Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Wole Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation' is

A An attack on the British telephone system
B A complaint about the difficulty of getting telephones installed in private houses
C About the colour of Soyinka's passport
D A humorous but satirical comment on colour prejudice in Britain
E About the game of hide and seek

Question 37:

Romeo and Juliet
Juliet:O serpent heart,hid with a flowering face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave
Beautiful tyrant:Fiend angelical
Dove-feathered raven!wolfish-ravening lamb
Despised substance of divinest show!
A damned saint,an honorable villain!
(From Romeo and Juliet)
Juliet is referring in the above passage to

A Tybalt
B Mercutio
C Old Capulet
D Lady Montague
E Romeo

Question 38:

Maria:If you desire the spleen,and will laugh
yourself into stitches,follow me.yond gull
Malvolio is turned heathen,a very renegado;
saved by believing rightly,can never believe
such impossible passages of grossness.
He's in yellow stockings.
Sir Toby:And cross-gartered?
Maria:Most villainously;like a pendant that keeps
a school in church.i have dogged him:
like his murderer.He does obey every point
of the letter that i dropped to betray him:
he does smile his face into more lines than
is in the new map with the augmentation of
the indies:you have not seen such a thing as
'tis.I can hardly forbear hurling things at
him:if she do,he'll smile and take it for
a great favour.
(Twelfth Night)
Which of the following statements reflects best the situation revealed above

A Malvolio is greatly admired by Maria nad Sir Toby
B Malvolio's dress and bearing will please Lady Olivia very much
C Malvolio is decieved into doing things hated by Olivia
D Malvolio is a heathen and pendant
E The Author of Twelfth Night pokes fun at foolishly misguided people like Malvolio here

Question 39:

New Year's Eve Midnight
Now the bells are tolling-
A year is dead.
And my heart is slowly beating
the Nunc Dimittis
to all my hopes and mute
yewnings of a year
and ghosts hover round
dream beyond dream
Dream beyond dream
mingling with the dying
bell-sounds fading
into memories
like rain drops
falling into a river.
And now the bells are chimming-
A year is born.
And my heart-bell is ringing
in dawn
But it's shrouded things i see
dimly stride
on heart-canopied paths
to a riverside
The mood of the above poem is

A Optimism
B Pessimism
C Optimism mixed with pessimism
D Much optimism qualified by a little pessimism
E Much pessimism lightened by a little optimism

Question 40:

In the fiction No Longer At Ease by Chinua Achebe,Obuajulu Okonkwo's fall can be traced to the fact that

A The Nigerian society is often wicked to the individual
B He is at bottom a very bad man
C He believes in using bribes to get to the top
D The weaknesses within him and the society unite to pull him down
E He fancies women too much