A Midsummer Night's Read the extract below and answer question

X: You do impeach your modesty too much,

To leave the city and commit yourself

Into the hands of one that loves you not;

To trust the opportunity of night

And the ill counsel of a desert place

Y: With the rich worth of your virginity.

Your virtue is my privilege: for that

it is not night when I do see your face,

Therefore I think I am not in the night;

Night evolves in the speakers'

• A. huge responsibilities
• B. contracting feelings
• C. despairing thoughts
• D. erotic feelings

Read the extract below and answer question

X: I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again;

Mine ear is much enamoured of thy note;

So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;

And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me

On the first view, to say, to swear, I love thee.

Y: Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that: ...

(Act llI, Scene One, Lines 116-121)

Speaker X's speech can be described as a

• A. satire
• B. conceit
• C. paradox
• D. parody

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 speaker is A. Bottom B. PeaseblossomC.

• A. Bottom
• B. Peaseblossom
• C. Quince
• D. Puck

Read the extract below and answer question

X: I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again;

Mine ear is much enamoured of thy note;

So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;

And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me

On the first view, to say, to swear, I love thee.

Y: Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that: ...

(Act llI, Scene One, Lines 116-121)

Speaker X is

• A. Titania
• B. Hippolyta
• C. snout
• D. Oberon

A three-line stanza, rhymed ABA, BCB, CDC is a

• A. couplet
• B. haiku
• C. terza rima
• D. heroic couplet

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 speaker is addressing

• A. artists
• B. painters
• C. actors
• D. writers

A pause within a line of poetry is

• A. an alliteration
• B. a caesura
• C. a metre
• D. an assonance

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

SECTION B (NON-AFRICAN DRAMA) AUGUST, WILSON: Fences

Comment on the appropriateness of the title, Fences.

Read the poem below and answer questions 26 to 30.

We wear the mask that grins and lies,

It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,

This debt we pay to human guile;

With torn and bleeding hearts we smile

And mouths with myriad subtleties,

Why should the world be over-wise,

In counting all our tears and sighs?

Nay, let them only see us, while

We wear the mask.

We smile but O great god, our cries

To thee from tortured souls arise

We sing, but oh the clay is vile

Beneath our feet and long the mile,

But let the world dream otherwise,

We wear the mask!

We wear the mask that grins and lies illustrate

• A. irony
• B. personification
• C. synecdoche
• D. alliteration