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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

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Literature In English Questions

Question 946:
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.<br/>'Withering, burn, ghost, a scatter, dusty, half-bare <br/>The above combination of words from Kwesi Brew's <br/>'The Dry Season' thematically suggests
  • A Destruction
  • B Confusion
  • C Desolation
  • D Death
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Question 947:
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.<br/>The technique Kwesi Brew employs to portray the nightmarish image in his poem 'The Executioner's Dream' is the description of the
  • A Childhood fun
  • B Only set in a crown of thorns
  • C Gory details
  • D Wicked sappor
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Question 948:
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 the poem 'The Prodigals' the line 'their heads are claimed by clouds' means that the military leaders
  • A Travel a lot by air
  • B Are haughty
  • C Love sunny weather
  • D Dislike clouds
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Question 949:
This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God<br/>'Thereafter, any yam harvest in the fields was harvested in the name of the son'<br/>The 'son' referred to in the above quotation is
  • A Ezeulu's dead son, Obika
  • B Ezeulu's Christian son, Oduche
  • C Mr. Good Country's son
  • D Jesus Christ
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Question 950:
This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God<br/>The statement 'the new religion was like a leper' means that
  • A The new religion, if welcomed, will overshadow the traditional religions
  • B The Europeans who brought the new religion were lepers
  • C All those who join the new religion would become lepers
  • D Religion invites diseases
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