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 211:
Read the poem and answer the questionMove him into the sun
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unsown
Always it woke him even in France
Until this morning and this snow
If anything might rouse him now
This kind old sun will know
Think how it wakes the seeds
Woke,once, the clays of a cold star
Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides,
Full-nerved still warm too hard to stir?
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break earth's sleep at all?The mood in the last two lines is one of
Options:
A) surprise
B) lament
C) uncertainty
D) indifference
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 212:
This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.
A major irony in the Henchard-Farfrae relationship is that
Options:
A) Farfrae's arrival spells Henchard's doom
B) they employ each other
C) they disagree over Abel Whittle
D) the friendship ends too soon
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 213:
This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
What is the poet-persona's feeling for the reaper in Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper'?
Options:
A) Pity
B) Admiration
C) Hatred
D) Delight
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 214: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.In The Mouse-trap, the murderer is
Options:
A) Claudius
B) Lucianus
C) Gozango
D) Baptista
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 215: This question is based on William Shakespheare's Othello“ ...Fathers, from hence trust not daughters' minds. By what you see them act. Is there not charms. By which the property of youth and maidhood May be abused?. ” In the excerpt it is implied that daughters are
Options:
A) lascivious
B) petty
C) pretentious
D) thieves
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 216: At the end of the poem 'pianos and Drums', the protagonist is best described as
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A) an authentic African
B) a cultural mulatto
C) sophisticated African
D) a cultured youth
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 217:
Use excerpt below to answer questions
"Now, by yond marble
heaven,
In the due reverence of a sacred vow
I here enrage my words." (Shakespeare's Othello)
The prevailing activity in the extract is
Options:
A) the vow of revenge and pledge of loyalty by Iago to Othello
B) evident of the conspiracy between Iago and Othello
C) the vow by Iago to revenge upon Othello
D) reflective of Othello's rage
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 218:
...... is also called a dynamic character
Options:
A) Protagonist
B) Round character
C) Flat character
D) Foil
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 219: This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.GALLWAY (untying a parcel). 'Your Highness, our Queen, Her Royal Majesty Queen Victoria, asks us to extend her very best wishes to you;...... What is contained in the parcel which Gallway unties?
Options:
A) An inner tube of a bicycle
B) A royal message from Queen Victoria
C) A framed portrait of Queen Victoria
D) A bottle of gin
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 220: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet
But, O, what from of prayer can serve my turn? Forgive me my foul murder!
That cannot be; since I am still possess'd of those effects for which I did the murder
Those effects which Claudius is still possessed of from the excerpt above are
Options:
A) Hamlet's orchard and his crown
B) young Hamlet and Gertrude
C) the crown and the queen
D) Norway and young fortinbras
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The correct answer is C .