Which one of the following is true of Lady Macbeth?
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(E)
She is a loving wife to her husband
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One of the themes of macbeth is
Answer
(D)
the defect of evil by good
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One of themes of As You Like It Is
Answer
(D)
the meaning of true love
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One of the differences between tragedy and comedy is
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(D)
there is a happy ending in comedy but not in tragedy
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The main purpose of drama is to
Answer
(E)
both educate and entertain us.
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There is a devil in me that wants things i cannot get' The speaker in the novel Mine boy' is
Answer
(E)
Eliza.
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The difficulties of his early life taught Kaunda the value of
Answer
(D)
self help
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In zambia shall be free Kaunda describes his father as
Answer
(E)
strict.
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The night has been unruly. Where we lay. Our chimneys were blown down; and as they say lamentings heard i'th'air; strange screams of death And prophesying with accents terrible. Of dire combustion and confessed events. New hatch'd to the woeful time. The obscure bird Clamour'd the livelong night: some say the earth was feverous and did shake. This is the night .
Answer
(E)
when duncan was murdered.
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Kofi had to live under a master and go to school in keta because
Answer
(D)
his father's school was a junior school
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In the novel The Narrow Parth because Kofi's father was a headmaster, kofi
Answer
(A)
wore shoe to school
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Ananse knew who loved his daughter most through
Answer
(C)
thier reactions to the news of Anansewa's death
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Orlando addressed the banished duke and his men roughly because
Answer
(D)
he thought they were wild
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In As You Like It Orland's defeat of charles, the Duke's wrestler made his brother Oliver
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(B)
plan to kill him
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The animal which Gerald Durrel found difficult to catch was
Answer
(C)
alacko
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To be thus is nothing but to be safely thus our fear in Banqo stick deep. soon after these words, macbeth is dramatically 'attended'by
Answer
(A)
Banqo and his son
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'Thou losest labour
As easy mayst thou the interenchant air with kneel sword impress as make me bleed'
Macbeth contempt from Macduff's effort in this battle scene arises from
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(D)
the fact that the witches have made him think no mortal can hurt him
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Eliza is Mine Boy is representative of
Answer
(B)
the disaster of an African wishing to be European
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Which of the characters in Abraham's Mine Boy is notorious for playing with a Knife?
Answer
(D)
Dladia
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The doctors looked at chris johannes.
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).
The death of Chris and Johannes is symbolic because
Answer
(A)
it shows how black and white can and ought to make sacrifies for matual benefit
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In Mine Boy Peter Abrahams is of the view that apartheid would cease to exist in South Africa if
Answer
(D)
black and whites stopped regarding people primarily by the colour of the skin
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Kongi wants to eat the New Yam during the harvest Festival because
Answer
(D)
it symbolized the acqusition of Power
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Nani's sternness and frequent use of the cane
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(B)
exacted obedience from his wife
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Kongi's harvest is
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(A)
a political drama
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Stars hide your fires;
let no light see my black and deep desires
They eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eyes fears, when it is done to see'
In these lines Shakespare uses
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(E)
apostophe
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'I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have i seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, council, governments'
These line fairly represent the attitude of Ulysses' life. This attitude may be described as
Answer
(C)
ceaseless labour and search for challenges
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'Fast fading violets covered up in leaves
And mid May's eldest child
The coming must-rose full of dewy wine
The murmurous haunt of files on summer eves'. ('Ode to a nightingale')
The poetic beauty of the last line owes to the use of
Answer
(C)
metaphor
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In 'Ode to a nightingale' Keats celebrates the beauty of
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(A)
a particular immortal Bird
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In Procession I-Hanging Day', Soyinka writes about
Answer
(A)
what he actually witnessed
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When the Franklin declares in the prologue to his tale that he has 'not slept on mount Parnassus' he meant that
Answer
(C)
he has no literary pretensions
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'The Tiger of William Blake is made up of a series of
Answer
(A)
analogies
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'If i could have put u in my heart,
If but i could have wrapped you in myself
How glad i should have been!
And now the chart
Of memory unrolls again to me
The course of our journey here, here where we part....'
An appropriate title for these lines is.....
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(A)
The end
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''When he was turned over, his eyeballs started upward in amazement and horror, his was locked torn wide: his trousers soaked with blood, were torn open, and exposed to the cold, white air of morning the thick hairs of his groin, mattered together, black and rust red, and the wound that seemed to be throbbing still''.
The passage achieve realism through the use of
Answer
(A)
details
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'We are all diseas'd,
And with our surfeiting, and wanton hours,
Have brought ourselves into a burning fever
And we must bleed for it'.
The images in the passage mostly draw attention to
Answer
(C)
carelessness
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'Earth has not anything to show more fair.
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This city now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning'.
It is suggested in this lines that
Answer
(B)
the beauty of the city gains from the beauty of the morning
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'She unpacked the novels she has brought with her, and turned them over. These were the books she had collected over years from the mass that had come her way. She had read each one a dozen times, knowing it by heart, following the familiar tales as a child listens to his mother telling him a well-known fairy tale'.
This character may best be described as a woman
Answer
(C)
of wide literary interest
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'And 'mid these dancing looks at once and ever it flung up momentarily the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran'.
Line 3 is made memorable by the use of
Answer
(E)
alliteration
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The feeling in the poem 'Nightfall in Soweto' is one of
Answer
(C)
hate
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'She came in silken Drapes' is about the
Answer
(A)
virtures of love
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In 'The Sea Eats Our Land' the word 'sea' symbolizes
Answer
(C)
modernity
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The subject matter of 'A Troubadour I Traverse' is
Answer
(A)
suffering and oppression
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Poetry deals with one of the following
Answer
(D)
emotion and ideas
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'Comes this season of the cassia flower,
And pent passion peers through the bower,
Comes the season, and all labour is fallen
All earthen pitches as china broken'
The rhyme scheme in this passageb from kalu Uka's 'Earth to Earth' is
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(C)
couplets
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All the images used to describe where the poet always stop in Lenrie Peter's ; The Fence 'are suggestive of the character's
