This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.

Miss Hardcastle is able to 'conquer' at the end of the play because of her

• A. indiscretion
• B. beauty
• C. wit
• D. brawn

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest

Read the extract and answer the question

Caliban: Ay, that I will; and I'II be wise hereafter,

And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass

Was I, to takethis drunkard for a god,

And worship this dull foot!

Prospero : Go to; away!

Alonso : Hence, and bestowyour luggage where you found it.

Sebastian :Or stole, rather.

(Act V, scene one lines 293 - 299)

PROSPERO HAS ASKED CALIBAN TO

• A. go and bring Miranda
• B. go to Prospero's cell
• C. fetch more wood
• D. learn his language lessons

Keats Ode to a Nightingale can best be described as

• A. an appreciation of nature
• B. an appreciation of the beauty of the nightingale
• C. a reflection ont he uncertainties of life
• D. a description of nature

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

'This thing you are doing is too heavy for you, he said.' I went to school only a little, but I have killed many more years in this world than you have.'

G.Okara: The Voice.

It can be inferred from the passage above that the

• A. listener is wise
• B. speaker is a porter
• C. listener is more experienced
• D. speaker is more experienced

This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

The poet in Sunset Sonata proposes

• A. defiance and protest
• B. arrogance and complacency
• C. nonchalance and pride
• D. violence and aggression

Diction is writers choice of

• A. styles
• B. plot
• C. theme
• D. words

Which of the following is central to narrative fiction ?

• A. Verisimilitude
• B. Dialogue
• C. Objectivity
• D. Subjectivity

This question is based on General Literary Principles

The technique in which both the stage and the auditorium are involved in a lay production is called

• A. theatre of the absurd
• B. role-playing
• C. audience participation
• D. total theatre

This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

In Raina's view, if one is incapable of gratitude, he is incapable of any noble

• A. attitude
• B. ideas
• C. sentiment
• D. prowess

A trilogy is the

• A. set of three one-act drama written by related authors
• B. series of related stories divided into three equal parts
• C. sequence of three plays written by the same author
• D. collection of three poems of equal length