Attempt a Question from at Least All the Books You Have Done

Revision questions. Attempt a question from at least all the books you have done. R SHERIDAN: The School for Scandal 1. How does Sheridan use dramatic techniques to sustain the reader’s interest in the play The School for Scandal? (33marks) 2. It is with contempt not with admiration that Sheridan intends us to regard Mr. Surface. Show if you agree with this view using ample illustrations from the play The School for Scandal. (33marks)

MOLIERE: The Imaginary Invalid 3. Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow. BER. Well now! brother, since your Mr. Purgon has fallen out with you, will you not give me leave to speak to you about the match which is proposed for my niece. ARG. No, brother: I mean to place her in a convent, for having run counter to my wishes. I perceive well enough that there is some love-affair in the case; and I discovered a certain secret interview which they do not know that I have discovered. BER. Well! brother; and suppose there is some slight inclination, would that be so very criminal? And can there be aught in it to offend you, when all this aims only at what is honourable, marriage. ARG. Be that as it may, brother, she shall be a nun; that is a settled thing. BER. You wish to please some one. ARG. I understand you. You always come back to that, and you dislike my wife. BER. Well then! yes, brother: since I am to speak frankly to you, it is your wife I am alluding to; and I can no more bear your infatuation for physic, than your infatuation for her and see you running headlong into all the snares which she spreads for you. TOI. Ah! Sir, do not talk about my mistress; she is a woman of whom nothing can be said, a woman without any guile, and who loves my master, who loves him … one cannot express it. ARG. Just ask her how she caresses me. TOI. That is true. ARG. What uneasiness my illness causes her. TOI. Assuredly. ARG. And the care and the pains she takes about me. TOI. To be sure.

Questions: (a) Place the passage in context. (b) Comment on the language and style in the passage. (c) What is revealed about the characters in the passage? (d) “see you running headlong into all the snares which she spreads for you” Who is she and what snares has she spread? (e) What is the relevance of this passage to the rest of the play?

1 W SHAKESPEARE: Romeo and Juliet 4. Discuss the implications of the enmity between the Montagues and the Capulets. What lessons can be drawn from this antagonism? 5. How effective do you find Shakespeare’s portrayal of the relationship between Romeo and Juliet. Refer closely to one scene in your answer.