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 61: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'But he had to go out, he had to go and borrow some money, If only one naira so that he and his wife could eat if only one naira ! But who would lend him the money? He didn't know. Friends were few indeed. Nobody would lend him money knowing fully well that he hadn't the means to pay back'
Violence by Festus Lyayi
The greater emphasis in this passage is on the
Options:
A) feling of doubt
B) feeling of despair
C) feeling of desperation
D) sence of failure
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 62:
This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.
Laye's first-person narrative techinique
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A) makes the work very humorous
B) makes his work less realistic
C) quickens the tempo of his narrative
D) makes his story more believable
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 63:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
''Virture in Russia as in his childhood, seemed something that arose from men, like a comforting body odour, rather than something from above that impaled the struggling soul like a moth on a pin.''
John Updike, Beech: A Book
The tone of the passage above is
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A) authoritative
B) mocking
C) appreciative
D) scathing
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 64: When Di says of Eliza, 'That girl is tragedy already' she means
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A) Eliza faces the threat of premature death
B) Eliza is a pathetic victim of culture conflict
C) Eliza is the tragic heroine of the novel
D) Eliza will not survive her illness
E) Eliza is suffering fron an undiagnosed diseases.
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 65: Pip's Flippant remarks concerning the tombstones in the opening chapter of Great Expectations indicate
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A) his longing for death
B) the child's inability to understand
C) his yearning for his parents
D) his fascination for inscriptions on stonework.
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 66: Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Romeo's mood at the beginning of the play can be described as
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A) frustrated and pensive
B) gay and elated
C) melancholic and sentimental
D) dreamy and hopeful
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 67:
This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
''....that no man however great was greater than his people; that no one ever won judgement against his clan.''
Achebe's conclusion was that
Options:
A) the individual should submit his will to thatof the clan
B) very few people have the ability to dictate to their clan
C) a man should impose his judgement on the clan if he is strong enough to do so
D) the clan generally ensures that the individual is reduced to weakness
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 68:
This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
Which of the following character traits will apply to Lakunle?
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A) Comic and absurd
B) Stupid and simplistic
C) Pompous and spontaneous
D) Decisive and bold
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 69:
From Madza's behavior after his return to Kala
It can be deduced that the most important lesson he learned from his sojourn in Kala is that
Options:
A) the secret of happiness is to be found among unsophisticated Africans
B) every man is free to set his own goals and chart his own course in life
C) formal education is the ideal way to true wisdom
D) it is highly rewarding to abide scrupulously by the mores of one's own community.
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 70: When Xuma talked to Di about Eliza, she
Options:
A) she thought Eliza was like her inside
B) agreed that Eliza was unreasonable
C) was amused
D) was offended
E) believed Xuma was very knowledgeable
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The correct answer is B .