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10/20
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Office du Baccalauréat du Sénégal
Coeff 6
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1In Cheikh Hamidou Kane's foundational Senegalese novel L'Aventure ambiguë (1961), what represents the central spiritual and intellectual crisis experienced by Samba Diallo?
A.The tragic tearing of the individual torn between traditional Koranic Islamic spirituality and Western Cartesian rationalism.
B.The financial struggle to establish modern commercial agriculture in the Diallobé country.
C.A military rebellion against French colonial officers occupying his homeland.
D.A dispute over family land inheritance following the death of the Chevalier.
Explanation: In L'Aventure ambiguë, Samba Diallo's journey embodies the existential tragedy of cultural hybridity: formed in the strict ascetic spirituality of the Koranic school under Thierno (the Master of the Diallobé), his subsequent exposure to Western philosophy and rationalism in Paris disrupts his interior spiritual unity, leading to his symbolic demise.
2In Mariama Bâ's epistolary novel Une si longue lettre (1979), how does the protagonist Ramatoulaye assert her dignity following her husband Modou Fall's betrayal?
A.By rejecting the proposal of Daouda Dieng and refusing to enter a marriage based merely on convenience or polygynous arrangements.
B.By immediately leaving Senegal to pursue a literary career abroad in France.
C.By publicly challenging the legal authority of the Islamic courts during the funeral ceremonies.
D.By cutting all ties with her lifelong friend Aïssatou to avoid reminders of the past.
Explanation: Ramatoulaye exercises her autonomy and moral agency by declining Daouda Dieng's proposal, prioritizing emotional sincerity and refusing to inflict on another woman the pain she herself experienced through polygyny, while maintaining her steadfast correspondence with Aïssatou.
3In Léopold Sédar Senghor's poetry (such as Chants d'ombre and Éthiopiques), what aesthetic device is fundamental to evoking African lyrical cadence?
A.The use of musical accompaniment notations (such as the kora and balafon) and rhythmic repetition.
B.The strict adherence to French Parnassian sonnet rhymes and decasyllabic meters.
C.The total rejection of metaphors in favor of minimalist, unadorned prose.
D.The systematic avoidance of references to African flora, fauna, and ancestral cosmology.
Explanation: Senghor frequently prefaces his poems with musical cues (e.g., 'pour kora et balafon') and relies on incantatory repetitions, anaphora, and flowing versets to recreate the rhythmic, communal, and emotional pulse of African oral traditions within the French language.
4In Sembène Ousmane's Les Bouts de bois de Dieu (1960), what unique narrative choice distinguishes the representation of the historical 1947–1948 railway strike?
A.The strike is portrayed through a collective, polyphonic protagonist where women play a decisive revolutionary role.
B.The novel focuses exclusively on the solitary internal monologue of a French colonial inspector.
C.The narrative uses an allegorical fable format featuring anthropomorphic animals.
D.The struggle is portrayed as an unmitigated disaster led by corrupt local chiefs.
Explanation: Les Bouts de bois de Dieu departs from individualist heroics by depicting the collective consciousness of the workers and their families along the Dakar-Niger line. The heroic march of the women from Thiès to Dakar demonstrates that social liberation and trade union victory depend on the empowerment of women.
5In the methodology of the French literary dissertation (dissertation littéraire), which structure is characterized by the tripartite progression 'Thèse — Antithèse — Synthèse'?
A.The dialectical plan (le plan dialectique).
B.The thematic plan (le plan thématique).
C.The analytical plan (le plan analytique).
D.The comparative plan (le plan comparatif).
Explanation: The dialectical plan examines a contestable assertion by developing an initial affirmation (thèse), addressing counter-arguments or opposing perspectives (antithèse), and resolving the contradiction through a higher synthesis or nuanced reconciliation (synthèse/dépassement).
6Which stylistic figure of speech (figure de style) is instantiated in the sentence: 'Il faut manger pour vivre et non pas vivre pour manger'?
A.A chiasmus (le chiasme).
B.A zeugma (l'attelage).
C.An oxymoron (l'oxymore).
D.A hyperbaton (l'hyperbate).
Explanation: A chiasmus is a rhetorical figure based on an inverted, mirror-like symmetry of syntactic or semantic elements following the pattern A-B / B'-A' (manger [A] pour vivre [B] / vivre [B'] pour manger [A']).
7In classical French versification, what is the term for a pause dividing a twelve-syllable Alexandrine line into two equal six-syllable hemistiches?
A.The caesura (la césure).
B.The enjambement (l'enjambement).
C.The dieresis (la diérèse).
D.The synaeresis (la synérèse).
Explanation: In classical French poetry, the caesura (césure) marks the structural rhythmic pause at the midpoint of the Alexandrine (after the sixth syllable), dividing the verse into two equal halves termed hemistiches (hémistiches).
8In Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (1939), how does the poet redefine the historically derogatory label 'nègre'?
A.By transmuting the racial insult into a proud, defiant symbol of universal human emancipation and cultural reclamation.
B.By arguing that the term should be erased from dictionaries and never uttered again.
C.By adopting an apologetic tone to negotiate social assimilation into French Parisian salons.
D.By proposing a purely biological hierarchy inverting European colonial doctrine.
Explanation: Césaire seized the colonial racial slur and forged the concept of 'Négritude', transforming an instrument of humiliation into a militant affirmation of Black historical consciousness, dignity, and cosmic communion with the earth.
9According to Gérard Genette's narratological framework, what type of focalization is present when the narrator knows and reveals more than any single character could possibly perceive?
A.Zero focalization (focalisation zéro / narrateur omniscient).
B.Internal focalization (focalisation interne).
C.External focalization (focalisation externe).
D.Multiple focalization (focalisation multiple).
Explanation: In zero focalization (often termed omniscient narration), the narrator's knowledge is unrestricted: the narrator can see into the minds of multiple characters simultaneously, know past and future events, and move freely through space and time.
10In Camara Laye's autobiographical work L'Enfant noir (1953), what is the function of the little black serpent that visits his father's workshop?
A.It serves as a sacred spiritual totem and guide embodying the ancestral genius of the blacksmith clan.
B.It acts as a venomous hazard symbolizing the impending violence of the colonial administration.
C.It represents a biblical temptation that leads the young boy to abandon his native village.
D.It is a fictional hallucination caused by the extreme heat of the forge.
Explanation: In Malinké cosmology depicted in L'Enfant noir, the little black snake is the tutelary spirit and totem of the blacksmiths (Kaba clan), bestowing clairvoyance, technical mastery, and spiritual protection on Camara Laye's father.
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