Literature Past Questions And Answers
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Read the extract and answer the following question.
As wagish boys in a game themselves forswear;
So the boy Love is perjured everywhere;
For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia's eyne,
He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved and showers of oaths did melt
The speaker is- A. Egeus
- B. Hermia
- C. Demetrius
- D. Helena
This question is based on General Literary Principles
Chanson is a term denoting a
- A. poem of varied metrical forms
- B. from of love song
- C. song from the Middle Ages
- D. popular Korean verse
Read the extract and answer the question
You cramthese words into mine ears against
The stomach of my sense. Would I had never
Married my daughter there! For, coming thence,
My son is lost, and,in my rate, she too,
(Act II, Scene One, lines 99 - 102)
The setting is
- A. outside Prospero's cell
- B. on a ship
- C. in front of Prospero's cell
- D. another part of the island
NON-AFRICAN PROSE
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: The Old Man and The Sea
Discuss the theme of perseverance in the novel
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2011 THEORYA Midsummer Night's Read the extract below and answer question
X: You do impeach your modesty too much,
To leave the city and commit yourself
Into the hands of one that loves you not;
To trust the opportunity of night
And the ill counsel of a desert place
Y: With the rich worth of your virginity.
Your virtue is my privilege: for that
it is not night when I do see your face,
Therefore I think I am not in the night;
Night evolves in the speakers'
- A. huge responsibilities
- B. contracting feelings
- C. despairing thoughts
- D. erotic feelings
AFRICAN PROSE
ADICHIE CHIMAMANDA NGOZI: Purple Hibiscus
Examine the relationship between Kambili and father Amadi.
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2013 THEORYThis question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel. Lakunel is presented as a
- A. fine specimen of an education young man
- B. truly progressive and enlightened youth
- C. strong defender of the people's tradition
- D. caricature of a modern educated man
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The technique found in drama in which the audience knows what the actor does not know is called
- A. stage direction
- B. dramatic irony
- C. setting
- D. improvisation
This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vicent, T.(ed.): A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed.): West African Verse.
Tennyson's Crossing the Bar is ________?
- A. a celebration of life
- B. an appreciation of nature
- C. a demystification of death
- D. a celebration of the final passage
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
Read the extract below and answer the question
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 speech was made after
- A. the killing of Polonius
- B. Hamlet's arrival at the palace
- C. the arrival of the players
- D. the appearance of the ghost