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Bas he is about to leave the forum after the assassination of Caesar
Cjust as he is about to address his fellow citizens
Dafter Cassius and Brutus have resolved their differences
Ebefore Brutus receives the news of his wife's death.
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Question 2
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Animal Farm is a fable illustrating the inevitable degeneration of revolutionary ideals. According to the novel, this degeneration occurs because
Asocial equality, the goal of such idealism, is actually undersirable
Brevolutionary ideals are dreamed by blood-thirsty individuals
Cman's greedy individualistic nature always subverts the realization of ideals
Drevolutionary ideals are inimical to progress
Eanimals are the wrong characters to illustrate man's weaknesses.
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Question 3
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'O murderous slumber! Layest thou thy laden mace upon my boy, that plays thee must. The quoted passage is an example of
Amemorization
Bpersonification
Csimile
Dapostrophe
Eallusion
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Question 4
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'He was tall and huge, and his bushy eyebrows and wide nose gave him a very severe look. He breathed heavily, and it was said that, when he slept, his wives and children in their houses could hear him breath'. This passage achieves vividness through the use of
Adetails
Bsimple words
Cshort sentences
Dthe past tense
Epuntuation.
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Question 5
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'A clear, frosty night. Unusual brilliance and perfection of everything visible. Earth, sky, moon, and stars, all seem cemented, riveted together by the first. Shadows of trees be across the paths, so sharp that they seemed carved in relief. You keep thinking you see dark figures endlessly cross the road at various places'.
This passage achieves its beautiful effect partly because of its repeated appeal to the sense of
Ataste
Btouch
Csight
Dsmell
Ehearing
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Question 6
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'I have wandered on the wilderness
The great wilderness men call life
The rain has beaten me,
And the sharp stumps cut as keen as knives'
For the writer of these lines, living in an experience to be described as
Apleasant
Bdifficult
Crewarding
Dexicting
Ebracing.
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Question 7
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'All was quiet in this park
Until the wind, like a gasping messenger, announced
The tyrant's coming
Then did the branches talk in agony'.
There is in line 2 ('like a gasping messenger...') an example of
Aoxymoron
Bmetonymy
Calliteration
Dsimile
Epersonification.
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Question 8
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'I breathed a sigh of relief when i was twenty-six, determined that from then on my life will take a turn for the better. To make sure this happened I did two things which made sure it never could: i got a job, and I got married'.
The quality which this passage displays is
Ainaccessibility
Bseriousness
Chumour
Dgloom
Enervousness.
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Question 9
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'Then suddenly her heart was whipped up, she now rode on strange waves: alone defying the wind and the rain; alone, fighting hunger and thirst in the desert; alone, struggling with strange demons in the forest, bringing glad tidings to her people'.
The mood of the lady in this passage is one of
Adefeat
Bdepression
Ctriumphant defiance
Dsimple elation
Esorrow.
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Question 10
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The 'Settings' in a novel refers to
Athe point in the story where we first encounter the main character
Bthe overall social and physical background of the main events in the novel
Cthe home country of the hero or heroine
Dthe location where the main event in the novel takes place
Eall the various places mentioned in the novel.
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Question 11
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The expression 'All the world is a stage' is a good example of the figure of speech known as
Apersonification
Bparadox
Conomatopoeia
Dsimile
Emetaphor.
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Question 12
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The tendency in words to echo the meaning by the actual sound is called
Aonomatopoeia
Bassonance
Calliteration
Drhyme
Ephonetics.
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Question 13
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'Even children knew of Simi! Wives knelt and prayed that their men might sin a hundred times with a hundred women, but may their erring feet never lead them to Simi of the slow eyelids. For then men lost hope of salvation, their homes and children became ghost of a past illusion, learning from Simi to a new view of life, and love immersed in a cannibal's reality. Simi broke men, and friendship'.
It is obvious from this passage that Simi is
Afamous for her love of children
Ba goddess worshipped by children, women and men
Ca woman other women like to befriend
Dan alluring, irresistible man-snatcher
Edisliked for teaching sex-education.
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Question 14
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'We return to our places, these kingdoms. But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad to another death'.
Which of the following authors chose the title of one of his novels from the above lines?
AEddie Iroh
BOnuora Nzukwu
CCyprian Ekwensi
DElechi Amadi
EChinua Achebe
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Question 15
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Identify the odd item in the following list
AProse
BPoetry
CMelodrama
DCatastrophe
EDrama.
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Question 16
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A novel is
Aa long prose narrative fiction
Ban interesting story about a hero
Ca prose writings that deals with various people
Da long story in which homan characters represents abstract qualities
Ea prose writing about the lives of great and interesting people.
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Question 17
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Dialogue is important in drama because it
Ahelps the audience to improve their English
Bis usually funny and lively
Chelps the audience to relax
Dprolongs the action of the play
Ereveals the minds of the characters.
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Question 18
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A statement that appears to say something opposite to common sense or the truth, but which may contain a truth is
Aan oxymoron
Ba parable
Can irony
Dan inversion
Ea paradox.
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Question 19
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In 'In Memoriam' Senghor writes 'That from the dangerous safety of the tower, i may go down into the street...'
'Dangerous safety' used in this poem is an example of
Aoxymoron
Bmetaphor
Csimile
Dpersonification
Eapostophe.
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Question 20
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The antagonist in a tragedy is
Aany character in the tragedy
Bthe wife of the protagonist
Cthe character who provides comic relief
Dthe character set in opposition to the main character
