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 1031:
Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned. He knew this was, one of the many ways the General meditated, but the ecstasy in which he lay drifting seemed that of a man no longer of this world.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The General in His Labyrinth
The master in the passage above is obviously in a state of
Options:
A) trance
B) drowning
C) forgetfulness
D) labyrinth
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1032:
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
The oilbean in Christopher Okigbo's 'The Passage refers to
Options:
A) one of the totems of Idoto
B) the only totem of Idoto
C) the abundance of oilbean trees by the river
D) the use of the oilbean for magical purposes
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1033:
This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
'The crisis over the New Yam Feast arose because
Options:
A) Ezeulu refused to eat the sacred yams at the appropriate time
B) the harvest season came too early
C) the Christians in Umuaro diverted their own yams to their church
D) Ezeulu's absence from Umuaro had prevented him from eating the sacred yams at the right time
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1034:
An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is
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A) props
B) parody
C) pyrrhic
D) pathos
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1035:
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
Kate, Hardcastle's daughter, agrees to her father's choice of a husband for her but is critical of the
Options:
A) mother's non-participation in the choice
B) long notice given her of the suitor's arrival
C) custom which allows her father to choose for her
D) suitor's reserved and bashful nature
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1036:
From the novel; Nineteen Eighty-Four
The question is based on George Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
The noveldraws a picture of______?
Options:
A) useless past
B) a totalitarian future
C) an unstable moment
D) a peaceful atmosphere
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1037:
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'There where the need for good and ''the doing good'' conflict.'
In these two lines from Lenrie Peters' The Fence', the speaker says that
Options:
A) ''doing good'' is the opposite of the need for good
B) he cannot do good deeds
C) action often conflicts with knowledge
D) he lies on the fence between good and evil
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1038: These question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.The subject matter of the novel is
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A) exploitation and cruelty
B) retributive justice
C) class segregation
D) totalitarian dictatorship
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1039:
Drama is the representation of a complete series of actions by means of _________
Options:
A) movement and gesture for the screen and audience
B) speech, movement and gesture for the stage only
C) speech, movement and gesture for the stage, screen and radio
D) speech, gesture and movement for the screen and radio
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1040: The night is significant in 'Nightfall in Soweto' because
Options:
A) people stay in their houses
B) crimes are committed at night
C) the people can rest their tired bones at night
D) black people are persecuted even in their own homes at night
E) night brings alot of enjoyment
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The correct answer is D .