This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops To Conquer.
The success of the play as a comedy relies on the author’s use of
- A. dramatic irony
- B. stock comic characters
- C. comic relief
- D. stage and scenic disguise
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops To Conquer.
The Dorothy of the play is
- A. Tony Lumpkin's mother
- B. Young Marlow's mother
- C. Miss Neville's mother
- D. Kate, Hardcastle's daughter
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops To Conquer.
The story of the play would have been different but for
- A. Miss Hardcastle's attitude towards her guests
- B. Mr. Hardcastle's ignorance of Young Marlow's true identity
- C. the insensitivity of Mrs Hardcastle
- D. Tony's misinformation of Young Marlow and Mr. Hastings
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops To Conquer.
The use of the traditional verse from in the play applies to
- A. the character of Sir Charles Marlow
- B. the prologue songs and the epilogue
- C. male characters
- D. female characters
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops To Conquer.
”My heart thus pressing-fix’d my face and eye-with a sententious look, that nothing means…’In the lines above, the speaker implies that
- A. his gesture means nothing
- B. he is a pious man
- C. he is being sentimental
- D. his heart is pressing against his face and eye
This question is based on J.P. Clark’s The Wives’ Revolt.
In their flight, the women settle at lyara in order to
- A. forestall reconciliation
- B. seek peace
- C. cure cross-piece
- D. hurt their husbands
This question is based on J.P. Clark’s The Wives’ Revolt.
‘…Great orators in the assembly, and poor nannies at home.’Those being ridiculed here are the
- A. spinsters
- B. husbands
- C. wives
- D. old women
This question is based on J.P. Clark’s The Wives’ Revolt.
‘….Those with breasts have walked out, and that leaves you, me and the old girls returned home on retirement. It’s the dry season, child.’The character to whom the words are spoken in the play is in
- A. front of the verandah of Okoro's house
- B. Okoro's front yard, downstage
- C. the direction of the kitchen, offstage
- D. the kitchen, upstage
This question is based on J.P. Clark’s The Wives’ Revolt.
In the play, the central idea is that gender equality is
- A. both undersirable and unattainable
- B. attainable and desirable
- C. obnoxious but desirable
- D. desirable but unattainable
This question is based on J.P. Clark’s The Wives’ Revolt.
The mutual exchange of abuse in the play is reminiscent of
- A. lkaki
- B. Ekpe
- C. Udje
- D. Etiyeri
This question is based on General Literary Principles
The writing convention in which the events in a narrative are scrambled as they come to the writer’s mind without any attempt to arrange them in orderly sequence is called
- A. shifting style
- B. narrator's mind style
- C. psycho-consciousness style
- D. stream of consciousness
This question is based on General Literary Principles
In literary convention, ‘aside’ is used to
- A. make a pointed remark
- B. emphasize scenes as different from acts
- C. distinguish between events
- D. gossip about other characters
This question is based on General Literary Principles
‘Theatre-in-the-round’is employed to achieve a
- A. quick resolution of conflicts
- B. hilarious ending
- C. contest between the hero and the villan
- D. close rapport between players and spectators.
This question is based on General Literary Principles
The author of a novel sustains readers’ interest through the use of
- A. ambiguity
- B. anecdotes
- C. prologue
- D. suspense
This question is based on General Literary Principles
Allegory is used to describe a work in which
- A. humans are transposed into animals
- B. both animals and humans swap roles
- C. animals are given human characters
- D. abstract ideas are personified
This question is based on General Literary Principles
The tragic character is the person whose experiences arouse pity and
- A. terror
- B. horror
- C. frustration
- D. sympathy
This question is based on General Literary Principles
One rhyme scheme typical of the English sonnet is
- A. abab cdcd cdedce
- B. abba abba cde cde
- C. abba abba cde dce
- D. abab cdcd efef gg
This question is based on General Literary Principles
The form of poetry that celebrates with nostalgia the ideal world of the countryside is referred to as
- A. an ode
- B. a ballad
- C. an elegy
- D. a pastoral
This question is based on General Literary Principles
Farce thrives on
- A. big events
- B. premonition
- C. absurdity
- D. incidents
This question is based on the Literary Appreciation
‘The gloom will give way to light
And the thorny path cleared of pain
The storms will bow to the prompting of peace
Lost moments of glory will be restored
And strangled opportunities reborn
We shall yet regain the dawn
The suggestion that runs through the short poem above is that of
- A. anxiety and worry
- B. anticipation of positive change
- C. sorrow and dejection
- D. fear of change
This question is based on the Literary Appreciation
” To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.”
William Blake, To Sea a World in a Grain of Sand
The predominant figure of speech used in the lines above is
- A. metaphor
- B. hyperbole
- C. simile
- D. paradox