Which group of characters appears in Macbeth?
- A. Audrey, Phebe, Silvius
- B. Charles, Malcolm, Banquo
- C. Lennox, Donalbain, Seyton
- D. Duncan, frederick, Banquo
- E. Oliver, Ross, Banquo
‘They have tied me to a stake:I cannot fly, But bear like i must fight the course’.
Macbeth here is represented as
- A. confident and arrogant
- B. pitiable and evil
- C. pitiable but courageous
- D. pitiable and fearful
- E. merry and confident
Macbeth is confident that he will not be defeated in battle because
- A. all his enemies has gone into exile
- B. he is a better fighter than Macduff
- C. he had already killed Banquo
- D. Lady Macbeth gives him courage
- E. the witches gave him an assurance
‘But ‘t is strange:
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instrument of darkness tells us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betrays in deepest consequences’.
These words were spoken by
- A. Banquo
- B. Macbeth
- C. Malcolm
- D. Lady Macbeth
- E. Macduff.
After the murder of Duncan , Macbeth was still dissatisfied because
- A. he wanted to see the witches again
- B. he had only paved the way for Banquo's son
- C. he felt remorse
- D. lady Macbeth could not sleep
- E. there was knocking at the gate
The marriage of Anansewa is a play based on Ghanian
- A. politics
- B. traditional marriage ceremonies
- C. folktales
- D. lady macbeth could not sleep
- E. oral poetry
George Kweku Ananse in the marriage of Anansewa was
- A. a tricker
- B. an exploiter
- C. a christain
- D. an orator
Chief-Who-Is-Chief won Anansewa for his wife because he
- A. paid the largest dowry
- B. showed the greatest love for her
- C. bribed property man
- D. was a friend of Anansewa's father
- E. paid her school fees.
Anansewa’s grandmother prays that the man who marries Anansewa
- A. has respect for others
- B. is wealthy
- C. is young
- D. comes from her own area
- E. helps the family
Chaucer presents The Franklin as
- A. a great noble man
- B. a devout christain
- C. an apicurian in taste
- D. a jovial character
- E. an ambitious man
In Gray’s ‘Elegy’ the poor are
- A. abused
- B. accursed
- C. romanticized
- D. praised
- E. admonished
All the images used to describe where the poet always stop in Lenrie Peter’s ; The Fence ‘are suggestive of the character’s
- A. cleverness
- B. versatility
- C. moral weakness
- D. romatic disposition
- E. evil nature
‘Comes this season of the cassia flower,
And pent passion peers through the bower,
Comes the season, and all labour is fallen
All earthen pitches as china broken’
The rhyme scheme in this passageb from kalu Uka’s ‘Earth to Earth’ is
- A. alternative rhymes
- B. triplets
- C. couplets
- D. free verse
- E. blank verse
Poetry deals with one of the following
- A. emotion only
- B. death only
- C. ideas only
- D. emotion and ideas
- E. beauty only
The subject matter of ‘A Troubadour|Traverse’is
- A. suffering and oppression
- B. laughter and happiness
- C. singing and merry making
- D. love for a woman
- E. long journey
In ‘The Sea Eats Our Land’ the word ‘sea’ symbolizes
- A. flood
- B. ancestor
- C. modernity
- D. sacrifise
- E. golden girl
‘She came in silken Drapes’ is about the
- A. virtures of love
- B. killing of a coral snake
- C. danger of false love
- D. beautiful butterfly
- E. sleeping leopards.
The feeling in the poem ‘Nightfall in Soweto’ is one of
- A. gratitude
- B. love
- C. hate
- D. joy
- E. safety
‘And ‘mid these dancing looks at once and ever it flung up momentarily the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran’.
Line 3 is made memorable by the use of
- A. simile
- B. metaphor
- C. polysyndeton
- D. monosyndeton
- E. alliteration
‘She unpacked the novels she has brought with her, and turned them over. These were the books she had collected over years from the mass that had come her way. She had read each one a dozen times, knowing it by heart, following the familiar tales as a child listens to his mother telling him a well-known fairy tale’.
This character may best be described as a woman
- A. of habit
- B. of poor means
- C. of wide literary interest
- D. with poor memory
- E. who loved her mother
‘Earth has not anything to show more fair.
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This city now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning’.
It is suggested in this lines that
- A. the beauty of the morning gains from the beauty of the city
- B. the beauty of the city gains from the beauty of the morning
- C. the beauty of the city and the beauty of the morning are unrelated
- D. the beauty of the same has nothing to do with either the city or the morning
- E. there is no beauty on earth