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
View Answer & ExplanationQuestion 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.
View Answer & ExplanationQuestion 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.
View Answer & ExplanationQuestion 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.
View Answer & ExplanationQuestion 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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