UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the passage below and answer the following questions:

Along marched the crowd, determined not to be distracted from its cause and the course it had charted. If anyone could intimidate the chief, it was Sasu, who led the crowd. The chief nurtured unruffled restraint. He knew Sasu, knew that Sasu would not waste the trust between them on renegades.

One way to divert a mob from its goal is to join in with it, lead it on, but, finally, veer it from the course of its cause. Onward, towards the chief's palace marched the crowd, singing war songs.

The sun frowned as the palace guards, rattling like leaves in a storm - fear branded on their faces, came out to survey the threatening crowd and prepare for a siege. Just then, Sasu turned about, heading away from the palace - with the crowd, and the war songs.

• A. pleasant
• B. drab
• C. tense
• D. serene

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's

The theme of chance is graphically demonstrated by the

• A. meeting of Parson Tringham and Mr Durbeyfield
• B. rape scene
• C. sudden return of Angel Clare from Brazil
• D. death of Tess'child

A praise poem is ____________

• A. A Ballad
• B. A Panegyric
• C. An Allegory
• D. An Epigram

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

Read the extract and answer the question

Your leave and favour to return to France;

From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,

To show my duty in your coronation.

Yet now, I must confess, that duty done.

My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France

And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.

(Act 1, Scene two, Lines 51 -57)

The speaker intends to return to

• A. the seaside
• B. the warfront
• C. denmark
• D. france

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Use the following extract to answer the question that follows:

Lie bath rid his prologue like a rough colt: he knows not the stop.

A good moral, my lord: it is not enough to speak, but to speak true.

• A. Hippolyta
• B. Lysander
• C. Pyramus
• D. Bottom

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

A motif is

• A. a recurrent image in a work of literature
• B. the reason behind a character's behaviour
• C. a single matrical line
• D. an essay or treatise on a particular subject

The elegy

• A. conforms to a fixed pattern of lines
• B. is set in the countryside
• C. has a mournful tone
• D. celebrates heroic deeds

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

Oh incomprehensible God!

Shall my pilot be

My inborn stars to that

Final call to thee...

The literary device used in the first line is

• A. apostrophe
• B. burleques
• C. rehetoric question
• D. passion

This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

'' I could swim when I was five. Daddy taught me...

What's your father?''

''May dad's dead,'' he said quickly, ''and my mum...''

This dialogue is between

• A. Jack and Robert
• B. Jack and Ralph
• C. Jack and Piggy
• D. Piggy and Ralph

This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi'sThe New Man

After listening to the soldiers' conversation, the convict decides to

• A. get in touch with his relation immediately
• B. hide in the bush for one day and later contact Laoye Layeni
• C. hide in the bush for one week and later contact Sade
• D. contact his friends who arrange his movement