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 51: ''Troubadour, I Traverse all my land exploring all her wide flung parts with zest probing in motion sweeter far than rest her secret thickets with an amorous hand''.The above lines from Brutus 'poem' A Troubadour l Traverse'indicate that the poet
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A) is a traveller
B) an explorer who collect things
C) enjoys amorous adventures
D) loves a woman
E) has a deep-rooted love for his country
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The correct answer is E .
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Question 52:
This question is based on General Literary Principles
When an object is invested with a meaning beyond its immediate reference, it becauses
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A) an irony
B) a symbol
C) a subject
D) an epigram
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 53: In 'Vanity', Birage Diop portrays the African predicament as arising from
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A) sad complaining voices of beggars
B) pitiful anger bowing like a tumour
C) not listening to the dead
D) clamouring and crying roughly over our torments
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 54:
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.
'There be two gentlemen in a post-chaise at the door. They have lost their way upon the forest....The two gentlemen in the excerpt above are
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A) Diggory and Saunders
B) Marlow and Hastings
C) Marlow and Hardcastle
D) Diggory and Hastings
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 55:
This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.
Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is with him a codling when 't is almost an apple; it is with him in standing water, between boy and man. He is very well-favoured, and he speaks very shrewishly; one would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.
The images in the quotation above express the speaker' s
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A) contempt and admiration
B) hatred and pity
C) contempt and disregard
D) disregard and pity
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 56:
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
'And since we did not understand our dead since we have never listened to their cries
If we weep gently....'
What heart will listen to our clamouring 'Vanity' expresses
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A) regret and disappointment
B) disillusion and despair
C) disdain and disgust
D) satisfaction and pleasure
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 57:
This question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.
In their flight, the women settle at lyara in order to
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A) forestall reconciliation
B) seek peace
C) cure cross-piece
D) hurt their husbands
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 58: Based on the novel "Piggy''s", towards the end of the novel, the boys can best be described as
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A) brave and resourceful
B) frightened and beastly
C) religious and orderly
D) anarchic and savage
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 59: This question is based on Ernest Hemingway''s The Old Man the Sea.The skeleton of the fish is brought by the shore to
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A) draw sympathy for the old man
B) show the old man''s fruitless effort
C) show that thje skeleton itself is useful
D) mock the misadventure of the old man
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 60: 'I breathed a sigh of relief when i was twenty-six, determined that from then on my life will take a turn for the better. To make sure this happened I did two things which made sure it never could: i got a job, and I got married'.The quality which this passage displays is
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A) inaccessibility
B) seriousness
C) humour
D) gloom
E) nervousness.
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The correct answer is B .