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Topics covered

  • character development,
  • literary themes,
  • narrative voice,
  • literary conventions,
  • interpretation of texts,
  • character arcs,
  • character roles,
  • themes in literature,
  • literary criticism,
  • mood and tone
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SS3 Literature Exam Question

Literature questions
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
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Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd

Topics covered

  • character development,
  • literary themes,
  • narrative voice,
  • literary conventions,
  • interpretation of texts,
  • character arcs,
  • character roles,
  • themes in literature,
  • literary criticism,
  • mood and tone
  • Multiple Choice Questions 1-4
  • Multiple Choice Questions 5-8
  • Multiple Choice Questions 9-11
  • Multiple Choice Questions 12-16
  • Multiple Choice Questions 17-20
  • Multiple Choice Questions 21-25
  • Multiple Choice Questions 26-30
  • Multiple Choice Questions 31-35
  • Multiple Choice Questions 36-40
  • Multiple Choice Questions 41-45
  • Multiple Choice Questions 46-50

Please follow the template to enter your questions and answers,and kindly look through several

tips before you start the work.


1. Please do not modify the characters in the grey area.
2. Please fill the question type exactly as the example if you want to add more questions.

Question Type Questions

1. Multiple Question: something a character says on stage that is meant for the
Choice audience alone is

Choices: a soliloquy
A mime
An epilogue
An aside

2. Multiple Question: a short play performed in the pause between the act of a longer
Choice play is

Choices: interlude
denouement
prologue
epilogue

3. Multiple Question: The most intense part of a conflict is the


Choice
Choices: climax
resolution
denouement
deus ex machina

4. Multiple Question: I feel a million times better than I felt yesterday is


Choice
Choices: a hyperbole
an apostrophe
a euphemism
an irony
5. Multiple Question: identify the odd item:
Choice
Choices: literary appreciation
third-person narrative
first-person narrative
epistolary technique

6. Multiple Question: a pause within a line of poetry is


Choice
Choices: a caesura
An alliteration
A metre
An assonance

7. Multiple Question: a recurring idea, image, or a group of images that unifies a work
Choice of literature is

Choices: motif
Allusion
Legend
anecdote

8. Multiple Question: an inscription on a tombstone is an


Choice
Choices: epitaph
Epistle
Epigram
ode
9. Multiple Question: Read the extract below and answer questions 9-11
Choice What happened to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
The mood of the poem is one of

Choices: doubt
joy
anger
certainty

10. Multiple Question: Read the extract below and answer questions 9-11
Choice What happened to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
The dominant literary device is

Choices: the rhetorical question


The epithet
Verbal irony
Paradox

11. Multiple Question: Read the extract below and answer questions 9-11
Choice What happened to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Does it stink like a rotten meat? Makes use of the sense of

Choices: smell
Taste
Touch
sight
12. Multiple Question: a dramatist is someone who …..plays
Choice
Choices: writes
Directs
Commissions
promotes

13. Multiple Question: Nando’s family lives within the lower income bracket illustrates
Choice
Choices: euphemism
Sarcasm
Allusion
climax

14. Multiple Question: a dramatic performance without words is


Choice
Choices: mime
An aside
A monologue
A soliloquy

15. Multiple Question: the lawyer addressed the bench illustrates


Choice
Choices: metonymy
Simile
Oxymoron
alliteration

16. Multiple Question: which of the following is common to all forms of literature
Choice
Choices: language
Chorus
Action
narrator
17. Multiple Question: the three major forms of literature are
Choice
Choices: poetry, drama, prose
Tragedy, comedy, tragic-comedy
Poetry, drama, folktales
Drama, lyric, fiction

18. Multiple Question: beauty in poetry depends mainly on


Choice
Choices: expression and rhythm
Length and theme
Vowels and consonants
Mood and verse form

19. Multiple Question: the basic elements of drama are


Choice
Choices: characters, acts, and scenes
Dialogue, chorus, plot
Character, action, setting
Character, monologue, plot

20. Multiple Question: the state of mind of a poet can be described as


Choice
Choices: mood
Style
Setting
theme
21. Multiple Question: Read the passage below and answer questions 21 to 25
Choice When he was little, he would ask his mother. sometimes as he lay in the
cold little room and looked up at her as she sat beside the bed stroking his
hair why two boys from his class had thrown stones at a dog; or why on
another occasion a gang of them had broken into an empty house, smashing
the thick door which had curved moldings on the front which had been
turned by carpenters years before; or why he had ended up in a fight which
had begun when a little girl had shouted names at him which made no
sense about his house and his mother and others had joined in and he had
rushed at them, scattering them as some shrieked and some laughed and he
flailed about with his hard little fists and tears in his eyes. His mother
would smile; say 'shhh' and he would drift to sleep with the heart shape of
her face imprinted on his mind.

The dominant feeling in the passage is that of

Choices: nostalgia
Anger
Expectancy
fear
22. Multiple Question: Read the passage below and answer questions 21 to 25
Choice When he was little, he would ask his mother. sometimes as he lay in the
cold little room and looked up at her as she sat beside the bed stroking his
hair why two boys from his class had thrown stones at a dog; or why on
another occasion a gang of them had broken into an empty house, smashing
the thick door which had curved moldings on the front which had been
turned by carpenters years before; or why he had ended up in a fight which
had begun when a little girl had shouted names at him which made no
sense about his house and his mother and others had joined in and he had
rushed at them, scattering them as some shrieked and some laughed and he
flailed about with his hard little fists and tears in his eyes. His mother
would smile; say 'shhh' and he would drift to sleep with the heart shape of
her face imprinted on his mind.

The feeling is conveyed by the

Choices: tender care of his mother


Mouldings on the door
Boy’s action
Little girl’s taunts

23. Multiple Question: Read the passage below and answer questions 21 to 25
Choice When he was little, he would ask his mother. sometimes as he lay in the
cold little room and looked up at her as she sat beside the bed stroking his
hair why two boys from his class had thrown stones at a dog; or why on
another occasion a gang of them had broken into an empty house, smashing
the thick door which had curved moldings on the front which had been
turned by carpenters years before; or why he had ended up in a fight which
had begun when a little girl had shouted names at him which made no
sense about his house and his mother and others had joined in and he had
rushed at them, scattering them as some shrieked and some laughed and he
flailed about with his hard little fists and tears in his eyes. His mother
would smile; say 'shhh' and he would drift to sleep with the heart shape of
her face imprinted on his mind.

The dominant literary device in the passage is

Choices: parallelism
Personification
Antithesis
litotes
24. Multiple Question: Read the passage below and answer questions 21 to 25
Choice When he was little, he would ask his mother. sometimes as he lay in the
cold little room and looked up at her as she sat beside the bed stroking his
hair why two boys from his class had thrown stones at a dog; or why on
another occasion a gang of them had broken into an empty house, smashing
the thick door which had curved moldings on the front which had been
turned by carpenters years before; or why he had ended up in a fight which
had begun when a little girl had shouted names at him which made no
sense about his house and his mother and others had joined in and he had
rushed at them, scattering them as some shrieked and some laughed and he
flailed about with his hard little fists and tears in his eyes. His mother
would smile; say 'shhh' and he would drift to sleep with the heart shape of
her face imprinted on his mind.

…and he had rushed at them, scattering them as some shrieked and some
laughed illustrates

Choices: onomatopoeia
Climax
Metaphor
metonymy

25. Multiple Question: Read the passage below and answer questions 21 to 25
Choice When he was little, he would ask his mother. sometimes as he lay in the
cold little room and looked up at her as she sat beside the bed stroking his
hair why two boys from his class had thrown stones at a dog; or why on
another occasion a gang of them had broken into an empty house, smashing
the thick door which had curved moldings on the front which had been
turned by carpenters years before; or why he had ended up in a fight which
had begun when a little girl had shouted names at him which made no
sense about his house and his mother and others had joined in and he had
rushed at them, scattering them as some shrieked and some laughed and he
flailed about with his hard little fists and tears in his eyes. His mother
would smile; say 'shhh' and he would drift to sleep with the heart shape of
her face imprinted on his mind.

The main character is

Choices: inquisitive
Playful
Sad
humorous
26. Multiple Question: Read the poem below and answer questions 26 to 30.
Choice We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile
And mouths with myriad subtleties,

Why should the world be over-wise,


In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.

We smile but O great god, our cries


To thee from tortured souls arise
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet and long the mile,
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!

The poem is about

Choices: appearances
Debtors
dreams
costumes
27. Multiple Question: Read the poem below and answer questions 26 to 30.
Choice We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile
And mouths with myriad subtleties,

Why should the world be over-wise,


In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.

We smile but O great god, our cries


To thee from tortured souls arise
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet and long the mile,
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!

The poet’s tone is

Choices: complaint
Supplicatory
Defiant
conciliatory
28. Multiple Question: Read the poem below and answer questions 26 to 30.
Choice We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile
And mouths with myriad subtleties,

Why should the world be over-wise,


In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.

We smile but O great god, our cries


To thee from tortured souls arise
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet and long the mile,
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!

The rhyme scheme of the first stanza is

Choices: aabbc
aabcc
ababac
abbac
29. Multiple Question: Read the poem below and answer questions 26 to 30.
Choice We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile
And mouths with myriad subtleties,

Why should the world be over-wise,


In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.

We smile but O great god, our cries


To thee from tortured souls arise
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet and long the mile,
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!

The dominant mood is one of

Choices: fear
Sadness
Joy
optimism
30. Multiple Question: Read the poem below and answer questions 26 to 30.
Choice We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile
And mouths with myriad subtleties,

Why should the world be over-wise,


In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.

We smile but O great god, our cries


To thee from tortured souls arise
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet and long the mile,
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!

‘We wear the mask that grins and lies’ illustrate

Choices: personification
Irony
Synecdoche
alliteration

31. Multiple Question: A Midsummer Night's Read the extract below and answer
Choice questions 31 to 35.
X: You do impeach your modesty too much,
To leave the city and commit yourself
Into the hands of one that loves you not;
To trust the opportunity of night
And the ill counsel of a desert place

Y: With the rich worth of your virginity.


Your virtue is my privilege: for that
it is not night when I do see your face,
Therefore I think I am not in the night;

Speaker X is

Choices: Demetrius
Hermia
Lysander
Philostrate
32. Multiple Question: A Midsummer Night's Read the extract below and answer
Choice questions 31 to 35.
X: You do impeach your modesty too much,
To leave the city and commit yourself
Into the hands of one that loves you not;
To trust the opportunity of night
And the ill counsel of a desert place

Y: With the rich worth of your virginity.


Your virtue is my privilege: for that
it is not night when I do see your face,
Therefore I think I am not in the night;

Speaker Y is

Choices: Helena
Titania
Peace blossom
Hippolyta

33. Multiple Question: A Midsummer Night's Read the extract below and answer
Choice questions 31 to 35.
X: You do impeach your modesty too much,
To leave the city and commit yourself
Into the hands of one that loves you not;
To trust the opportunity of night
And the ill counsel of a desert place

Y: With the rich worth of your virginity.


Your virtue is my privilege: for that
it is not night when I do see your face,
Therefore I think I am not in the night;

Speaker X sees speaker Y

Choices: as a pas lover


As a pretender
For the first time
For the last time
34. Multiple Question: A Midsummer Night's Read the extract below and answer
Choice questions 31 to 35.
X: You do impeach your modesty too much,
To leave the city and commit yourself
Into the hands of one that loves you not;
To trust the opportunity of night
And the ill counsel of a desert place

Y: With the rich worth of your virginity.


Your virtue is my privilege: for that
it is not night when I do see your face,
Therefore I think I am not in the night;

Both speakers are in the woods

Choices: for different reason


To hide from each other
For the same reason
35. Multiple Question: A Midsummer Night's Read the extract below and answer
Choice questions 31 to 35.
X: You do impeach your modesty too much,
To leave the city and commit yourself
Into the hands of one that loves you not;
To trust the opportunity of night
And the ill counsel of a desert place

Y: With the rich worth of your virginity.


Your virtue is my privilege: for that
it is not night when I do see your face,
Therefore I think I am not in the night;

Night evolves in the speakers’

Choices: contracting feelings


Huge responsibility
Despairing thoughts
Erotic feelings
36. Multiple Question: Read the extract below and answer questions 36 to 40
Choice But, masters, here are our parts, and I am to entreat you, request you, and
desire you, to con them by to-morrow night; and meet me in the place
wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight. There will we rehearse: for if
we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with company, and Our devices
known.
(Act I, Scene two Lines 79-84)

The speaker is

Choices: Quince
Bottom
Pease blossom
Puck

37. Multiple Question: Read the extract below and answer questions 36 to 40
Choice But, masters, here are our parts, and I am to entreat you, request you, and
desire you, to con them by to-morrow night; and meet me in the place
wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight. There will we rehearse: for if
we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with company, and Our devices
known.
(Act I, Scene two Lines 79-84)

The speaker is addressing

Choices: actors
Painters
artists
writers
38. Multiple Question: Read the extract below and answer questions 36 to 40
Choice But, masters, here are our parts, and I am to entreat you, request you, and
desire you, to con them by to-morrow night; and meet me in the place
wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight. There will we rehearse: for if
we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with company, and Our devices
known.
(Act I, Scene two Lines 79-84)

They intend to rehearse the play

Choices: Pyramus and Thisby


A midsummer night’s dream
The tragedy of lovers
The battle of royal
39. Multiple Question: Read the extract below and answer questions 36 to 40
Choice But, masters, here are our parts, and I am to entreat you, request you, and
desire you, to con them by to-morrow night; and meet me in the place
wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight. There will we rehearse: for if
we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with company, and Our devices
known.
(Act I, Scene two Lines 79-84)

The rehearsal is in preparation for

Choices: Theseus’ wedding


Egeus’ acceptance of Lysander
The dance of the fairies
Titania waking up from dream

40. Multiple Question: Read the extract below and answer questions 36 to 40
Choice But, masters, here are our parts, and I am to entreat you, request you, and
desire you, to con them by to-morrow night; and meet me in the place
wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight. There will we rehearse: for if
we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with company, and Our devices
known.
(Act I, Scene two Lines 79-84)

The main actors will be

Choices: Quince and Bottom


Snug and Snout
Philostrate and Starvelling
Mustardseed
41. Multiple Question: Read the extract below and answer questions 41 to 45
Choice X: I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again;
Mine ear is much enamoured of thy note;
So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;
And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me
On the first view, to say, to swear, I love thee.

Y: Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that: ...
(Act llI, Scene One, Lines 116-121)

Speaker X is

Choices: Titania
Hippolyta
Snout
Oberon

42. Multiple Question: Read the extract below and answer questions 41 to 45
Choice X: I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again;
Mine ear is much enamoured of thy note;
So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;
And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me
On the first view, to say, to swear, I love thee.

Y: Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that: ...
(Act llI, Scene One, Lines 116-121)

Speaker X has just

Choices: woken up from an induced sleep


Escaped from the city
Fallen into a world of dreams
Abandoned a loved one
43. Multiple Question: Read the extract below and answer questions 41 to 45
Choice X: I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again;
Mine ear is much enamored of thy note;
So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;
And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me
On the first view, to say, to swear, I love thee.

Y: Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that: ...
(Act llI, Scene One, Lines 116-121)

Speaker Y is

Choices: Bottom
Quince
Lysander
Demetrius

44. Multiple Question: Read the extract below and answer questions 41 to 45
Choice X: I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again;
Mine ear is much enamoured of thy note;
So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;
And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me
On the first view, to say, to swear, I love thee.

Y: Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that: ...
(Act llI, Scene One, Lines 116-121)

Speaker Y is a member of

Choices: the group of actors


Theseus retinue
Titania retinue
The group of lovers
45. Multiple Question: Read the extract below and answer questions 41 to 45
Choice X: I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again;
Mine ear is much enamoured of thy note;
So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;
And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me
On the first view, to say, to swear, I love thee.

Y: Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that: ...
(Act llI, Scene One, Lines 116-121)

Speaker X’s speech can be described as

Choices: parody
Satire
Paradox
conceit

46. Multiple Question: Read the extract below and answer questions 46 to 50.
Choice If we offend, it is with our good will.
That you should think, we come not to offend,
But with good will. To show our simple skill,
That is the true beginning of our end.
Consider then, we come but in despite.
We do not come, as minding to content you,
Our true intent is.
(Act V, Scene One, Lines 108-114)

The speaker is

Choices: Quince
Flute
Bottom
Philostrate
47. Multiple Question: Read the extract below and answer questions 46 to 50.
Choice If we offend, it is with our good will.
That you should think, we come not to offend,
But with good will. To show our simple skill,
That is the true beginning of our end.
Consider then, we come but in despite.
We do not come, as minding to content you,
Our true intent is.
(Act V, Scene One, Lines 108-114)

The speech is part of the

Choices: prologue
Epilogue
Exposition
Lyric
48. Multiple Question: Read the extract below and answer questions 46 to 50.
Choice If we offend, it is with our good will.
That you should think, we come not to offend,
But with good will. To show our simple skill,
That is the true beginning of our end.
Consider then, we come but in despite.
We do not come, as minding to content you,
Our true intent is.
(Act V, Scene One, Lines 108-114)

The speaker is involved in putting on

Choices: a play
A scene
Skit
An act
49. Multiple Question: Read the extract below and answer questions 46 to 50.
Choice If we offend, it is with our good will.
That you should think, we come not to offend,
But with good will. To show our simple skill,
That is the true beginning of our end.
Consider then, we come but in despite.
We do not come, as minding to content you,
Our true intent is.
(Act V, Scene One, Lines 108-114)

The occasion is

Choices: the celebration of the royal marriage


The king’s decision to banish Hermia
Oberon’s threat to punish Titania
Titania falling in love with Bottom

50. Multiple Question: Read the extract below and answer questions 46 to 50.
Choice If we offend, it is with our good will.
That you should think, we come not to offend,
But with good will. To show our simple skill,
That is the true beginning of our end.
Consider then, we come but in despite.
We do not come, as minding to content you,
Our true intent is.
(Act V, Scene One, Lines 108-114)

The speech is

Choices: comic
Romantic
Satiric
tragic

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