This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Claudius, though a murderer, is presented as a character
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2,378 questionsThis question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
Madawaki: The whiteman is an uninvited guest to our land, he must observe, not dictate
The statement above is prompted by the
This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
Caliph Attahiru's dream about heavy smoke on the battlefield and the ancestors passing the flag of Islam from one head to another serves as
This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
Lord Lugard and the British military find it easy to penetrate the Sokoto Caliphate because the
This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
'I wish him luck with his infidel friends But he must remember that there is only one moon at a time, one sun at a time'
The speaker in the passage above is referring to a
This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
To justify the deposition of the Emirs of Bida and Kontagora, the British authorities accuse them of
This question is based on S.I Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily
'What is in the past is gone forever. it is only the present that belongs to us! Grasp what chance of happiness you can find at the moment with both hands!
The past in the extract above refers to
This question is based on S.I Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily
The preoccupation of the novel is
This question is based on S.I Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily
Nkem leaves Odilis house because
This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears
In the novel, Serah dies of
This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears.
In the novel, the foil to Lahab's character is
This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears
'A repulsive game, nonetheless. Majority participation in a voice doesn't turn it into a virtue,no matter the social standing of the participants.
The game referred to in the passage above is
This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm
The ideological leader of the revolution in the novel is
This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm
The last major battle in the novel is the battle
This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm
The events in the novel are set in
This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm
The turn of events in the novel shows that the novelist is
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.
'There be two gentlemen in a post-chaise at the door. They have lost their way upon the forest....
The two gentlemen in the excerpt above are
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.
The epilogue of the play deals with the impermanence of
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.
One of the enriching features of the play is the
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.
Miss Hardcastle is able to 'conquer' at the end of the play because of her