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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

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Literature In English Questions

Question 981:
This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born'. <br/>'Ah, you know, the chichidodo is a bird<br/>The chichidodo hates excrement with all its soul.<br/>But the chichidodo only feeds on maggots, and you know the maggots grow best inside the lavatory. This is the chichidodo'. <br/>Which character in the novel is likened to his bird?
  • A Koomson
  • B Oyo
  • C The man
  • D Teacher
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Question 982:
This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born'.<br/>The use of the word 'salt' in the novel is suggestive of
  • A The corruption in political life
  • B An indispensable commodity
  • C The destruction of social values
  • D An instrument of decay and of cleansing
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Question 983:
This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems. <br/>In his reaction to his friend's death, the mood of the poet, in 'For CHristopher Okigbo' is that of
  • A Shock
  • B Disbelief
  • C Acceptance
  • D Grief
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Question 984:
This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems. <br/>The persona in the poem 'To the Soldier Hero' by Mazisi Kunene is portrayed as being
  • A Blood thirsty
  • B Brave
  • C Humane
  • D Fearful, yet patriotic
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Question 985:
This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems. <br/>'And when He looks at the grimy coating, <br/>Caking off your emaciated skin,...'<br/>These lines from Richard Ntiru's 'The Pauper' describe
  • A The texture of the pauper's skin
  • B The coat the pauper was wearing
  • C The effect of the surroundings
  • D Poverty and dirt
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