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10/20
Minimum weighted average required for immediate admission (Premier Groupe)
Office du Baccalauréat du Sénégal
Coeff 6
Coefficient for both French and Philosophy in Série L1b
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5,000 FCFA
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1Which Senegalese poet and statesman co-founded the Négritude movement and authored the poetry collection 'Chants d'ombre' (1945)?
A.Léopold Sédar Senghor
B.Birago Diop
C.David Diop
D.Ousmane Sembène
Explanation: Léopold Sédar Senghor co-founded the Négritude movement alongside Aimé Césaire and Léon-Gontran Damas during their student years in Paris in the 1930s. His debut collection 'Chants d'ombre' was published in 1945.
2In literary rhetoric, which figure of speech brings together two contradictory terms within the same grammatical phrase, such as 'cette obscure clarté'?
A.Chiasme
B.Oxymore
C.Litote
D.Métonymie
Explanation: An oxymoron (oxymore) unites two conceptually antithetical words within a single syntagm or immediate grammatical unit (e.g., Corneille's famous line 'Cette obscure clarté qui tombe des étoiles' in Le Cid).
3In Cheikh Hamidou Kane's seminal philosophical novel 'L'Aventure ambiguë' (1961), who is the young protagonist torn between traditional Islamic Diallobé spiritual education and Western French schooling?
A.Fama Doumbouya
B.Thierno
C.Samba Diallo
D.Bakayoko
Explanation: Samba Diallo is the aristocratic Diallobé protagonist of 'L'Aventure ambiguë' who begins his training under the spiritual master Thierno before being sent to the French colonial school, ultimately experiencing deep existential and spiritual fragmentation.
4Which seventeenth-century French playwright is celebrated for establishing the tragic rules of classical theater in masterpieces such as 'Andromaque', 'Phèdre', and 'Britannicus'?
A.Pierre Corneille
B.Molière
C.Nicolas Boileau
D.Jean Racine
Explanation: Jean Racine is the preeminent classical French tragedian known for psychological depth, relentless dramatic fatality, and strict adherence to the classical three unities in plays like 'Andromaque' (1667) and 'Phèdre' (1677).
5Mariama Bâ's award-winning novel 'Une si longue lettre' (1979) is composed in which literary genre and form?
A.An epistolary novel structured as a confessional letter from Ramatoulaye to Aïssatou
B.An epic verse chronicle describing the pre-colonial kingdom of Cayor
C.A dramatic play in five acts depicting colonial courts in Dakar
D.A picaresque diary narrated by a wandering Sahelian griot
Explanation: 'Une si longue lettre' is an epistolary novel framed as an intimate, reflective letter written by the newly widowed Ramatoulaye Fall to her lifelong confidante Aïssatou Ba, chronicling the emotional, social, and patriarchal burdens of polygamy in post-independence Senegal.
6Which 1857 poetry collection by Charles Baudelaire marked the transition from Romanticism to Symbolism and modern poetry with its exploration of spleen and ideal?
A.Les Contemplations
B.Les Fleurs du mal
C.Poèmes saturniens
D.Alcools
Explanation: Charles Baudelaire's 'Les Fleurs du mal' (1857) revolutionized French poetry through its exploration of the tension between 'Spleen' (despair, modern ennui) and 'Idéal' (beauty, transcendent art), introducing Symbolist correspondences.
7In classical French prosody, an alexandrine line is defined by how many metrical syllables, traditionally divided by a medial caesura (césure à l'hémistiche)?
A.8 syllables
B.10 syllables
C.12 syllables
D.14 syllables
Explanation: The classic alexandrin consists of exactly 12 metrical syllables, canonically split into two equal six-syllable hemistichs (hémistiches) separated by a central rhythmic pause (césure).
8Which historical event forms the central narrative backbone of Ousmane Sembène's masterwork 'Les Bouts de bois de Dieu' (1960)?
A.The 1944 Thiaroye massacre near Dakar
B.The 1914 yellow fever epidemic in Saint-Louis
C.The founding of the West African student union FEANF
D.The 1947–1948 Dakar-Niger railway strike
Explanation: 'Les Bouts de bois de Dieu' dramatizes the historic 1947–1948 strike by African railway workers on the Dakar-Niger line, depicting their collective struggle for dignity, equal wages, and family allowances across Senegal and French Sudan (Mali).
9When a speaker or writer uses the figure of 'litote' (litotes), what rhetorical operation is performed?
A.Saying less in words to suggest much more, often through a negated contrary
B.Exaggerating attributes to an extreme degree to evoke awe or mockery
C.Repeating identical vowel sounds across successive stressed syllables
D.Attributing human feelings and voluntary behaviors to inanimate objects
Explanation: Litote is a figure of attenuation where the speaker expresses an idea through the negation of its opposite ('ce n'est pas mauvais' to mean 'c'est excellent'), thereby magnifying the implied meaning.
10Which 1827 dramatic preface by Victor Hugo served as the official manifesto of French Romanticism by rejecting classical unities and championing the grotesque alongside the sublime?
A.Préface de Cinna
B.Préface de Cromwell
C.Défense et illustration de la langue française
D.Manifeste du surréalisme
Explanation: Victor Hugo's 'Préface de Cromwell' (1827) proclaimed the aesthetic doctrine of the Romantic drama, arguing that true modern art must unite the sublime and the grotesque while abolishing the rigid classical unities of time and place.
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