Literature In English Practice Tests (Literary Appreciation) Questions with Answers and Explanations

'Careened,
These oily tears
Dripping down the tears on your depressed
face,
Will one day be staunched, I swear!'

- Ibiwari Ikiriko, Oily Tears.

The tone of the poet is ______

A. optimistic    B. supplicatory   C. sympathetic    D. piteous

'I am alone
And the murmur of my lips
Carry song and tears homewards
From a plain away from home'

- Okogbule Wonodi: Lament for Shola

The poet - persona here expresses a feeling of ______

A. elation    B. anger   C. nostalgia    D. sorrow

'If I can fasten but one cup upon him with
that which he had drunk tonight already
He'll be as full of quarrel and offence As
my young mistress' dog...'

- Shakespeare, Othello

From the statement above it can be inferred that the speaker is _____

A. disobedient    B. quarrelsome   C. servile    D. scheming

'But there was stillness about Ralph as
he sat that marked him out: there was
his size and attractive appearance; and
most obscurely, yet powerfully, there was
the conch. The being that had blown that,
had sat waiting for them on the
Platform with the delicate thing balanced
on his knees, was set apart.'

- Golding, Lord of the Flies

In the passage above, the conch symbolises _____

A. bestiality   B. authority    C. dictatorship     D. civilization

The old man slept in his favourite chair
The wind ran its fingers through his
hair
He looked like a tree gone dry of sap
And his hands were dry upon his lap

The rhyme scheme of the poem above is _____

A. bbaa     B. aabb     C. abab     D. baba