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Death and the King's Horseman Quiz 1

1 Soyinka is
Nigerian

Ugandan

Rwandan

Kenyan
2 The play was written in
1946

1975

1980

1960
3 The play is based on true events from
1980

1960

1964

1946
4 Which country colonized Nigeria?
Britain

The U.S.

Belgium

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

4

3

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

cockerel

horse

dog
7 Where does the first act take place?
Elesin's home

The party

England

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

Despair

White slavers

Christianity
9 One of the metaphors in act I is the world
cracking in half

exploding

falling into darkness

going off course
10 Elesin chants the story of the
Not-I bird

giraffe and the lion

woman and man

stars
11 All of the following say "Not I" except
the courtesan

Elesin

the farmer

a kinsman
12 The Not-I bird brings tidings of
death

power

birth

bad weather
13 Elesin claims to be the master of
his fate

the white man

women

all the land
14 Who does Elesin go to keep company?
The Bride

Iyaloja

The King

His son
15 Elesin becomes annoyed when the women say he is a man of
handsomeness

honor

power

wisdom
16 Who is Iyaloja?
Elesin's daughter

Olunde's wife

The Bride

The mother of the marketplace
17 Elesin rejects the womens' claims of honor because of
his humility

his misdeeds

his attire

his age
18 The marketplace is a metaphor for
Hell

Heaven

Elesin's world

Family
19 Elesin is distracted by
a beautiful woman

the praise-singer

his son

his own fears
20 The woman Elesin lusts after is
related to him

very young

betrothed

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

She sends the girl away

She gives her blessing

She decides not to intervene
22 When the reader first meets Pilkings what is he doing?
Dancing

Sleeping

Arguing

Reading
23 Who is Amusa?
The steward boy

An aide-de-camp

An African constable

The Prince
24 What horrifies Amusa about Mr. and Mrs. Pilkings?
What they are eating

What they are doing

What they are wearing

What they are saying
25 The egungun is part of
a dead cult

Elesin's duties

Christianity

Nigerian literature

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 did d girls do to amusa

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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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