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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

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Literature In English Questions

Question 1071:
This question is based on Literary Principles.'<br/>Immersed in the great depression, they had kept their families together, kept their feet from touching bottom, and kept their faith in the future-their children's future more than their own<br/>John Updike, Beech: A Book<br/>In the above passage, ''Kept their feet from touching bottom'' suggests staying
  • A Afloat literally
  • B Buoyant economically
  • C Alive
  • D Affluent
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Question 1072:
This question is based on Literary Principles.<br/>'Otto's wife was a potter. Nessa remembered Sandra. Davis telling hr this. Not just a wife, not just a mother- as Nesa's own mother had been, as all the women in her childhood were and were expected to be: cooks and floor scrubbers, fanatical table polishers and chairback starchers nest builders.'<br/>Georgina Hammie, Habits<br/>In the passage above, Otto's wife
  • A Scrubbed floors and polished tyables like the other women
  • B Was a pooter and was therefore spared other domestic jobs
  • C Was a potter like Nessa's mother
  • D Was a potter in addition to being a wife and mother
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Question 1073:
This question is based on Literary Principles.<br/>'In the cold hands of death...<br/>his mouth was cotton filled, his brain on scales-was this a trick to prove fore-knowledge after death ?<br/>Wole Soyinka: Post Mortem'<br/>These two stanzas capture the
  • A Fear of death
  • B Ugliness of death
  • C Mystery of death
  • D Knowledge of death
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Question 1074:
This question is based on Literary Principles.<br/>''Virture in Russia as in his childhood, seemed something that arose from men, like a comforting body odour, rather than something from above that impaled the struggling soul like a moth on a pin.''<br/>John Updike, Beech: A Book<br/>The tone of the passage above is
  • A Authoritative
  • B Mocking
  • C Appreciative
  • D Scathing
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Question 1075:
In his judgement over the elders,Ovonramwen reveals his preference for
  • A Diplomacy
  • B Intimidation
  • C Loyalty
  • D Consensus
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