This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

At one point in the novel, Jack paints his face

This act can be interpreted to mean

• A. regression into savagery
• B. that he is now fully ready for the dance
• C. an attempt to hide from the other children
• D. an attempt to hide from the animals he wishes to hunt

This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm

In the novel, Boxer is respected for his

• A. duplicity
• B. reticence
• C. intellect
• D. hard work

Read the extract and answer the question

Here lies our sovereign Lord the King

Whose word no man relies on

Who never said a foolish thing

And never did a wise one.

The tone of the extract is one of

• A. anger
• B. pity
• C. sarcasm
• D. indifference

This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

Newspeak, the official language of Oceania, is devised to

• A. meet the ideological needs of lngsoc
• B. help devoted party men and women
• C. provide a medium of expression for world view only
• D. assist by cutting the choice of words for party members

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-)

The extract is an example of

• A. epilogue
• B. soliloquy
• C. monologue
• D. aside

Characterization refers to __________

• A. how characters are grouped
• B. the readers' opinions of the characters
• C. how characters are depicted
• D. the roles played by the character

This question is based on Literary Principles.

'At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains piled to the vault overhead. In the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris. Three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner. From the fourth the bones had been thrown down , and lay promiscuously upon the earth, forming at one point a mound of some size',

E. Pope, 'Cask of Amontillado'

In the

• A. cannibalism
• B. monstrosity
• C. evil
• D. doom

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.

Brother Jero displays an act of ingratitude to his master by

• A. enticing the French Jehovah witnesses
• B. dispossessing him of his piece of land
• C. conniving with the Cherubims and Seraphims
• D. organizing a deceitful dancing competition

NON-AFRICAN PROSE

GEORGE ELIOT: Silas Marner

Examine how William Dane affects the fortunes of Silas Marner

Poetry that avoids the use of regular metre is

• A. lyric
• B. lumerick
• C. free verse
• D. blank verse