Literature in English is the study of works written in the English language. It includes all forms of writing, such as novels, plays, short stories, and poetry. This subject involves exploring and analyzing these texts to understand their themes and meanings.
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Question 1021:
'' It was dawn, and the windows were dark except for the Workmen cafes. The sky was like a avast flat wall of cobalt, with roofs and spires of black paper pasted upon it. Drowsy men were sweeping the pavements with ten-foot brooms, and ragged families picking over the dustbins. Workmen and girls with piece of chocolate in one hand and bread in the other were pouring into the railway station.'
The picture presented above is one of
Options:
A) poverty in urban areas
B) monotony of the town life
C) landscape at sunrise
D) sordid industrial town.
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1022:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'There was another, Sule. He put himself in uniform, made one for his five-year-old son, and marched with the infant from dawn till noon every market day on the main road singing 'Kayiwawa beturi, ''the theme song of his Burmese days.
Kofi Awoonor, '' This Earth, My Brother'
The character in the poem above is obviously a
Options:
A) veteran
B) prisoner
C) mercenary
D) refugee
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1023: When Mr. Jagger''s told Joe Gargery to ''bear in mind, that Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better'', what he meant was that
Options:
A) Holdfast was a better dog when compared to Brag
B) it was better to hold fast on one''s beliefs than to brag about them
C) a faithful, steadfast dog was better than a dog that gives one cause to bragof its beauty
D) Joe Gargery should keep his mouth shut.
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1024:
This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.
The island in the novel is a
Options:
A) symbol of peace
B) hide out for children during the war
C) symbol of innocence
D) world of abundance
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1025:
This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
'Thereafter, any yam harvest in the fields was harvested in the name of the son'
The 'son' referred to in the above quotation is
Options:
A) Ezeulu's dead son, Obika
B) Ezeulu's Christian son, Oduche
C) Mr. Good Country's son
D) Jesus Christ
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1026:
This question is based on Wole Soyinka's
The Trials of Brother Jero.
JERO: In that case, since, Brother Chume,
your wife seems such a wicked, willful sinner,
I think ....
CHUME: Yes, Holy One...?
JERO: You must take her home tonight...
Jero concedes to Chume taking his wife home and beating her in order to
Options:
A) keep his secret secret
B) get the beating out of the way quickly
C) enable jero get into his house
D) keep Chume's loyalty
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1027:
This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.
The marriage of Adah and Francis collapses because of
Options:
A) Adah's unifaithfulness to Francis
B) the influence of British culture
C) Adah's desire for personal fulfilment
D) external pressures on the couple
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1028: Which of the following is a correct definition of the balled?
Options:
A) A climatic episode
B) An impersonal dramatic piece
C) An allusive dialogue
D) A love story told by balled singer
E) A poem that tells a folk story
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The correct answer is E .
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Question 1029:
Analogy is the arrangement of two ideas that are_________
Options:
A) opposite
B) similar
C) symbolic
D) repetitive
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1030: Any work of literature which sets out to instruct may be called
Options:
A) dialetic
B) decadent
C) definitive
D) didactic.
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The correct answer is D .