The eight-line part of a Petrarchan sonnet is the________________

• A. Quatrain
• B. Octave
• C. Octameter
• D. Quartet

'This thing you are doing is too heavy

for you, he said.'I went to school only a little

but i have killed many more years in this

world than you have.'

G. Okara: The Voice

It can be inferred from the the passage above that the

• A. listener is more experienced
• B. speaker is more experienced
• C. listener is wise
• D. speaker is a porter

The expression '' poisonous pleasure of wine'' Illustrates the use of

• A. metonymy
• B. synecdoche
• C. paradox
• D. oxymoron

Answer all the questions in this section

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest

Read the extract and anser the question.

Silence ! One word more

Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. What!

An advocate for an impostor! Hush!

(Act 1,Scene Two, lines 478 - 480)

The addressee is

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

Read the extract below and answer the question

A : Let me choose,

For as I am, live upon the rack.

B : Upon the rack, Bassanio? then confess

What treason there is mingled with your love.

(Act Three Scene 11)

The ''rack'' symbolizes

• A. confession
• B. torture
• C. penitence
• D. danger

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

'There be two gentlemen in a post-chaise at the door. They have lost their way upon the forest....

The two gentlemen in the excerpt above are

• A. Diggory and Saunders
• B. Marlow and Hastings
• C. Marlow and Hardcastle
• D. Diggory and Hastings

Read the extract and answer the question

As thou art to thyself:

Such was the very armour he had on

When he the amitious Norway combated;

So frown'd he once, when , in an angry parle,

He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice....

(Act 1, Scene one, lines 59-63)

The speaker is addressing

• A. Marcellus
• B. Francisco
• C. the ghost
• D. Horatio

AFRICAN DRAMA

JOE DE GRAFT: Sons and Daughters

Examine the relationship between James and his two children, Maanan and Aaron.

A group of actors in a play is called

• A. characters
• B. cast
• C. chorus
• D. prompters

This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.

Twelfth Night is preoccupied with the juxtaposition of

• A. death and disappointment
• B. appearance and reality
• C. life and disappointment
• D. love and death