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 11:
"Why should I play the Roman fool, and die
On mine own sword?"Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth,playing the Roman fool from the above statement implies
Options:
A) acting the part of a foolish Roman
B) behaving like Brutus and Mark Anthony
C) acting like foolish Romans who killed themselves with their own hands
D) acting the Part of a Roman fool in a play
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 12: Which group of characters appears in Macbeth?
Options:
A) Audrey, Phebe, Silvius
B) Charles, Malcolm, Banquo
C) Lennox, Donalbain, Seyton
D) Duncan, frederick, Banquo
E) Oliver, Ross, Banquo
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 13:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs
Making their mock at our accursed lot.'
Claude Mickay, 'If We Must Die'
The mood in the lines above is one of
Options:
A) disgust
B) indignation
C) fear
D) sorrow
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 14: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.In the novel, it is necessary that Ona has to leave her father's house because
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A) of the safety of her child
B) of her love for Agbadi
C) her father is dead
D) that is the tradition
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 15:
This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.
By allowing Henchard to get drunk and sell off his wife, Hardy makes the point that
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A) life is valueless
B) drinking is disastrous
C) Henchard is unpredictable
D) cruelty is part of life
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 16:
This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter .
Ramatoulaye's attitude to her co-wife is that of
Options:
A) jealousy
B) anger
C) contempt
D) pity
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 17:
This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
'The story of my life, which I am about to record Is one full of striking incident Keener pange, deeper joys more singular vicissitudes, few have been led in God's providence to experience. As I look back on it through the vista of more than sixty years and scene on scene it rise before me an ever fresh wonder fils my mind. I delight to recall it, I dwell on it as did the Jews on the marvellous history of thir rescue from the bondage of Egypt'
Black Slave Narratives J.F. Bayliss (ed)
The literary term used for this kind of writing is
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A) biography
B) autograph
C) orthography
D) autobiography
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 18: Animal Farm is a fable illustrating the inevitable degeneration of revolutionary ideals. According to the novel, this degeneration occurs because
Options:
A) social equality, the goal of such idealism, is actually undersirable
B) revolutionary ideals are dreamed by blood-thirsty individuals
C) man's greedy individualistic nature always subverts the realization of ideals
D) revolutionary ideals are inimical to progress
E) animals are the wrong characters to illustrate man's weaknesses.
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 19: This question is based on Thomas Hardy''s The Mayor of Casterbridge. Hardy makes the novel realistic by
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A) interspersing humour with seious narration
B) denying the characters any from of transformation
C) adhering strictly to autolographical facts
D) narrating the story in the first person
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 20:
A novel written in form of a letter is said to be_______
Options:
A) gothic
B) biographical
C) epistolary
D) autobiographical
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The correct answer is C .