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 181: These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.in Kunene's A Heritage of Liberation,the persona is concerned with the
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A) people's struggle for survival
B) intolerance of the new generation
C) celebration of African tradition
D) criticism of modern tradition
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 182:
From the novel; Witnesses to Tears
This question isbased on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears.
In the novel, Al-Amin's initial reservations about his daughter's engagement to Lahab are dormed by
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A) a premonition of his death
B) Lahab's doubtful morality
C) Hussaina's immaturity
D) his fear of loneliness
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 183: The protagonist of Charles Dicken's Great Expectations is
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A) Drummle
B) Magwitch
C) Miss Havishman
D) Pip.
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 184:
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.
...'the hawk will flutter and turn
On its wings and swoop for the mouse,
The dogs will run for the hare,
The hare for its little life.'
These lines from Kwesi Brew's 'The Dry Season' mean that
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A) this is a hunting season
B) there is chaos
C) the hare will be killed
D) the hawk and the dogs are strong
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 185:
This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.
....We have no electric, and we still drink tanwiji from the stream. Many of our children are in jail... We protested and your police mounted expeditions to maim us and reduce our houses to ashes...'
The speech is made by
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A) Titubi role-playing Moremi
B) Niniola role-playing Titubi
C) Mama Kayode role-playing Baba
D) Molade role-playing Marshal
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 186: Based on Asare Konadu's A Woman in Her Prime, the worst calamity that can befall a woman is
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A) barreness
B) inability to bear male children
C) inability to marry
D) divorce
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 187:
This question is based on �Literary Appreciation
And the fountain of Tololo is an Oasis it quenches the thirst of travellers The myriad paces of the mind fold their wings, For here too, growth emerges from sleep; from a beginning that was the end of an era.'
Mazisi Kunene: The Ancestors and the Sacred Mountain From the excerpt above, it can be said that the poet is being
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A) paradoxical
B) anttithetical
C) illogical
D) tautological
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 188: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.The spatial setting of the play is
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A) verona
B) padua
C) venice
D) athens
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 189:
"Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth"Wole Soyinka: "Night".
Night children in the stanza above reflectsthe consciousness of__________
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A) birds
B) armed robbers
C) animals
D) spirit beings
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 190:
This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.Valentine:
....But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk,
And water once a day her chamber round
With eve-offending brine; all this to season...
The imagery above describes
Options:
A) Viola's deep sorrow for her drowned brother
B) Olivia's deep sorrow over the loss of her brother's love
C) Viola's grief over a love she cannot show
D) Olivia's intense grief over the death of her brother
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The correct answer is D .