Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Peter Abraham's Mine Boy is about one of the following

A Opression through labour
B The dignity of labour
C Happy childhood
D Conflict of the culture
E None of the above

Question 387:

In a 'Portrait', a poet writes: At mankind's feast,i take my place In solemn,sanctimonious state, And have the air of saying grace While i defile the dinner plate. The tone of this passage may be described as

A Solemn
B Self-mocking
C Dead earnest
D Serious
E Angry

Question 388:

Our attitude to the hero of George Elliot's Sill Marner is one of

A Contempt
B Fear
C Sympathy
D Hatred
E None of the above

Question 389:

Kenneth Kaunda's Zambia Shall Be Free is a non-fictional work because

A It is about politics
B It has no characters
C It evokes no feelings
D It is not written by a novelist
E It deals with real life events

Question 390:

The woods decay,the woods decay and fall, The vapors weep their burden to the ground, Man comes and fills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies the swan. The theme of these lines is

A The falling of leaves
B The ground on which the leaves fall
C Man as a farmer
D The power of death over every life
E The flight of birds in certain reasons