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 361:
This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
Grandma informs Li in the novel that her salt-pot is empty because
Options:
A) she wants to extract money from Li's pocket money
B) she knows Li has had a gift of money recently
C) Li's mother would give her some
D) grandfather will never part with his money for salt
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 362:
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.
The major thematic preoccupation of her play is
Options:
A) the constraintic on parental obligations
B) the problems of class and English mannerisms
C) the presentation of a mannerless society
D) changing the traditional view about English comedy
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 363:
This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears
The novel is largely set in
Options:
A) Futa Toro
B) Sabonville city
C) Alligator city
D) Nuclear city
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 364:
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 365: Caesar's ghost appears to Brutus
Options:
A) just as he is about to surrender to Antony
B) as he is about to leave the forum after the assassination of Caesar
C) just as he is about to address his fellow citizens
D) after Cassius and Brutus have resolved their differences
E) before Brutus receives the news of his wife's death.
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 366:
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation
'Having finished the paper, a second cup of coffee and a roll and butter, he rose; shook a crumb or two from his waist coat, and expanding his broad chest, smiled happily, not because he felt particularly light-hearted his happy smile was simply the result of a good digestion.
The character referred to in this passage
Options:
A) is excited by the news in the paper
B) is lonely and unhappy
C) has spent a long time over his food
D) is pleased with himself after a good meal
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 367: These questions are based on general Literary principlesThe plot of a story generally refers to the
Options:
A) intrigue made by a character against the hero
B) way in which the events of the story are organized
C) way in which the writer begin the story
D) way the writer ends the story
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 368:
This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
'We have come to the crossroads
And I must either leave or come with you
I lingered over the choice
But in the darkness of my doubts
You lifted the lamp of love
And I saw in your face
The road that I should take',
'The Mesh' by Kwesi Brew
The poem ends on a note of
Options:
A) indecision
B) despair
C) hope
D) determination
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 369:
This question is based on S.I. Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.
The plot of the novel is
Options:
A) cyclical
B) achronological
C) convoluted
D) linear
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 370:
"The drum is silenced in mid-throb;
The flute is flung away;
And ears strain to master the malediction
Of the thunder."These lines from "For Christopher Okigbo" shows that the main occurrence in the poem is
Options:
A) incomprehensible
B) wortheless
C) accursed
D) serene
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The correct answer is C .