Post Utme Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 116:

Questions are based on Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles'"

John Durbey field's action of ordering a carriage on learning of his noble ancestors instead of walking home shows that ____________

A. He will become a night like his ancestors
B. He has inherited a great fortune
C. He is rather foolish and easily carried away
D. He will soon become the May of Mariot

Question 117:

Questions are based on Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles'"

"Daze my eyes... "said Durbeyfield, "and here have I been knock lug about year after year. from pillar to post, as if he is more than the commonest feller in the parish..."

From the statement above, the reader can deduce that the society in which Durbeyfield lives is ____________

A. Very rural and undeveloped
B. Class conscious
C. Oppressive
D. Superstitious

Question 118:

Questions are based on William Shakespeare's "Hamlet"

When Ophelia tells her father, hamlet's love interest in her, he ____________

A. Decides to send Ophelia to England
B. Ask the queen to speak to hamlet and encourage hint
C. Tells Ophelia to stop further contact with hamlet
D. Encourages Ophelia to love hamlet

Question 119:

Polonius: yet here Laertes?
Aboani, boar for Shamel. The wind, fits in the shoulder of your sail.

Polonius: yet here Laertes?
Aboani, boar for Shamel. The wind, fits in the shoulder of your sail.

A. Wittenberg
B. Sweden
C. Ireland
D. France

Question 120:

A literary work which is a mocking unit of another work is called ____________

A. A copy-write
B. A slander
C. Pornography
D. A parody