ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION . . - · SECTION I Time-l hour Directions: This section consists of selections from literary works and questions on their content, form, and style. After readi ng each passage or poem, choose the best answer to each question and then fill in the corresponding circ...
ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION ..- ·
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SECTION I
Time-l
hour
Directions: This section consists of selections from literary works and questions on their content, form, and style.
After reading each passage or poem, choose the best answer to each question and then fill in the corresponding
circle on the answer sheet
Note: Pay particular attention to the requirements of questions that contain the words NOT, LEAST, or EXCEPT.
Questions 1-10. Read the following poem
carefully before you choose your answers. The actors are a queer and jolly set,
Whose fun increases as you fume and
Prologue to a Supposed Play fret;
35 So, should they hurl at you eccentric airs,
as
My worthy hearers, -have you come tonight Just dodge as though they struck you
To feast on comedy that's brisk and light, unawares, Or jesting strive to make a pointed
hit,
ew
And gladly spend an idle hour or two
Line In viewing pictures that are just like you?
Just hold your peace and let it pass for wit
5 · If this is what you want, just let me say
Now, my good hearers, hint what I shall say next.
40 You want to hear no more? Bring on the play next?
You couldn't tum your heads a better way;
Well, here it is, and if you don't grow wiser,
"And for each cent you gave to enter here
c
You should take back a modicum of cheer,
Censure yourselves as well as the advisor.
ur
And weigh yourselves so well that you will be
(1898)
10 Arrayed against your insufficiency.
so
• pelf: wealth
But this is preaching? Well, the comic stage
Has preached through ridicule to every age.
se ia re
Man scorns his shallow deed and sordid pelf* I. The speaker indicates that the play will include
When he's employed in laughing at himself.
15· So let us preach in every way that can (A) discussions of subjects unfamiliar to
m
ur d v y
Lift man up to the dignity of man. the audience
Now, don’t be too exact, but let good sense ' (B) mockery of characters similar to the audience
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(C) ridicule of outdated literary fashions ·
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Decide the point of hon_est eminence;
And bear in mind that what is trite and true, (D) condemnation of society's
20 If well managed, is worthy through and through. unsophisticated tastes
o.
(E) celebration of the audience's desire to be
s
But to the play. It comes in five long acts, reassured
er
In which the weapons used are naked facts.
sh is
· There is no effort made to polish darts 2. The speaker anticipates the objection
That find a lodgement in deceitful hearts, that "preaching" (line 11) is
Th
H
25 Nor to put on the rouge an honest mask, (A) an inadequate examination of the human
For that would be, indeed, a fruitless task. condition
The characters are plain, as you will see, (B) a scandalous feature in a drama
a
And richly freighted with humanity; (C) an inappropriate element in a comedy
(D) an unexpected and annoying interruption
(E) a deplorable practice in any social context
And, by the way, their actions prove in making
30 A man of noble parts; the undertaking Is
such that nature seldom deigns to run
The same material on from sire to son.
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