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 11:
A sub-chapter in a piece of drama is a______________
Options:
A) Act
B) Setting
C) Verse
D) Scene
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 12:
This question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.
'....Those with breasts have walked out, and that leaves you, me and the old girls returned home on retirement. It's the dry season, child.'The character to whom the words are spoken in the play is in
Options:
A) front of the verandah of Okoro's house
B) Okoro's front yard, downstage
C) the direction of the kitchen, offstage
D) the kitchen, upstage
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 13:
This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter .
Ramatoulaye's attitude to her co-wife is that of
Options:
A) jealousy
B) anger
C) contempt
D) pity
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 14: This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.'That is a photograph of the gentleman - the patriot and hero - to whom I am betrothed',. The gentleman referred to in this passage is
Options:
A) Bluntschli
B) Sergius
C) Petkoff
D) Don Quixote
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 15:
''When the frog in front falls in a pit, others behind takes caution... When crocodiles eat their own eggs, what will they will they not do to the flesh of a frog?''
In the context of The Gods Are Not To Blame, the person who made this statement is alleging that king Adetusa
Options:
A) died falling in to a pit
B) fell victim to man eating crocodiles
C) was killed by the people of Kutuje
D) was killed by the Ijekun people.
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 16: This question is based on J.C.De Graft's Sons and Daughters.
The play opens with a conversation between Aaron and Awere about
Options:
A) Aaron's choice of course
B) Maanan's encounter with the lawyer
C) George qnd Kofi
D) Hannah and George
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 17:
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
'His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink,'
Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
The dominant device in this extract is
Options:
A) progressive repetition
B) progressive amplification
C) bold contrast
D) rhyetorical emphasis
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 18: This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et all (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E et al (eds)_: Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G.: Neked Soles.The subject matter of Adeoti's Naked Soles is
Options:
A) soul and mind
B) hunger and strife
C) suffering and despair
D) hatred and bitterness
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 19:
"The poet needs to be up at night,when the world
Sleeps...needs to exist in places where spiders
Forge their webs in silence;near the gutters where
The underside of our dreams fester."Based on Ben Okri's 'Of Poets and their Antagonists', the poet in the passage above is
Options:
A) suffering from insomnia
B) one of the numerous living in poverty
C) not an ordinary individual
D) a difficult individual
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 20:
This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
Which character may be an allegory of Nigeria itself?
Options:
A) Baroka
B) Sadiku
C) lakunle
D) Sidi
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The correct answer is A .