Non-African Prose
GCE Literature in English

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. In Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist, Oliver is a young orphan boy born in a workhouse and raised in an environment of cru…

In Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Tess Durbeyfield is presented as a woman destroyed by the rigid moral codes and social hypocrisies of Victorian England. (a) Trace the key events that lea…

In Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, Pip's secret benefactor who finances his gentleman's education is

The narrative technique predominantly used in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights is

In John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, George shoots Lennie primarily because

The central irony in Guy de Maupassant's The Necklace is that Mathilde Loisel spends years in poverty replacing the lost necklace only to discover that

In George Orwell's Animal Farm, the commandment that is ultimately reduced to a single phrase by the pigs is

Which of the following best describes the role of Boxer in George Orwell's Animal Farm?

In Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, Michael Henchard's tragic downfall is primarily precipitated by

In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Kurtz's last words, 'The horror! The horror!' are most accurately interpreted as

In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the green light that Gatsby reaches toward at the end of Daisy's dock most powerfully symbolises

In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, the 'beast' that the boys fear on the island ultimately represents