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Zounds, sir, y' are robbed! For shame, put on your gown!

Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul.

Even now, very now, an old blackram

is tupping your white eww. Arise. arise!

Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,

Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you

Arise i say! (Act 1, scene one,lines 83 - 89)

The underlined expression implies an attitude of __________

• A. callousness
• B. hypocrisy
• C. racism
• D. tribalism

Condensed use of language is a dominant feature of ___________

• A. comedy
• B. poetry
• C. prose
• D. tragedy

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Zounds, sir, y' are robbed! For shame, put on your gown!

Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul.

Even now, very now, an old blackram

is tupping your white eww. Arise. arise!

Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,

Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you

Arise i say! (Act 1, scene one,lines 83 - 89)

... y' are robbed! refers to

• A. Brabantio's r-ejection of Othello
• B. Desdemona's stout defense of Othello
• C. Iago's stealing of Rodrigo's purse
• D. Othello's elopement with Desdemona

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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)

.... so good a commander refers to

• A. Brabantio
• B. Duke
• C. Othelo
• D. Roderigo

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With the pen, he wrote kings into reality

With his words, kingdoms arose,

Those same words, slaves inhaled

Their hands building walls, their feet tromping territories

His pen was like the breath of life.

hands and feet in line 4 illustrate _________

• A. contrast
• B. litotes
• C. personification
• D. synecdoche

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Zounds, sir, y' are robbed! For shame, put on your gown!

Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul.

Even now, very now, an old blackram

is tupping your white eww. Arise. arise!

Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,

Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you

Arise i say! (Act 1, scene one,lines 83 - 89)

The speaker is ________

• A. at the citadel of Cyprus
• B. In front of Brabantio's house
• C. In the council chamber
• D. outside the sagittary

A fictional prose which is neither a novel nor a short story is a/an __________

• A. allegory
• B. fable
• C. novella
• D. novelette

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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 speaker is addressing

• A. Cassio
• B. Iago
• C. Othelo
• D. Roderigo

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On, on, on, over the countless miles of angry space roll the long heaving OT angry space roll the long heaving billows. Mountains and caves are here; for what is now the other; then all is but a boiling heap of rushing water. Pursuit, and flight and mad return of and savage struggle, ending up in a spouting up of foam that whitens the black night; incessant change of place and form and hue; constancy in nothing but eternal strife.

On, on, on, they roll and darker grows the night: and louder howls the wind and more clamorous and fierce become the million voices in the sea, when the wild cry goes forth upon the storm, A ship!

A ship in the last line symbolises _________

• A. despair.
• B. hope
• C. pirates
• D. sailors

FRANK OGODO OGBECHE: Harvest of Corruption

3. Examine Ogeyi as a deeply religious person in the play.

4. Account for the downfall of Chief in the play.