Death and the King’s Horseman Quizzes

Death and the King's Horseman Quiz 1

1 Soyinka is
Ugandan

Nigerian

Kenyan

Rwandan
2 The play was written in
1980

1975

1960

1946
3 The play is based on true events from
1964

1960

1946

1980
4 Which country colonized Nigeria?
France

Belgium

The U.S.

Britain
5 How many acts are there in the play?
2

3

4

5
6 The first animal Elesin is compared to by the praise-singer is the
zebra

cockerel

dog

horse
7 Where does the first act take place?
The marketplace

The party

Elesin's home

England
8 What does the praise-singer say took away the heart of their race?
Disease

Christianity

Despair

White slavers
9 One of the metaphors in act I is the world
falling into darkness

cracking in half

going off course

exploding
10 Elesin chants the story of the
Not-I bird

stars

giraffe and the lion

woman and man
11 All of the following say "Not I" except
the courtesan

the farmer

Elesin

a kinsman
12 The Not-I bird brings tidings of
bad weather

death

power

birth
13 Elesin claims to be the master of
all the land

his fate

women

the white man
14 Who does Elesin go to keep company?
His son

The King

Iyaloja

The Bride
15 Elesin becomes annoyed when the women say he is a man of
handsomeness

power

honor

wisdom
16 Who is Iyaloja?
The mother of the marketplace

Olunde's wife

The Bride

Elesin's daughter
17 Elesin rejects the womens' claims of honor because of
his humility

his attire

his misdeeds

his age
18 The marketplace is a metaphor for
Heaven

Elesin's world

Family

Hell
19 Elesin is distracted by
his own fears

a beautiful woman

his son

the praise-singer
20 The woman Elesin lusts after is
related to him

betrothed

Olunde's wife

very young
21 How does Iyaloja ultimately respond to Elesin's desire for the woman?
She refuses to give her blessing

She decides not to intervene

She gives her blessing

She sends the girl away
22 When the reader first meets Pilkings what is he doing?
Sleeping

Dancing

Reading

Arguing
23 Who is Amusa?
An aide-de-camp

The Prince

An African constable

The steward boy
24 What horrifies Amusa about Mr. and Mrs. Pilkings?
What they are wearing

What they are saying

What they are eating

What they are doing
25 The egungun is part of
Elesin's duties

Christianity

Nigerian literature

a dead cult

an essay discussing which theme of duty is interwoven with the motifs of death, ritual, procreation and fertility in death and the kings horseman

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What are the dramatic techniques in the play

Wole Soyinka tells his play "Death and the King's Horseman" in language that is simple, but deeply poetic. This is done for a few different reasons. The first is that many of the characters in the play are uneducated, and so simple language speaks...

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Death and the King's Horseman

by Wole Soyinka

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