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This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man .
Petkoff [grinning] 'Sergius: tell Catherine that queer story his friend told us about how he escaped after Slivnitza. You remember.
About his being hid by two women'
Since the phrase 'two women in the above extract refers to Petkoff's own daughter and wife, his grinning is a case of

  • A. sarcasm
  • B. ridicule
  • C. irony
  • D. suspense
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This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man .
In what particular way did Raina demonstrate that she had fallen in love with Captain Bluntschli by the end of their first meeting?

  • A. By giving him chocolate creams which he preferred to bullets
  • B. By introducing him to hermother
  • C. By giving him her portrait with an inscription
  • D. By saving his life from the Serbian soldiers
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This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man .
'He did it like an operatic tenor. A regular handsome fellow, with flashing eyes and lovely moustache, shouting his war-cry and charging like Don Quixote at the windmills...'
This account of an important battle in the play carries a tone of

  • A. admiration
  • B. mockery
  • C. bitterness
  • D. alarm
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This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man .
The way Louka carries out her duties as a maid at the Petkoff's household can best be described as

  • A. arrogant and insolent
  • B. opportunistic and self-centered
  • C. haughty and presumptuous
  • D. bold and self-assured
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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.
'...Tide and market come and go
And so shall your mother.'
The above lines from J.P. Clark's 'Streamside
Exchange' depict the
  • A. variation of season
  • B. changing periods of marketing
  • C. constancy of nature
  • D. importance of living
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