Literature Past Questions And Answers
Read the stanza and the question
Pan, O great Pan, to thee
Thus do we sing!
Thou who keep'st chaste and free
As the young spring:
Ever be thy honour spake
From that place the more is broke
To the place day doth unyoke
Pan is used here as
- A. an allusion
- B. symbol
- C. irony
- D. metonymy
These question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters.
James: Let me swear, woman. And I will swear by my father's coffin that if....
The speaker is referring to
- A. Fosuwa
- B. Awere
- C. Maanan
- D. Hannah
Read the extract below and answer question
But, masters, here are our parts, and I am to entreat you, request you, and desire you, to con them by to-morrow night; and meet me in the place wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight. There will we rehearse: for if we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with company, and Our devices known.
(Act I, Scene two Lines 79-84)
The rehearsal is in preparation for
- A. Egeus' acceptance of Lysander
- B. the dance of the faries
- C. Theseus' wedding
- D. Titania waking up from a dream
Adeoti's Ambush may be best described as____________
- A. Prosaic
- B. Lyrical
- C. Analogical
- D. Metaphorical
This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
In the novel, Orwell attempts to
- A. satirize the artificiality of a machine controlled society
- B. eulogize the beauty of the socialist system
- C. condemn the disgusting hypocrisy of all communist systems
- D. laud the boundless possibilities of the human intellect
What basically distinguishes Literature from other disciplines is its
- A. use of creative imagination
- B. exposition of human experience
- C. communication of ideas
- D. portrayal of places
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
Read the extract and answer the question
It is here,......thou art slain;
No medicine in the world can do thee good,
In thee there is not half an hour of life;
The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,
Unbated and envenom d: the foul practice
Hath turn'd itself on me; lo; here I lie,
(Act 5, Scene Two, Lines 298-303)
The queen has just
- A. left the scene
- B. died
- C. run away
- D. arrived
Answer all the questions in this section
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest
Read the extract and anser the question.
Silence ! One word more
Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. What!
An advocate for an impostor! Hush!
(Act 1,Scene Two, lines 478 - 480)
The ''impostor'' is
- A. Sebastian
- B. Antonio
- C. Ferdinand
- D. Alonso
This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.
You want to know something then you run like a rabbit'
The device used in the line above is
- A. pun
- B. personification
- C. metaphor
- D. simile
Read the extract below and answer the question
.....I owe you much, and like a wilful youth
That which I owe is lost: but if you please
To shoot another arrow that self way
which you did shoot the first.
And thankfully rest debtor for the first
(Act 1 sc 1)
The speaker is
- A. symbolism
- B. imagery
- C. metaphor
- D. allusion

