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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

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Literature In English Questions

Question 1171:
This question is based on Literary Principles.<br/>The madman has entered our house with violence<br/>Defiling our sacred grounds<br/>Claiming the single truth of the universe <br/>Bending down our high priests with iron,'<br/>Mazizi Kunene, 'Progress'<br/>The imagery of the lines above captures the idea of
  • A Coercion
  • B Religiousity
  • C Truth
  • D Persuasion
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Question 1172:
This question is based on Literary Principles.<br/>'BEHOLD her, single in the field,<br/>Yon solitary Highland Lass!<br/>Reaping and singing by herself;<br/>Stop here, or gently pass!<br/>Alone she cuts and blinds the grain,<br/>And sings a melancholy strain;<br/>O listen! for the Vale profound<br/>Is overflowing with the sound.'<br/>The rhyming scheme in the first stanza of 'The Solitary Reaper' above is
  • A Abcbddee
  • B Ababccdd
  • C Abcabcdd
  • D Abcbddef
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Question 1173:
This question is based on Wole Soyinka's <br/>The Trials of Brother Jero.<br/>Which of the following qualities best describes Jero's ability to keep his followers?
  • A He is a man of God
  • B He distributes gifts to his followers
  • C He foretells their future
  • D He manipulates them
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Question 1174:
This question is based on Wole Soyinka's <br/>The Trials of Brother Jero.<br/>JERO: In that case, since, Brother Chume,<br/>your wife seems such a wicked, willful sinner,<br/>I think ....<br/>CHUME: Yes, Holy One...?<br/>JERO: You must take her home tonight...<br/>Jero concedes to Chume taking his wife home and beating her in order to
  • A Keep his secret secret
  • B Get the beating out of the way quickly
  • C Enable jero get into his house
  • D Keep Chume's loyalty
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Question 1175:
This question is based on Wole Soyinka's <br/>The Trials of Brother Jero.<br/>CHUME: Who said you were? Does the prophet live here?<br/>SAME MAN: Yes. Over there. That house<br/>CHUME: So...so..so...s...<br/>Chume's reaction in the exchange above reflects
  • A Disappointment
  • B Rumination
  • C Contemplation
  • D Awareness
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