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This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.
To raise the reader's anxiety about the story, the author sometimes

  • A. stops the main story to narrate other events
  • B. creates a lot of funny episodes
  • C. puts too many difficulties in Adah's way
  • D. shows that Francis is weaks
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1022

This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea.
The struggle between the old man and the fish symbolizes

  • A. the blood thirsty nature of sharks
  • B. man's refusal to grow old
  • C. man's struggle for survival in a harsh world
  • D. the uncertainty of life in a cruel world
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1023

This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea.
'''I wish the boy was here...'''
The old man's cry demonstrates

  • A. a desperation for productivity
  • B. bitterness
  • C. humiliation
  • D. a yearning for human brotherhood
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1024

This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea.
One of the universal themes of the novel is the

  • A. selfishness of man against his own enviroment
  • B. relationship between man and nature
  • C. great struggle between the old man and the fish
  • D. connection of the sea to human greed
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1025

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
Okigbo's 'Hurrah for Thunder'is a prophetic poem because it

  • A. correctly predicts the end of those who abuse power
  • B. predicts the coming of military rulers
  • C. pictures the return of politicians to the scene
  • D. picture the poet going to hell
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