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 21:
This question is based on Wole Soyinka's
The Trials of Brother Jero.
JERO: In that case, since, Brother Chume,
your wife seems such a wicked, willful sinner,
I think ....
CHUME: Yes, Holy One...?
JERO: You must take her home tonight...
Jero concedes to Chume taking his wife home and beating her in order to
Options:
A) keep his secret secret
B) get the beating out of the way quickly
C) enable jero get into his house
D) keep Chume's loyalty
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 22:
This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless.'Ordaley ignored the two young women plating their hair because she didn't want to generate another war with a simple greeting'
The image depicted in the lines above is
Options:
A) ironic
B) personification
C) hyperbolic
D) metaphoric
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 23:
This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.
The first character in the play to refers to Othello by name is
Options:
A) Brabantio
B) Desdemona
C) the Duke
D) lago
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 24:
From the novel; Lonely Days
The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS
In the novel, bage cap signifies everlasting ________?
Options:
A) happiness
B) sorrow
C) freedom
D) despair
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 25: This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days.Kufi is a
Options:
A) Christian community
B) pagan society
C) Muslim community
D) traditional society
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 26: This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.):New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds):A selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.); Longman Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles
The first stanza of Eliot's The Journey of the Magi depicts the
Options:
A) increment of fortune for the pilgrims
B) blind acceptance of faith
C) hazards of the journey
D) journey as an influential factor
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 27: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'Detur Son-of-God had only one job hence-forward that evening: to keep an almost over solicitous eye on my glass. Even when I forgot to drink for some time the young man would come over to me and whisper in my ear:'' Come on old fellow, drink up and let me give you another. Do you want to stop me getting into Heaven?''
Mission to Kala by Mongo Beti
The mood of the quotation in this passage is
Options:
A) tragically comic
B) deadly serious
C) playfully serious
D) humorously comic
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 28:
"Thou loosest labour
As easy may'st thou the in trenchant air
With thy keen sword impress,..."Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the confidence above derives from the fact that
Options:
A) the air cannot be cut
B) it is futile to cut the air with a sword
C) no man born of a woman can hurt Macbeth
D) Macduff wastes his efforts fighting Macbeth
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 29:
This question is based on the Literary Appreciation.
'I am jealous and passionate like Jehovah, God of the Jews;
J.P Clark:Olokun
A device used in the second line of the excerpt above is
Options:
A) simile
B) hyperbole
C) metaphor
D) paradox
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 30:
This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives' Revolt
When does the play open and close?
Options:
A) In the afternoon
B) At midnight
C) In the morning
D) In the evening
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The correct answer is D .