Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

You would often hear on hen remark to another,<br/>Under the guidance of our leader, Comrade Napoleon, i have laid five eggs in six days'. or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim,<br/>'Thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water taste!'<br/>It is obvious from this passage that the narrator

A Agrees with the animals good opinion of Napoleon
B Thinks the hen are correct while the cows are wrong
C Agrees with the cows and dissagree with the hens
D Feels it is not possible to know the truth
E Its being ironic since neither the cows nor the hens are correct

Question 562:

Which of the following adjectives best describes the character of Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart?

A Gentle
B Quick tempered
C Considerate
D Meek
E Wicked

Question 563:

Artistically, Okonkwo's seven years' exile is a device used by Achebe to

A To introduce comic relief
B Keep Okonkwo at a distance from the movement of the mind of Umuofia
C Serve as a warning to other members of the Umuofia community
D Shows that wilful crime does not pay
E De-emphizes the role of Okonkwo in the novel

Question 564:

'...No, my friend, he is not too young. A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the very day it hatches. i have done my best to make Nwoye grow into a man, but there is too much of his mother in him.'<br/>The truth, which Okonkwo knows but cannot bring himself to state, is that Nwoye is what he is because there is in him too much of

A His father
B His grandfather
C Ikemefuna
D His grandmother
E Ezinma

Question 565:

The title of Achebe Things Fall Apart is taken from poem written by

A T.S Eliot
B William Shakespeare
C William Wordsworth
D Wole Soyinka
E W.B Yeats.