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 1631:
This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
The play reaches a turning point when
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A) Macduff's wife and children are murdered
B) Banquo is murdered and Fleance escapes
C) Duncan is murdered in Macbeth's castle
D) Macbeth sees the witches a scond time
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1632: The hero of The Trials of Brother Jero is
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A) Amope
B) the Old Prophet
C) the politician
D) Brother Chume
E) Brother Jero
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The correct answer is E .
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Question 1633:
This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter
'Friendship has splendours that love knows not.
It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love'.
The friendship referred to in these lines is that between
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A) Binetou and Modou Fall
B) Ramatoulaye and Daouda Dieng
C) Modou Faill and Mawdo Ba
D) Aissatou and Ramatoulaye
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1634:
This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
Which of the following BEST describes Ezeulu's mood when he was locked up in Okperi by the white administrator?
Options:
A) Indifference
B) Despair
C) Apathy
D) Nobility of mind
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1635: In As You Like It Orland's defeat of charles, the Duke's wrestler made his brother Oliver
Options:
A) decide to reconcile with him
B) plan to kill him
C) hate him more
D) ask the servant, Adam to drive him away
E) give him his deserved inheritance.
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1636:
This question is based on Literary Appreciation. '' 'The white man of God is coming here for Easter! The white man of God is coming to spend Easter with us!' This was the talk everywhere in Nkar among the old and young, even among the pagans. We had been taught everything about him in advance, When he comes we should observe his beard and see if it was not forked like that of .Christ.''
Kenjo Jumban:The white man of God From the passage, the white man of God is treated with
Options:
A) awe
B) derision
C) suspicion
D) indifference
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1637: In Oswald Mtshali's 'nightfall in Soweto', Night represents
Options:
A) the oppression of whites by the Africans
B) white people's fear by the Africans
C) the black victimization of white people
D) the oppression of the Africans by the white people
E) the rebelion of the white people
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1638:
This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless.'Ordaley ignored the two young women plating their hair because she didn't want to generate another war with a simple greeting'
The image depicted in the lines above is
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A) ironic
B) personification
C) hyperbolic
D) metaphoric
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1639:
This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'Returning is not possible
And going forward is a great difficulty'
Sorrow' depict
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A) inevitablilty of fate
B) coollctive failure
C) progress with stubbornness
D) individual tragedy
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1640: This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles.
One thing that Angel Clare hates most is
Options:
A) the nation of old family
B) marrying a girl of her parents'choice
C) Cambridge education
D) becoming a minister
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The correct answer is C .