Literature Past Questions And Answers
Yet, let me flap this bug with gilded wings,
This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings The poets intention is to___________
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This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
Oswald Mtshali's 'They Washerwoman's Prayer' is
- A. a pious appeal to God
- B. about the permanence of apartheid
- C. concerned with laundry
- D. about slave labour
Read the extract below and answer the question
This kindness will I show.
Go with me to a notary; seal me there
Your single bond, and , in a merry sport,
If you repay me not on such a day,
....let the forfeit
Be nominated for an equal pound....
(Act One Scene 111)
The ''Kindness'' is to be repaid within
- A. one month
- B. three months
- C. one year
- D. a life -time
....checking the coins against the tickets, he began to count the morning's take. It was mostly what he expected at this time of the month: small coins, a lot of pesewas,...
Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born,what time of the month is being referred to in the above statement from the novel?
- A. Passion week
- B. Passover week
- C. Pay day
- D. Rainy day
Read the extract and answer the question
Look thou be true. Do not give dalliance
Took much the rein. The strongest oaths are straw
To the fire i' the blood. Be more abstemious.
Or else, good night your vow!
(Act IV, scene one lines 51-54)
The ''oath'' referred to in the scene is
- A. Miranda shall not give in to Ferdinand
- B. Ferdinand shall not have intimate contact with Miranda
- C. Miranda shall vow to be faithful to Ferdinand
- D. Ferdinand shall not tell his father about Miranda
This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.
Though we knew that something was wrong with our society, we made no attempt to assess it. Trinidad was too unimportant and we could never be convinced of the value of reading the history of a place which was, as everyone said, only a dot on the map of the world.
The Middle Passage by V.S. Naipaul
The writer here maintains that Trinidad
- A. was too insignificant to have a history
- B. was so small that its people did not value its history
- C. was a mere dot and did not therefore attract people's attention
- D. lacked historical significance bcause it could not compete with the rest of the world.
These question are based on literary Appreciation.
I am not afraid of anything he told them.
I have done almost everything in this world.I have committed all crimes you can think of and been jailed for most them.I have been in prison more hours than i have been out of it within the last five years.
In recounting his criminal life,the speaker's tone is
- A. regretful
- B. subdued
- C. repentant
- D. boastful
This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives' Revolt
'But those are the hags and witches we wanted out of town.
The expression hags and witches refers to
- A. old unmarried girls and wives retired home from their husbands
- B. the three women who turned into goats
- C. all the women in the play
- D. handmaids, headwives, most favoured wives nursing mothers and pregnant wives
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
In the play, most characters act in ignorance while the audience is aware of the true situation.
This is an example of
- A. dramatic monologue
- B. dramatic irony
- C. comic relief
- D. epilogue
Read the extract and answer Questions
I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so good a
commander with so slight, so drunken, and so indiscreet
an officer. Drunk! And speak parrot! And squabble!
swagger! Swear! And discourse fustian with one's own
shadow! a thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no
name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
(Act II, Scene Three, lines 262-267)
The mood is that of
- A. deceit
- B. envy
- C. hatred
- D. regret