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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
In J.P. Clark's 'Streamside Exchange', the bird's reply concerns
Athe coming of the tide
Bthe uncertainty of the future
Cmarket days
Dmother's visit to the market
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Question 862
jamb1991
This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.
Catherine's natural looks portray her as a
Asophisticated lady
Bsoldier's wife
Cmountain farmer's wife
Dbusiness woman
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Question 863
jamb1991
This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.
'You know how to hurt with your tongue with your hands. But I don't care, now I've found out that whatever clay I'm made of you're made of the same...'
What action of the speaker led to the reaction upon which she comments?
AEavesdropping
BTale-telling
CErrand-running
DGossiping
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Question 864
jamb1991
This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.
What basic character traits are revealed by Bluntschli's description of himself as 'a free citizen' and Raina's reference to him as 'my chocolate cream soldier?
AAffection and tale-bearing
BFacetiousness
CSimplicity and naturalness
DObduracy
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Question 865
jamb1991
This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.
The main themes in the play are best summed up by the phrase
Amilitary glory and romantic love
Bheroism and marriage
Cinnocent women and brave men
Drealism and romance
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Question 866
jamb1991
This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
Which of the following divisions is used as`a technical device to denote the symbolic significance of certain events?
ADay, morning and afternoon
BMorning, noon and night
CMorning, evening and midnight
DMid-day, midnight and morning
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Question 867
jamb1991
This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
Which of the following character traits will apply to Lakunle?
AComic and absurd
BStupid and simplistic
CPompous and spontaneous
DDecisive and bold
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Question 868
jamb1991
This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
The Bale is symbolically referred to as a fox because of his
Amental powess
Bsexual powess
Cphysical powess
Droyalty
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Question 869
jamb1991
This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
'This is the words of women. At this moment our star sits in the center of the sky
We are supreme.'
These words were spoken by
AThe favourite
BSadiku
CSidi
Dthe third girl
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Question 870
jamb1991
This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
The two characters that symbolize the lion and the jewel respectively are
ALakunle and Sidi
BBaroka and Sadiku
CSadiku and Sidi
DBaroka and Sidi
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Question 871
jamb1990
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
A picaresque novel is a
Awork of fiction set in a utopian past recalling the splendour of rural life
Bpsychological novel with penetrating analyses of human emotions
Cfuturistic novel set in outer space
Dwork of fiction tracing the adventures of a scoundrel of low birth
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Question 872
jamb1990
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.
.......Their eyes recede from tomorrow.
No sense of mission sustains them.'
These lines from Odia Of Ofeimun's 'The Prodigals express
Aa longing for the past
Ba lack of grogress
Cthe weight of tradition
Dan impatient attitude
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Question 873
jamb1990
This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.
'That is a photograph of the gentleman - the patriot and hero - to whom I am betrothed',. The gentleman referred to in this passage is
ABluntschli
BSergius
CPetkoff
DDon Quixote
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Question 874
jamb1990
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation
'Having finished the paper, a second cup of coffee and a roll and butter, he rose; shook a crumb or two from his waist coat, and expanding his broad chest, smiled happily, not because he felt particularly light-hearted his happy smile was simply the result of a good digestion.
The character referred to in this passage
Ais excited by the news in the paper
Bis lonely and unhappy
Chas spent a long time over his food
Dis pleased with himself after a good meal
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Question 875
jamb1990
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation
'America! there it lay, handy and tantalizing, allheat and scurry. All morning they had kept catching glimpses of it beyond the potholes as they stood in long lines, waiting to reach the tables where the immigration men in dacrion shirts checked their visas, inspected the X-ray pictures of their lungs that they held in their hands, decided whether to admit them or not. Getting into America was, it seemed, quite as hard as getting into heaven; and the trouble was... that as with heaven one couldn't know whether one would like it when one got there'.
The picture of America presented in this passage is that of a place
Aof unknown and uncertain qualities
Bchoked with red tape
Cas inviting as heaven itself
Doff-putting on account of the heat
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Question 876
jamb1990
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation
'A slight breeze murmured in the air. Grasses swayed as if in resentment. Over in the horizon, just beneath the spectrum of the ascending sun, horizontal brands of red cloud hung menacingly above the tips of the trees and morning air smelled of burnt clay. The Victims by Isidore Okpewho
Effect in the above passage is achieved through the use of
Asubdued tone
Bvisual images
Cdetailed description
Dadequate punctuation
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Question 877
jamb1990
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation
'I have a sin of fear, that when I have spun
My last thread, I shall perish on the shore;
But swear by thyself, that at my death thy sun
Shall shine as he shines now, and heretofore;
And, having done that, thou hast done,
I fear no more.'
These lines from John Donne's 'Hymn to God the Father' contain examples of
Apun
Bpersonification
Chyperbole
Dquibble
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Question 878
jamb1990
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation
'As soon as the fellows were departed, the lawyer,
Who had, it seems, a case of pistols in the seat of the coach, informed the company, that if it had been daylight, and he could have submitted to the robbery; he likewise set forth that he had often met highwaymen when he travelled on horseback, but none ever durst attack him; concluding, that if he had not been more afraid for the lady than for himself, he should not have now parted with his money so easily.' Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
It can be inferred that the lawyer mentioned above is a
Abrave man
Blaw-enforcement agent allowed to carry pistols
Ccoward
Dgallant man who always protects ladies
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Question 879
jamb1990
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation
'I had a tent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution-not for old association's sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything'. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
The uniqueness of Mr. Wopsle's speech is expressed in this passage through
Aa metaphor
Ban irony
Ca hyperbole
Da flashback
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Question 880
jamb1990
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation
'She certainly doesn't want to play
Other Woman in some conventional, boring triangle. She doesn't feel like an other Woman; she isn't weedling or devious, she doesn't wear negligees or paint her toe nails. William may think she's exotic but she isn't really; she's straightforward, narrow and unadomed, a scientist; not of web-spinner, expert at the entrapment of husbands. Life before Man by Margaret Atwood
According to the passage, the 'Other Woman' by definition is
