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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

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Literature In English Questions

Question 1226:
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.<br/>Mrs. Hardcastle's complaint in the play that she misses 'a month's polishing' refers to her
  • A Rusting away in the countryside
  • B Need to get the latest fashions in London
  • C Need to buy the best polish in London
  • D Boring life in the countryside
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Question 1227:
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.<br/>The play is built on
  • A Mistaken identities
  • B Sentiments and realities
  • C Comedy of errors
  • D Conttrasts of characters and ideas
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Question 1228:
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.<br/>The epilogue of the play deals with the
  • A Impermanence of nature
  • B Impermanence of love
  • C Impermanence of nature and womanhood
  • D Shortness of love and life
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Question 1229:
This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.<br/>In ''Hurrah For Thunder'', the poet uses the image of the jungle to comment on his country''s lack of
  • A Civilization
  • B Cleanliness
  • C Order
  • D Leadership
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Question 1230:
This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.<br/>Who are they that 'live that the earth may die'in Nyi Osundare's ''They Too Are The Earth''?
  • A The beggars sprawled in gutters
  • B The millions who hew wood
  • C People who fritter the forest and harry the hills
  • D Those who hurl water
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