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This question is based on Literary Principles.
'In the cold hands of death...
his mouth was cotton filled, his brain on scales-was this a trick to prove fore-knowledge after death ?
Wole Soyinka: Post Mortem'
These two stanzas capture the
  • A. fear of death
  • B. ugliness of death
  • C. mystery of death
  • D. knowledge of death
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This question is based on Literary Principles.
''Virture in Russia as in his childhood, seemed something that arose from men, like a comforting body odour, rather than something from above that impaled the struggling soul like a moth on a pin.''
John Updike, Beech: A Book
The tone of the passage above is
  • A. authoritative
  • B. mocking
  • C. appreciative
  • D. scathing
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1248

This question i based on William Shakespeare''s Macbeth.

''This supernatural soliciting

Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill,

Why hath it given me earnest of success,...

What does the phrase ''earnest of success'' refer to?

  • A. Macbeth becoming thane of Cawdor
  • B. Banquo''s children becoming future kings
  • C. Macbeth becoming king
  • D. Banquo''s wearing of the crown
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This question i based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
'... I think our country skins beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds.'
Who made the above statement and to whom?

  • A. Macduff to Ross
  • B. Malcolm to Macduff
  • C. Malcolm to Ross
  • D. Macduff to Malcolm.
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This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born'.
'Ah, you know, the chichidodo is a bird
The chichidodo hates excrement with all its soul.
But the chichidodo only feeds on maggots, and you know the maggots grow best inside the lavatory. This is the chichidodo'.
Which character in the novel is likened to his bird?

  • A. Koomson
  • B. Oyo
  • C. The man
  • D. Teacher
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