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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Literature In English Questions

Question 411:
Eliza is Mine Boy is representative of
  • A European female sophistication
  • B The disaster of an African wishing to be European
  • C Moral decadence in South African where women smoke
  • D The hardship of a black female teacher
  • E The loneliness of a female teacher in Malay Camp
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Question 412:
Which of the characters in Abraham's Mine Boy is notorious for playing with a Knife?
  • A Xuma
  • B Leah
  • C Ma plank
  • D Dladia
  • E Joseph.
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Question 413:
The doctors looked at chris johannes.<br/>They were both dead. They kept the place up with their bodies so that we could get out!'a mine boy cried and begin to sob (Mine Boy).<br/>The death of Chris and Johannes is symbolic because
  • A It shows how black and white can and ought to make sacrifies for matual benefit
  • B It lead to the arrest of the miners by the police
  • C It shows the bad conditions of the mines
  • D It ios the result of panic
  • E It keeps xuma out of trouble.
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Question 414:
In Mine Boy Peter Abrahams is of the view that apartheid would cease to exist in South Africa if
  • A The blacks forced out the whites
  • B The whites packed their bags and went away peacefully
  • C The whites became more generous and gentle to the blacks
  • D Black and whites stopped regarding people primarily by the colour of the skin
  • E Unequal treatment of the black and white at the mines was discontinued.
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Question 415:
Kongi wants to eat the New Yam during the harvest Festival because
  • A He was very hungry after his period of fasting
  • B The Yam won the agriculture contest
  • C It belonged to the Royal House
  • D It symbolized the acqusition of Power
  • E He wanted to reconcile with Oba Danlola
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