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 1611: 'But such a tide as moving seems asleep. Too full for sound and foam.When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home.'One of the themes of Awoonor's The Anvil and the Hammer is
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A) education
B) slavery
C) colonisation
D) corruption
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1612:
This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.;....I am in blood
Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er'.
Who spoke these words?
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A) Lady Macbeth
B) The fiest murderer
C) Macbeth
D) THE SECOND NURDERER
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1613:
This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
'...But there have been
No new reads cut by his servants
No new cots woven..'
It can be inferred from the above lines that
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A) there has been no harvest in the village
B) the Bale's sevants are lazy
C) no children have been born recently
D) the Bale's servants are revolting
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1614:
This Question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.
OKORO: I'll kill her today.
IDAMA: No, you won't. There, run, Koko, oh,
I say run![He pushes her gently but
firmly towards her room]
The event above happens in
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A) lyara when Okoro discovrs Koko's infidelity
B) Erhuwaren whn Koko suspects and accuses her husband
C) Erhuwaren when Okoro suspects Koko of infidelity
D) Erhuwaren before Koko's return from lyara
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1615: A close reading of The Victims reveals that Ogugua's pr-marital and extra-marital affairs are a reflection of her
Options:
A) innate promiscuity
B) love of public scandals
C) defiance of social norms
D) self-hate.
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1616: "If you touch me,I shall smash your face with this bottle"Based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters,The statement above is made by
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A) Manaan to lawyer B
B) Manaan to Mrs Bonu
C) James to Awere
D) Awere to Aaron
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1617:
This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born'.
The use of the word 'salt' in the novel is suggestive of
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A) the corruption in political life
B) an indispensable commodity
C) the destruction of social values
D) an instrument of decay and of cleansing
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1618: This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption (ACP Yakubu in his office)... How can that old crook of a Judge acquit and discharge a very clear case of cocaine pushing. What evidence is he looking for?...' The technique used in the excerpt above is called
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A) interior monologue
B) apostrophe
C) dramatic monologue
D) soliloquoy
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1619:
Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned. He knew this was, one of the many ways the General meditated, but the ecstasy in which he lay drifting seemed that of a man no longer of this world.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The General in His Labyrinth
The master in the passage above is obviously in a state of
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A) trance
B) drowning
C) forgetfulness
D) labyrinth
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1620:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'Thus; quixoting till a cast-off of my land I sing and fare, person to loved-one pressed braced for this pressure and the captor's hand that snaps off service like a weathered strand...
Dennis Brutus 'A Troubadour I Traverse'
In the lines above, the poet-persona expresses
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A) defiance
B) resignation
C) fear
D) sorrow
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The correct answer is B .