2022 Pentathlon Literature

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,

And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,

And wild plum trees in tremulous white,

Robins will wear their feathery fire

Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one

Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree

If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,

Would scarcely know that we were gone.

The passage contains each of the following rhetorical techniques EXCEPT

• alliteration

• polysyndeton

• onomatopoeia

• cacophony

• personification

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,

And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,

And wild plum trees in tremulous white,

Robins will wear their feathery fire

Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one

Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree

If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,

Would scarcely know that we were gone.

The mood of the poem is BEST described as

• reflective

• sorrowful

• desolate

• joyful

• casual

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,

And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,

And wild plum trees in tremulous white,

Robins will wear their feathery fire

Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one

Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree

If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,

Would scarcely know that we were gone.

A theme of the poem would be that

• nature does not need mankind

• humankind can be self-destructive

• climate change threatens the earth

• both a and b

Refer to the novel: A Long Walk to Water.

In his village school, Salva was ignoring the lesson in Arabic mainly because

• rival tribes used that language

• he already understood the lesson

• he heard distant gunfire

• he was too hungry to concentrate

• he was thinking of games he would play with friends

In the novel, A Long Walk to Water:

The families of both Nya and Salva...

• fought with the Jur-Chol

• feared lions

• left their villages in the dry season

• migrated to Ethiopia

• fought with the Jur-Chol and feared lions

In the novel, A Long Walk to Water:

The migrants in the camp in Ethiopia were mostly men because

• women could not keep pace with the travelers

• women had to tend to babies

• men were desirable captives of the enemies

• women had to maintain crops at home

• men could get jobs in Ethiopia

In the novel, A Long Walk to Water:

Salva could recognize other members of the Dinka tribe first by their

• facial scars

• language or accents

• height and build

• necklaces or ornaments

• hair styles

In the novel, A Long Walk to Water:

When crossing the Akoba desert, Salva was troubled most by

• constant heat

• sore feet

• rationing water

• increasing fatigue

• the unchanging landscape

In the novel, A Long Walk to Water:

Salva learned his motto of taking things "one step at a time" from

• his mother

• his uncle

• Marisal

• his father

• Buksa

In the novel, A Long Walk to Water:

Salva and other lost boys were suddenly forced to risk death by drowning, gunfire, and crocodiles by the

• Somalians

• Kenyans

• rebel army

• north Sudanese

• Ethiopians