Read the passage below and answer the question:

The long column of misery tended continually to grow longer, as the more robust struggled to get as far as possible from the pursuing French, and as the weaker fell farther and farther behind. There were enough weaklings in all conscience; even in summer the had been badly clothed, and even in victory insufficiently fed, and now it was winter, and Espinosa had been fought and lost, and the route of the retreat lay away from the fertile plains and up into the inhospitable mountains. The rain had fallen upon them in deluges for days and now as they climbed higher it was turning into sleet. and a bitter cold wind blew. Ahead of them they could see the snow lying thick on the mountain passes through which they would have to climb, without food or fuel or rest, and with the terror of the French to urge them on. Disease had come inevitably to complete the work so well begun by hunger, exposure, and the sword

The attitude of the survivors is best summed up by the word

• A. indifference
• B. persistence
• C. resignation
• D. victory

Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Romeo's mood at the beginning of the play can be described as

• A. frustrated and pensive
• B. gay and elated
• C. melancholic and sentimental
• D. dreamy and hopeful

These question is based on General Literary Principles.

Action without speech in a play is

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

''But at my back I always hear

Time's winged chariot hurrying near'' illustrates

• A. metaphor
• B. apostrophe
• C. oxymoron
• D. metonymy

Dramatis personae in a play refers to

• A. cast list
• B. list of characters
• C. portagonist and antagonist
• D. order of appearance

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest

Read the extract and answer the question

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,

Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.

Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments

Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices,

That, if I then had waked after long sleep,

Will make me sleep again.And then, in dreaming,

The clouds methought would open, and show riches

Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked,

I cried to dream again.

(Act 111, scene two, lines 132-140)

What are 'noises' in the extract?

• A. shouting
• B. clapping
• C. thunder
• D. music

A metrical pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables illustrates the

• A. iambus
• B. anapaest
• C. dactil
• D. trochee

You cannot know And should not bother Tide and market come and go And so shall your mother In this verse the poet uses

• A. alternate rhymes
• B. monomyme
• C. couplets
• D. triplets

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.

According to the highest estimate, how many ships in the Turkish fleet were said to head for the Island of Cyprus?

• A. 107
• B. 230
• C. 200
• D. 140

Read the extract and answer the question

Y : Do you know me, my lord?

Z : Excellent well;you are a fishmonger

Y : Not I, my lord.

Z : Then I would you were so honest a man.

Y : Honest, my lord!

Z : Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes. Is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

(Act Two, Scene II, lines 173-179)

The two characters who just left this scene are

• A. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
• B. Hamlet and the ghost
• C. The king and the question
• D. Polonius and Ophelia