Literature Past Questions And Answers

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1961

In a play, unfolding events reach their peak in the

  • A. climax
  • B. denouement
  • C. catharsis
  • D. conflict
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1962

A literary work is didactic f it

  • A. entertains
  • B. comforts
  • C. criticizes
  • D. teaches
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1963

AFRICAN DRAMA

FEMI OSOFISAN: Women of Owu

Comment on the agreement between Anlugbua and Lawumi to punish the allied forces

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1964

NON-AFRICAN DRAMA

ROBERT BOLT: A Man For All Seasons

Discuss the notion that Sir Thomas More is naive

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1965

Speaker: Let me speak like yourself and

Lay a sentence

Which, as a grise or step, may help these lovers, When

remediea are past, the griefs are ended

By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended

(Act !, Scene Three, lines 198-201)

These lovers refers to_________

  • A. Iago and Emilia
  • B. Cassio and Bianca
  • C. Roderigo and Desdemona
  • D. Othello and Desdemona
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1966

Read the extract and answer the question

At mine unworthiness, that dare not offer

What I desire to give; and much less take

What I shall die to want. But this is trifling;

And all the more it seeks to hide itself,

The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning!

And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!

(Act 111, scene one lines 78 - 83)

The speaker is

  • A. Ferdinand
  • B. Stephano
  • C. Miranda
  • D. Prospero
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1967

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

Read the extract and answer the question

Think it no more:

For nature, crescent, does not grow alone

Inthews and bulk, as this temple waxes,

The inward service of the mind and soul

Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now.

And now no soil or cantle doth besmirch

The virtue of his will

(Act One, Scene 111, Lines 10 - 16)

Thews and bulk means

  • A. power
  • B. body and soul
  • C. strength and size
  • D. brain
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1968

A stanza of four lines is a (n)

  • A. octave
  • B. couplet
  • C. quatrain
  • D. tercet
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1969

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

What sustains the interest of a reader in all literature is

  • A. ambiguity
  • B. characterization
  • C. suspense
  • D. plot
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1970

A short single act drama is called____________

  • A. Opera
  • B. Allusion
  • C. Farce
  • D. Playlet
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