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Question 1 of 59
1. Question
A short introductory speech delivered as part of a play is called
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Question 2 of 59
2. Question
The limerick
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Question 3 of 59
3. Question
Unrhymed iambic pentameter lines illustrate
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Question 4 of 59
4. Question
The major distinctive feature of drama is
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Question 5 of 59
5. Question
The recurrence of rhythmic pattern of stress in a poem is
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Question 6 of 59
6. Question
A poem written in praise of someone or something is
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Question 7 of 59
7. Question
“No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
The mood of the poet is one of?
From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell”
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Question 8 of 59
8. Question
“No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell”
The poet used?
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Question 9 of 59
9. Question
“No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
The rhyming pattern of the lines is?
- The rhyming pattern of the lines is
From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell”
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Question 10 of 59
10. Question
“But at my back I always hear
Time’s winged chariot hurrying near”
Illustrates?
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Question 11 of 59
11. Question
The central idea of a story or a poem is the
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Question 12 of 59
12. Question
An emphasis placed on a syllable in pronunciation is
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Question 13 of 59
13. Question
The timing and location of a literary work is
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Question 14 of 59
14. Question
The elegy
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Question 15 of 59
15. Question
The major genres of literature are
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Question 16 of 59
16. Question
Pick the odd item out of the options listed
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Question 17 of 59
17. Question
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea
My love as deep”
the above lines illustrate
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Question 18 of 59
18. Question
The strong gongs groaning as the guns born far” illustrates
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Question 19 of 59
19. Question
Pick the odd item out of the options listed
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Question 20 of 59
20. Question
“Poetry gets bored of being alone. It wants to go outdoors to chew on the winds”. The dominant figure of speech in the above lines is
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Question 21 of 59
21. Question
Read the poem and answer questions
What a morning!
The sound of guns was everywhere
The city was trapped
I have a mournful sigh –
Rebel!
Boom Boom Boom!
The heart pants at the sound of the blast
Lord! When will all this end?
This is the fourth day.
You say you are free
Oh no, you are not
You are trapped –
A prisoner in your own home
The song is everywhere.
What next?
Food – water – a hiding place
Far from the sound of the gun
The theme of the poem is?
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Question 22 of 59
22. Question
What a morning!
The sound of guns was everywhere
The city was trapped
I have a mournful sigh –
Rebel!
Boom Boom Boom!
The heart pants at the sound of the blast
Lord! When will all this end?
This is the fourth day.
You say you are free
Oh no, you are not
You are trapped –
A prisoner in your own home
The song is everywhere.
What next?
Food – water – a hiding place
Far from the sound of the gun
“Boom Boom Boom” is an example of?
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Question 23 of 59
23. Question
What a morning!
The sound of guns was everywhere
The city was trapped
I have a mournful sigh –
Rebel!
Boom Boom Boom!
The heart pants at the sound of the blast
Lord! When will all this end?
This is the fourth day.
You say you are free
Oh no, you are not
You are trapped –
A prisoner in your own home
The song is everywhere.
What next?
Food – water – a hiding place
Far from the sound of the gun
The atmosphere of the poem implies?
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Question 24 of 59
24. Question
What a morning!
The sound of guns was everywhere
The city was trapped
I have a mournful sigh –
Rebel!
Boom Boom Boom!
The heart pants at the sound of the blast
Lord! When will all this end?
This is the fourth day.
You say you are free
Oh no, you are not
You are trapped –
A prisoner in your own home
The song is everywhere.
What next?
Food – water – a hiding place
Far from the sound of the gunThe second stanza refers to?
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Question 25 of 59
25. Question
What a morning!
The sound of guns was everywhere
The city was trapped
I have a mournful sigh –
Rebel!
Boom Boom Boom!
The heart pants at the sound of the blast
Lord! When will all this end?
This is the fourth day.
You say you are free
Oh no, you are not
You are trapped –
A prisoner in your own home
The song is everywhere.
What next?
Food – water – a hiding place
Far from the sound of the gunThe song is everywhere refers to
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Question 26 of 59
26. Question
Read the passage and answer questions
Here in the station it is in no way different save that the city is busy in its snow. But the old man clings to their seats as though they were symbolic and could not be given up. Now and then they sleep, their grey old heads resting with painful awkwardness on the backs of the benches.
Also they are not at rest. For an hour they may sleep in the gasping exhaustion of the ill-nourished and aged who have to walk in the night. Then a policeman comes by on his rounds and nudges them upright.
“You can’t sleep here”, he growls.
A strange ritual then begins. An old man is difficult to wake. One man after a slight lurch, does not move at all, he sleeps on steadily. Once in a while, one of the sleepers will not wake, he will have had his wish to die in the great droning centre of the hive rather than in some lonely room fulfilled.This style of writing is?
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Question 27 of 59
27. Question
Read the passage and answer questions
Here in the station it is in no way different save that the city is busy in its snow. But the old man clings to their seats as though they were symbolic and could not be given up. Now and then they sleep, their grey old heads resting with painful awkwardness on the backs of the benches.
Also they are not at rest. For an hour they may sleep in the gasping exhaustion of the ill-nourished and aged who have to walk in the night. Then a policeman comes by on his rounds and nudges them upright.
“You can’t sleep here”, he growls.
A strange ritual then begins. An old man is difficult to wake. One man after a slight lurch, does not move at all, he sleeps on steadily. Once in a while, one of the sleepers will not wake, he will have had his wish to die in the great droning centre of the hive rather than in some lonely room fulfilled.“… on the backs of the benches” illustrates?
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Question 28 of 59
28. Question
Read the passage and answer questions
Here in the station it is in no way different save that the city is busy in its snow. But the old man clings to their seats as though they were symbolic and could not be given up. Now and then they sleep, their grey old heads resting with painful awkwardness on the backs of the benches.
Also they are not at rest. For an hour they may sleep in the gasping exhaustion of the ill-nourished and aged who have to walk in the night. Then a policeman comes by on his rounds and nudges them upright.
“You can’t sleep here”, he growls.
A strange ritual then begins. An old man is difficult to wake. One man after a slight lurch, does not move at all, he sleeps on steadily. Once in a while, one of the sleepers will not wake, he will have had his wish to die in the great droning centre of the hive rather than in some lonely room fulfilled.The passage conveys a mood of?
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Question 29 of 59
29. Question
Read the passage and answer questions
Here in the station it is in no way different save that the city is busy in its snow. But the old man clings to their seats as though they were symbolic and could not be given up. Now and then they sleep, their grey old heads resting with painful awkwardness on the backs of the benches.
Also they are not at rest. For an hour they may sleep in the gasping exhaustion of the ill-nourished and aged who have to walk in the night. Then a policeman comes by on his rounds and nudges them upright.
“You can’t sleep here”, he growls.
A strange ritual then begins. An old man is difficult to wake. One man after a slight lurch, does not move at all, he sleeps on steadily. Once in a while, one of the sleepers will not wake, he will have had his wish to die in the great droning centre of the hive rather than in some lonely room fulfilled.“… gasping exhaustion of the ill-nourished and aged …” infers
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Question 30 of 59
30. Question
Here in the station it is in no way different save that the city is busy in its snow. But the old man clings to their seats as though they were symbolic and could not be given up. Now and then they sleep, their grey old heads resting with painful awkwardness on the backs of the benches.
Also they are not at rest. For an hour they may sleep in the gasping exhaustion of the ill-nourished and aged who have to walk in the night. Then a policeman comes by on his rounds and nudges them upright.
“You can’t sleep here”, he growls.
A strange ritual then begins. An old man is difficult to wake. One man after a slight lurch, does not move at all, he sleeps on steadily. Once in a while, one of the sleepers will not wake, he will have had his wish to die in the great droning centre of the hive rather than in some lonely room fulfilled.
“droning” and “hive” illustrate?
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Question 31 of 59
31. Question
Your leave and favour to return to France;
From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,
To show my duty in you coronation.
Yet now, I must confess, that duty done.
My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France
And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon
(Act 1, Scene two, Lines 51 – 57)The speaker is
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Question 32 of 59
32. Question
Your leave and favour to return to France;
From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,
To show my duty in you coronation.
Yet now, I must confess, that duty done.
My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France
And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon
(Act 1, Scene two, Lines 51 – 57)The speaker is addressing?
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Question 33 of 59
33. Question
Your leave and favour to return to France;
From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,
To show my duty in you coronation.
Yet now, I must confess, that duty done.
My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France
And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon
(Act 1, Scene two, Lines 51 – 57)“Duty” in the extract refers to
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Question 34 of 59
34. Question
Your leave and favour to return to France;
From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,
To show my duty in you coronation.
Yet now, I must confess, that duty done.
My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France
And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon
(Act 1, Scene two, Lines 51 – 57)The speaker intends to return to?
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Question 35 of 59
35. Question
Your leave and favour to return to France;
From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,
To show my duty in you coronation.
Yet now, I must confess, that duty done.
My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France
And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon
(Act 1, Scene two, Lines 51 – 57)The other character present at the scene is
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Question 36 of 59
36. Question
Do not forget: this visitation
Is but to what thy almost blunted purpose
But, look, amazement as thy mother sits:
O, step between her and her fighting soul:
(Act III, Scene four, Lines 107 – 110)
The speaker is
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Question 37 of 59
37. Question
Your leave and favour to return to France;
From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,
To show my duty in you coronation.
Yet now, I must confess, that duty done.
My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France
And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon
(Act 1, Scene two, Lines 51 – 57)The character being addressed is
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Question 38 of 59
38. Question
Your leave and favour to return to France;
From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,
To show my duty in you coronation.
Yet now, I must confess, that duty done.
My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France
And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon
(Act 1, Scene two, Lines 51 – 57)The speech is made in the
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Question 39 of 59
39. Question
Your leave and favour to return to France;
From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,
To show my duty in you coronation.
Yet now, I must confess, that duty done.
My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France
And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon
(Act 1, Scene two, Lines 51 – 57)“blunted purpose” implies
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Question 40 of 59
40. Question
Your leave and favour to return to France;
From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,
To show my duty in you coronation.
Yet now, I must confess, that duty done.
My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France
And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon
(Act 1, Scene two, Lines 51 – 57)“fighting soul” implies
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Question 41 of 59
41. Question
If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,
Speak to me:
If there be any good thing to be done,
That may to thee do ease and grace to me,
Speak to me:
If thou art privy to thy country’s fate,
Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid,
O, speak!
Or if thou has uphoarded in thy life
Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,
For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death
Speak of it:
(Act I, Scene one, Lines 129 – 139)The speaker is
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Question 42 of 59
42. Question
If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,
Speak to me:
If there be any good thing to be done,
That may to thee do ease and grace to me,
Speak to me:
If thou art privy to thy country’s fate,
Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid,
O, speak!
Or if thou has uphoarded in thy life
Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,
For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death
Speak of it:
(Act I, Scene one, Lines 129 – 139)The character being addressed is
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Question 43 of 59
43. Question
If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,
Speak to me:
If there be any good thing to be done,
That may to thee do ease and grace to me,
Speak to me:
If thou art privy to thy country’s fate,
Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid,
O, speak!
Or if thou has uphoarded in thy life
Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,
For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death
Speak of it:
(Act I, Scene one, Lines 129 – 139)The speech is made after
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Question 44 of 59
44. Question
If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,
Speak to me:
If there be any good thing to be done,
That may to thee do ease and grace to me,
Speak to me:
If thou art privy to thy country’s fate,
Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid,
O, speak!
Or if thou has uphoarded in thy life
Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,
For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death
Speak of it:
(Act I, Scene one, Lines 129 – 139)The speaker’s mood is one of
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Question 45 of 59
45. Question
If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,
Speak to me:
If there be any good thing to be done,
That may to thee do ease and grace to me,
Speak to me:
If thou art privy to thy country’s fate,
Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid,
O, speak!
Or if thou has uphoarded in thy life
Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,
For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death
Speak of it:
(Act I, Scene one, Lines 129 – 139)During the speech,
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Question 46 of 59
46. Question
And can you, by no drift of circumstance,
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet.
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
(Act III, Scene one, Lines 1 -4)The speaker is
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Question 47 of 59
47. Question
And can you, by no drift of circumstance,
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet.
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
(Act III, Scene one, Lines 1 -4)The character being discussed is
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Question 48 of 59
48. Question
And can you, by no drift of circumstance,
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet.
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
(Act III, Scene one, Lines 1 -4)The characters being addressed are
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Question 49 of 59
49. Question
And can you, by no drift of circumstance,
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet.
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
(Act III, Scene one, Lines 1 -4)The response given to this speech indicates that the attempt was
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Question 50 of 59
50. Question
And can you, by no drift of circumstance,
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet.
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
(Act III, Scene one, Lines 1 -4)The enquiry is about
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Question 51 of 59
51. Question
Section A: AFRICAN DRAMA
answer one question from this section
Athol fugarld: seizure bansi is dead.
Question 1: discuss the dramatic techniques employed in the play.
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The playwright employs a murder of techniques to portrays the black south Africans in an apartheid system.
These includes:
- Characterization: the uses of few characters to arouse the interest of audience in the play. There are only three characters namely Sizue, Styles and Buntu and the actions in the play is viewed from their perspectives. Styles is the dominant characters who dramatizes the industries of the oppression white apartheid regime as well as the inhuman condition of the black south African workers.
- Dramatic monologue: The uses of dramatic monologues is the dominant narrative technique employed by Athol Fugord (the playwright) to reveal the evils of the oppressive apartheid regime as well as the aspirations and hope of the oppressed black south African. This is achieved through styles utterance and actions in his several roles in the play.
- Flashback: The flashback techniques is also dominantly used in the play. The events are revealed through flashback as evident in styles reflections on the condition of the oppressive apartheid system and the exploitation of the black workers in revealed to the audience through flashback as portrayed by the black worker who is sacked it he dares the white foreigner.
- Irony: It is ironical that sizue has to use a dead man’s passport to survive and earn a living in his own country. This portrays the dehumanizing condition of the black South African.
- Symbolism: The playwright also makes use of symbolism. Styles photography studio represents a house of dreams where the suffering blacks can temporarily hold a smile which needs to be captured in a photograph. Styles was his photograph to change bad situations to enabling ones. Fugards use a photograph contains a dual symbolism of a soothing lie and a dream.
Buntus hosue symbolism a rehabilitation centre for the blacks. Cockroaches represents the oppression (white) whom styles who represents the black South African is determined to exterminate. The use of insecticides “Doom” and that cat also symbolism the blacks attempt to overcome the oppressive white regime.
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Question 52 of 59
52. Question
Question 2: discuss the use of symbols in the play.
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The play in itself is symbolical as portrayed in the title “Sizure” Bansi is Dead “Death, itself is used symbolically to represent rest and peace for the oppressed black South Africans. The inhuman conditions faced by the blacks make the wish to die. The photography studio symbolises a house of dreams where the suffering which need to be captured in a photography. Sizue Bansi as asylum seaker, finds this studio a temporarily place of refuge.
The cockroaches symbolise the oppressive white settler’s, the insecticide “Doom” applied by styles on the cockroaches represent all the futile actions taken to free black South African from the apartheid system. The “cat” symbolise the greater force needed by the black to free themselves from the white oppressive regime.
The “passbook” that the blacks are made to compulsory carry in their own native land is a symbol used to portray the evils of the apartheid regime/racial discrimination. Without a valid passport movement of black is restricted. Thus they are society and economically restricted as they can also not secure gainful employment. Buntus hose symbolise a rehabilitation centre for blacks while Buntu himself symbolise a rehabilitation officer. The playwright effectively uses symbol in the play to represent the various predicaments of black South Africans in their own native land.
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Question 53 of 59
53. Question
Joe de graft: sons and daughters
Question 3: examine the major conflicts in the play.
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There are various conflicts in the play which can be viewed from different perspective ranging from the generational gap involving choice of profession to betrayal of trust and domestic misunderstanding. The generational gap involving choice of profession is one of the major conflicts in the play. James Ofosu believes as a parent it is his right and his choice to choose a career for his children. Having choosing for the first two son’s, hee consider Aaron and Maanan’s refusal to accept his choice as a act of dissidence or insubordination. This conflicts results in the strained relationship between him and his two children.
Another conflicts in the play is the domestic conflicts between Mrs. Hannah Ofosu an Aunt Fosuwa on one hand and between James and his wife (Hannah) on the other hand. While Aunt Fosuwa argues over who has responsibility over the family, Hannah and James quarrel over his friendship with lawyer Bonu. James refuses to believe that his friend lawyer Bonu attempted to lure his daughter, Maanan into sexual activity. He conclude it’s a plot against his friend. Not too long lawyer Bonu is caught in the act by James, this betrayal of trust leads to the conflicts between James and Lawyer Bonu. The confirmation of the immortal act of Lawyer Bony by James is the climax of the play. It is also at this point that the truth of what James had earlier seen as a plot against his friend dawns on him. James had trusted his friend to the detriment of his family. He is so shattered that this conflicts is never resolved.
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Question 54 of 59
54. Question
Question 4: compare and contrast the roles of Hannah and fosuwa in the play
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Hannah and Fosuwa are in terms of their roles, attitude and disposition. Hannah in the first instance is a major character while Fosuwa is a major character in the play. Hannah is James Fosuwa wife while Fosuwa is his sister.
Hannah is a dutiful and loving wife and mother, she sees to it that her husband’s and children needs are met. She is also a good and virtuous mother, although she is close to her children and loves them very well, like a responsible mother she chides any of them that does wrong. She is a very careful woman who does not want anything that can strain the relationship between her husband and lawyer Banu. She is capable of discernment. This she recognise that Awere’s relationship with her daughter, Maanah is platonic unlie her husband, Fosuwa and lawyer Banu who think differently. Hannah represents the play wright is ideal of good womanhood. The play wright uses Hannah to project what a good wife should be. Hannah does not think that it is proper to leave her husband having lived and suffered with him for many years. She is unlike Fosuwa whose concept of marriage is flawed.
Fosuwa is a jealous and envious woman who talks too flippantly. She interferes unnecessarily in the affairs of the Ofusu household. She will not let Hannah enjoy her marriage. She urges Hannah to break her own marriage. She believe in polygamy, having unsuccessfully married three times. Also her plans regarding Hannah’s children and their friends are ill motivated. She encouraged lawyer Banu to run after maanon. She tells Maana that lawyer Banu is around to see her. She also tells the Lawyer that James is not back from the office. She creates a chance for lawyer Bony by leaving his and Maanah to talk privately. Fosuwa does not see anything bad in an old married man like Lawyer Banu marrying an eighteen years old girl for a second wife. She actively encourage Maana to be lawyer Banu second wife. The playwright presents Fosuwa a spoiler, a breaker of homes. She and lawyer Banu represent evil in the play. It is expected that with the exit of Aunt Fosuwa from the Ofus’s household, joy, virtue and togetherness will be restored.
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Question 55 of 59
55. Question
Section b:
Non-african drama
Answer one question only from this section:
Question 5: compare the character of the major and anna andreyeuna.
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The major is the husband of Anna. A long serving civil servant in charge of one of the providences of St. Petersburg. The major is an Oliver twist never satisfied with what he has. He always wants more. Anna is like the husband, she is never satisfied with what she has, she is never satisfied with her husband alone and flirts openly with Hlestakou (the Govt. Inspector) as so called. The major is not an honest civil servant as he never discharged his duties as expected of him. Anna too does not discharged her duties as a faithful wife in the home.
The major does not have a conscience or a feeling of guilt. He suggests to other civil servants that the inspector’s visit notwithstanding, the should maintain the status quo (the collection of bribe should continue as usual). Anna also lacks this feelings of guilt, she competes with her daughter for Hlestakou.
They both are ambitious, as the husband dreams of becoming a General, Anna dreams of living in the city. The major is nervous at the news of the visit of the Government Inspector. Anna on the other hand is calm even when she knows her husband is aware of her immoral activities with the Government Inspector. The major is an opportunist. He encourages Hlestakou to flirt with his wife in order to realise his dream ambition of becoming a General.
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Question 56 of 59
56. Question
Question 6: examine three comic scene in the play.
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There are several comic scenes in the play that will pass the play for a comedy. One of such scenes occur where the so called Government Inspector (Hlestakou) has no money to pay for his accumulated bills in the inn, and still threatens the landlord and the waiter for turning down his demand for more food. When food is eventually served, he still complains about it quality and not been given a good treatment by the inn keeper, even thoug he had not paid a dine for the service.
Gogol also creates another comic scene in the inn when Yosif, thinking that the landlord of the inn house reported them to the Major for their debt, quickly informs Hlestakou that the major has come to arrest and prison them. ironically, it is the major who believes Hlestakou is the Government inspector being expected from Petersburg and has come to meet him.
Another comic scene plays out where Major bribes Hlestakou with a “long of 400 Roubles scared that he is the Government Inspector, while for real, Hlestakou is a spendrift and not Government Inspector”. The play ends with a very comic scene after the interception of Hlestakou’s letter by the postmaster. Here all the characters realise their stupidity in allowing Hlestakou to dupe them.
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Question 57 of 59
57. Question
Robert bolt: a man for all seasons.
Question 7: examine the play as a conflicts between king henry’s desires and more’s principle.
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Prominent in the play is the conflict between King Henry and Sir Thomas More as a result of King Henry desires which are against More’s moral and religious principles. The conflict arises from the embition of King Henry to turn the law of the church upside down simply to ensure that he achieves his desire. The pope had initially allowed him marry Catherine his brother’s widow which was against church dogma. His current desire is to secure Catherine for her inability to bear him a son. This inturn will enable him to remarry and still be regarded as a true member of the church. The king requires every member of his council to append their signature and swear to the act of parliament which compels the Pope to recognise the need for the impending divorce. Sir Thomas More-say no, at this point More and King Henry are no collision course. thus the source of conflict, he is eventually killed for opposing the Kingh’s wish to compel the church to do what is improper. For More, it is against his moral and religious principles. It is like sending the will of God to satisfy a man. Again, to divorce Queen Catherine because she is unable to bear a male child is an unjust act. In the end, the King has his way without More’s support but More dies in the belief that he has lived and stood by the church faith and has been true to his religious principle.
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Question 58 of 59
58. Question
Question 5: examine the character of sir Thomas more and master Cromwell.
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Sir Thomas More and Master Cromwell are both legal scholars and important public officers. More is principled and God-fearing. This is portrayed in his opposition of King Henry’s unjust and immoral desire. He refuses to accept bribe.
Cromwell has no more quilt and will do anything for position and money. They are two contracting character. Master Cromwell lack of more guilt make his a willing tool in the hands of King Henry. He supports the King’s desire to re-marry which More opposes. He purposely implicates More in the bribery scandals and gets him executed. On the whole, More is a good fanly man, sincere and willing to help for a good cause and above all steadfast in his moral and religious principles. Cromwell on the other hand is not principled. He is exploitative and geared towards materialism-power, influence and money.
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Question 59 of 59
59. Question
Section c:
African poetry
Question 9: examine the poet’s use of imagery in “songs of sorrow I & ii”.
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Imagery in “songs of sorrow I & II” is a long lamentation poem. The first song is about the inequality human beings experience in the affairs of the world. The second song is a funeral dirge when the past expression his deep concern about the need to give the dead a befitting burial and the effect of death on humanity. He regrets that the ancestors have abandoned the living to suffer so much that strangers have taken over the clan.
The poet successfully conveys the above meanings through his effective uses of images. The images that confronts us in the poem is that of a suffering and dejected man. The poet is a sorrowful mood and it is this mood that gives rise to his lamentation. The desolation and helplessness that has occurred is portray right at the beginning of “songs of sorrow I”. Images like the “broken fences”, “strangers willing over our portion”, “their house falling” among others give the impression of desolation and abandonment.
A series of other images closely associated with desolation, destruction and death is further employed by the poet in succession parts of the poem. Such images like “sun and drain” that “burn” and beat respectively the gun that can no longer be fired as a result of loss of sons, desolation other plant and animal images such as the “sharp slumps”, the falling “fire” symbolising the death of an important family elder “Agosu”, the snake, the court and the vulture symbolising destruction, the “wilderness” symbolising suffering.
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