Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God ''' It is not bravery for a man to beat his wife. I know a man and his wife must quarrel; there is no abomination in that... No, you may quarrel; but let it not end in fighting...'' These words concern

A Obika and his mother
B Obika and Okuata
C Akueke and her husband
D All the young men in the village

Question 952:

This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God 'The crisis over the New Yam Feast arose because

A Ezeulu refused to eat the sacred yams at the appropriate time
B The harvest season came too early
C The Christians in Umuaro diverted their own yams to their church
D Ezeulu's absence from Umuaro had prevented him from eating the sacred yams at the right time

Question 953:

This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God ''....that no man however great was greater than his people; that no one ever won judgement against his clan.'' Achebe's conclusion was that

A The individual should submit his will to thatof the clan
B Very few people have the ability to dictate to their clan
C A man should impose his judgement on the clan if he is strong enough to do so
D The clan generally ensures that the individual is reduced to weakness

Question 954:

This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter '....One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs knock one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end.' On what occasion do these lines occur in the novel?

A At the burial ceremony of Ramatoulaye's husband
B After the confession of Ramatoulaye's daughter, that she was pregnant
C When Ramatoulaye was learning to drive the Flat 125
D When Ramatoulaye saw her mother sick in bed

Question 955:

This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter 'You forget that I have a heart, a mind, that I am not an object to be passed from hand to hand. You don't know what marriage means to me....'These words by Ramatoulaye are addressed to

A Mawdo
B Her mother-in-law
C Daouda Dieng
D Tamsir