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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

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Literature In English Questions

Question 936:
This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.<br/>What basic character traits are revealed by Bluntschli's description of himself as 'a free citizen' and Raina's reference to him as 'my chocolate cream soldier?
  • A Affection and tale-bearing
  • B Facetiousness
  • C Simplicity and naturalness
  • D Obduracy
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Question 937:
This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.<br/>'You know how to hurt with your tongue with your hands. But I don't care, now I've found out that whatever clay I'm made of you're made of the same...'<br/>What action of the speaker led to the reaction upon which she comments?
  • A Eavesdropping
  • B Tale-telling
  • C Errand-running
  • D Gossiping
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Question 938:
This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.<br/>Catherine's natural looks portray her as a
  • A Sophisticated lady
  • B Soldier's wife
  • C Mountain farmer's wife
  • D Business woman
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Question 939:
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.<br/>In J.P. Clark's 'Streamside Exchange', the bird's reply concerns
  • A The coming of the tide
  • B The uncertainty of the future
  • C Market days
  • D Mother's visit to the market
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Question 940:
This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.<br/>In Raina's view, if one is incapable of gratitude, he is incapable of any noble
  • A Attitude
  • B Ideas
  • C Sentiment
  • D Prowess
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