• D. pseudonym

The mood of the poet is ________

• A. derisive
• B. ecstatic
• C. regretful
• D. melancholic

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The figure of speech in which a character makes a statement that has or would have deep and serious implication in the play is

• A. aside
• B. euphemism
• C. dramatic irony
• D. textual contrast

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

'Women as a clam, on the sea's crescent I saw your jealous eye quench the sea's Fluorescence, dance on the pulse incessant.'

Wole Soyinka: Night.

The line above suggest that women are

• A. covetous
• B. dogmatic
• C. seers
• D. magicians

This question is based on General Literary Principles

The moment of recognition of truth when ignorance gives way to knowledge in a character is know as

• A. hamartia
• B. anagnorisis
• C. hubris
• D. anamnesis