Othello: So please your grace, my ancient;

A man he is of honesty and trust To his conveyance i assign my wife

Grace shall think

To be sent after me

(Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 279-283)

Othello is leaving to__________

• A. Fight in Rhodes
• B. Make peace with the Turks
• C. Meet the government of Cyprus
• D. Take over the government of Cyprus

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

A paragraph in prose is equivalent to a

• A. verse in poetry
• B. stanza in poetry
• C. metre in poetry
• D. trope in poetry

This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters

Paternal aunt to Aaron and Maanan is

• A. Fosuwa
• B. Hannah
• C. Mrs. Bonu
• D. Adwao

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

A cursing rogue with a merry farce,

A bundle of rags upon a crurch,

Stumbled upon that windy place

Called cruachan, and it was as much.

The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is

• A. aabb
• B. abab
• C. bbaa
• D. abba

John K. Kargbo: Let me Die Alone

How do men behave towards women in the play?

Read the poem below and answer questions 26 to 30.

We wear the mask that grins and lies,

It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,

This debt we pay to human guile;

With torn and bleeding hearts we smile

And mouths with myriad subtleties,

Why should the world be over-wise,

In counting all our tears and sighs?

Nay, let them only see us, while

We wear the mask.

We smile but O great god, our cries

To thee from tortured souls arise

We sing, but oh the clay is vile

Beneath our feet and long the mile,

But let the world dream otherwise,

We wear the mask!

The dominant mood is one of

• A. sadness
• B. fear
• C. joy
• D. optimism

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

The principal function of the play-within-the-play in Hamlet is to

• A. amuse Claudius
• B. confirm the claim of the ghost
• C. divert attention from the main event
• D. create some comic relief in the tragedy

What figure of speech is used in the expression below? 'I have been here a thousand times.'

• A. Apostrophe
• B. Pun
• C. Personification
• D. Hyperbole

Read the extract below and answer the question

.......'twere damnation

To think so basealthough; it were too gross

To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave; ?

Or shall I think in silver she's immured;

Being ten times undervalued to tried gold?

(Act 11 scene seven, lines 49 - 53)

The person referred to in the extract is

• A. Jessica
• B. Antonio
• C. Balthazar
• D. Portia

This question is based on General literacy principles

A poet's use of regular rhythm is known as

• A. allegory
• B. assonance
• C. metre
• D. onomatopoeia