{"subject":"literature_in_english","questions":[{"q":"Who wrote 'Things Fall Apart'?","o":["Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie","Chinua Achebe","William Shakespeare","George Orwell"],"a":1,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of the following works was written by Chinua Achebe?","o":["Things Fall Apart","Death and the King's Horseman","Pride and Prejudice","Weep Not, Child"],"a":0,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Who wrote 'Death and the King's Horseman'?","o":["William Shakespeare","Mariama Bâ","Wole Soyinka","Ola Rotimi"],"a":2,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of the following works was written by Wole Soyinka?","o":["Animal Farm","Gulliver's Travels","The Raft","Death and the King's Horseman"],"a":3,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Who wrote 'The Lion and the Jewel'?","o":["Charles Dickens","Wole Soyinka","Peter Abrahams","Ngugi wa Thiong'o"],"a":1,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of the following works was written by Ngugi wa Thiong'o?","o":["Weep Not, Child","Death and the King's Horseman","Mine Boy","The Raft"],"a":0,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Who wrote 'The Joys of Motherhood'?","o":["Charles Dickens","Peter Abrahams","John Milton","Buchi Emecheta"],"a":3,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of the following works was written by Buchi Emecheta?","o":["Animal Farm","The Trials of Brother Jero","Half of a Yellow Sun","The Joys of Motherhood"],"a":3,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Who wrote 'Efuru'?","o":["Flora Nwapa","Chinua Achebe","Ngugi wa Thiong'o","William Shakespeare"],"a":0,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of the following works was written by Flora Nwapa?","o":["The River Between","Hamlet","Oliver Twist","Efuru"],"a":3,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Who wrote 'The Gods Are Not to Blame'?","o":["Chinua Achebe","Ola Rotimi","Peter Abrahams","Ngugi wa Thiong'o"],"a":1,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of the following works was written by Ola Rotimi?","o":["The Gods Are Not to Blame","Purple Hibiscus","Arrow of God","So Long a Letter"],"a":0,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Who wrote 'Hamlet'?","o":["Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie","William Shakespeare","Ngugi wa Thiong'o","Wole Soyinka"],"a":1,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of the following works was written by William Shakespeare?","o":["The Palm-Wine Drinkard","Half of a Yellow Sun","Hamlet","A Man of the People"],"a":2,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Who wrote 'Macbeth'?","o":["William Shakespeare","Chinua Achebe","Jane Austen","Flora Nwapa"],"a":0,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Who wrote 'Romeo and Juliet'?","o":["Cyprian Ekwensi","Ngugi wa Thiong'o","William Shakespeare","Flora Nwapa"],"a":2,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Who wrote 'Othello'?","o":["Jonathan Swift","William Shakespeare","Amos Tutuola","Ngugi wa Thiong'o"],"a":1,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Who wrote 'Julius Caesar'?","o":["John Milton","J. P. Clark-Bekederemo","Ngugi wa Thiong'o","William Shakespeare"],"a":3,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Who wrote 'Oliver Twist'?","o":["George Orwell","John Milton","Jonathan Swift","Charles Dickens"],"a":3,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of the following works was written by Charles Dickens?","o":["Paradise Lost","The Joys of Motherhood","Oliver Twist","Things Fall Apart"],"a":2,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Who wrote 'Animal Farm'?","o":["Flora Nwapa","Wole Soyinka","Ngugi wa Thiong'o","George Orwell"],"a":3,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of the following works was written by George Orwell?","o":["Romeo and Juliet","A Man of the People","Death and the King's Horseman","Animal Farm"],"a":3,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Who wrote 'Gulliver's Travels'?","o":["Ngugi wa Thiong'o","Ayi Kwei Armah","Jonathan Swift","William Shakespeare"],"a":2,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of the following works was written by Jonathan Swift?","o":["Gulliver's Travels","The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born","Animal Farm","Death and the King's Horseman"],"a":0,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Who wrote 'Paradise Lost'?","o":["John Milton","Cyprian Ekwensi","Wole Soyinka","Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie"],"a":0,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of the following works was written by John Milton?","o":["The Gods Are Not to Blame","Paradise Lost","Arrow of God","Weep Not, Child"],"a":1,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of the following works was written by Jane Austen?","o":["Macbeth","Mine Boy","Romeo and Juliet","Pride and Prejudice"],"a":3,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Who wrote 'Arrow of God'?","o":["Charles Dickens","Flora Nwapa","J. P. Clark-Bekederemo","Chinua Achebe"],"a":3,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Who wrote 'No Longer at Ease'?","o":["Ngugi wa Thiong'o","William Shakespeare","Jonathan Swift","Chinua Achebe"],"a":3,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Who wrote 'A Man of the People'?","o":["William Shakespeare","Ngugi wa Thiong'o","George Orwell","Chinua Achebe"],"a":3,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of the following works was written by Mariama Bâ?","o":["Things Fall Apart","Macbeth","A Man of the People","So Long a Letter"],"a":3,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of the following works was written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie?","o":["Hamlet","Purple Hibiscus","Mine Boy","Pride and Prejudice"],"a":1,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Who wrote 'Half of a Yellow Sun'?","o":["Chinua Achebe","William Shakespeare","Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie","Wole Soyinka"],"a":2,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Who wrote 'The River Between'?","o":["Wole Soyinka","Peter Abrahams","Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie","Ngugi wa Thiong'o"],"a":3,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Who wrote 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born'?","o":["Flora Nwapa","Chinua Achebe","Ayi Kwei Armah","Mariama Bâ"],"a":2,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of the following works was written by Ayi Kwei Armah?","o":["The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born","Othello","The Lion and the Jewel","Mine Boy"],"a":0,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of the following works was written by Peter Abrahams?","o":["Paradise Lost","The Lion and the Jewel","Mine Boy","Othello"],"a":2,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Who wrote 'The Palm-Wine Drinkard'?","o":["Amos Tutuola","Chinua Achebe","William Shakespeare","Ola Rotimi"],"a":0,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of the following works was written by Amos Tutuola?","o":["Othello","The Palm-Wine Drinkard","Pride and Prejudice","A Man of the People"],"a":1,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Who wrote 'Jagua Nana'?","o":["William Shakespeare","Wole Soyinka","Ngugi wa Thiong'o","Cyprian Ekwensi"],"a":3,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of the following works was written by Cyprian Ekwensi?","o":["A Man of the People","Hamlet","Romeo and Juliet","Jagua Nana"],"a":3,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Who wrote 'The Trials of Brother Jero'?","o":["Wole Soyinka","William Shakespeare","J. P. Clark-Bekederemo","Peter Abrahams"],"a":0,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Who wrote 'The Raft'?","o":["Ngugi wa Thiong'o","Wole Soyinka","Buchi Emecheta","J. P. Clark-Bekederemo"],"a":3,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of the following works was written by J. P. Clark-Bekederemo?","o":["The Raft","The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born","Romeo and Juliet","Julius Caesar"],"a":0,"t":"Authors and Works","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of these best defines Simile?","o":["Words whose sound suggests their meaning","Deliberate exaggeration for effect","A comparison using 'like' or 'as'","A direct comparison without 'like' or 'as'"],"a":2,"t":"Literary Terms","d":"Easy"},{"q":"The literary term for 'A comparison using 'like' or 'as'' is","o":["Euphemism","Simile","Hyperbole","Elegy"],"a":1,"t":"Literary Terms","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of these best defines Metaphor?","o":["The central idea of a work","A drama with a happy ending","A comparison using 'like' or 'as'","A direct comparison without 'like' or 'as'"],"a":3,"t":"Literary Terms","d":"Easy"},{"q":"The literary term for 'A direct comparison without 'like' or 'as'' is","o":["Protagonist","Metaphor","Soliloquy","Ode"],"a":1,"t":"Literary Terms","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of these best defines 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poem","The character who opposes the protagonist"],"a":0,"t":"Literary Terms","d":"Easy"},{"q":"The literary term for 'A seemingly self-contradictory statement that reveals truth' is","o":["Comedy","Ballad","Paradox","Elegy"],"a":2,"t":"Literary Terms","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of these best defines Apostrophe?","o":["Direct address to an absent person or object","Words whose sound suggests their meaning","The main character of a work","The character who opposes the protagonist"],"a":0,"t":"Literary Terms","d":"Easy"},{"q":"The literary term for 'Direct address to an absent person or object' is","o":["Stanza","Paradox","Apostrophe","Plot"],"a":2,"t":"Literary Terms","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of these best defines Soliloquy?","o":["The character who opposes the protagonist","A drama with a happy ending","A character speaking thoughts aloud while alone on stage","Two consecutive rhyming lines"],"a":2,"t":"Literary Terms","d":"Easy"},{"q":"The literary term for 'A character speaking thoughts aloud while alone on stage' is","o":["Alliteration","Oxymoron","Soliloquy","Setting"],"a":2,"t":"Literary Terms","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of these best defines Protagonist?","o":["The main character of a work","Direct address to an absent person or object","A group of lines in a poem","Repetition of initial consonant sounds"],"a":0,"t":"Literary Terms","d":"Easy"},{"q":"The literary term for 'The main character of a work' is","o":["Tragedy","Protagonist","Stanza","Foreshadowing"],"a":1,"t":"Literary Terms","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of these best defines Antagonist?","o":["A group of lines in a poem","Deliberate exaggeration for effect","The character who opposes the protagonist","The central idea of a work"],"a":2,"t":"Literary Terms","d":"Easy"},{"q":"The literary term for 'The character who opposes the protagonist' is","o":["Antagonist","Alliteration","Irony","Ode"],"a":0,"t":"Literary Terms","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of these best defines Tragedy?","o":["A poem of mourning for the 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often meant to be sung","Using mild words for unpleasant ideas","The character who opposes the protagonist"],"a":1,"t":"Literary Terms","d":"Easy"},{"q":"The literary term for 'A narrative poem often meant to be sung' is","o":["Setting","Ballad","Protagonist","Theme"],"a":1,"t":"Literary Terms","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of these best defines Stanza?","o":["Combination of contradictory terms","Two consecutive rhyming lines","A 14-line poem","A group of lines in a poem"],"a":3,"t":"Literary Terms","d":"Easy"},{"q":"The literary term for 'A group of lines in a poem' is","o":["Ode","Metaphor","Sonnet","Stanza"],"a":3,"t":"Literary Terms","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of these best defines Couplet?","o":["Expressing the opposite of what is meant","Two consecutive rhyming lines","A serious drama with a sorrowful ending","A direct comparison without 'like' or 'as'"],"a":1,"t":"Literary Terms","d":"Easy"},{"q":"The literary term for 'Two consecutive rhyming lines' is","o":["Tragedy","Stanza","Couplet","Foreshadowing"],"a":2,"t":"Literary Terms","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of these best defines Flashback?","o":["A lyric poem praising a person or thing","Expressing the opposite of what is meant","A scene that returns to an earlier time","The main character of a work"],"a":2,"t":"Literary Terms","d":"Easy"},{"q":"The literary term for 'A scene that returns to an earlier time' is","o":["Flashback","Onomatopoeia","Elegy","Simile"],"a":0,"t":"Literary Terms","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of these best defines Foreshadowing?","o":["Hints about events to come","Repetition of initial consonant sounds","A serious drama with a sorrowful ending","A narrative poem often meant to be sung"],"a":0,"t":"Literary Terms","d":"Easy"},{"q":"The literary term for 'Hints about events to come' is","o":["Onomatopoeia","Foreshadowing","Flashback","Simile"],"a":1,"t":"Literary Terms","d":"Easy"},{"q":"Which of these best defines Setting?","o":["A poem of mourning for the 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literary term for 'The central idea of a work' is","o":["Comedy","Soliloquy","Theme","Metaphor"],"a":2,"t":"Literary Terms","d":"Easy"},{"q":"The three main genres of literature are","o":["Fiction, history and science","Prose, poetry and drama","Novel, essay and letter","Tragedy, comedy and epic"],"a":1,"t":"Literature in English","d":"Medium"},{"q":"A play is meant to be","o":["Sung only","Performed on stage","Read silently only","Painted"],"a":1,"t":"Literature in English","d":"Medium"},{"q":"A book written in prose is usually","o":["A novel","A sonnet","An ode","A couplet"],"a":0,"t":"Literature in English","d":"Medium"},{"q":"Poetry that tells a story is","o":["Lyric poetry","Dramatic monologue","Narrative poetry","Elegy"],"a":2,"t":"Literature in English","d":"Medium"},{"q":"A person who narrates a story is the","o":["Critic","Narrator","Playwright","Protagonist"],"a":1,"t":"Literature in English","d":"Medium"},{"q":"The point at which the conflict in a plot reaches its peak is 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English","d":"Medium"},{"q":"In 'Things Fall Apart', Okonkwo's village is","o":["Umuofia","Mbanta","Iguedo","Abame"],"a":0,"t":"Literature in English","d":"Medium"},{"q":"In 'Things Fall Apart', Okonkwo's son who joined the Christians is","o":["Ikemefuna","Nwoye","Ezinma","Obiageli"],"a":1,"t":"Literature in English","d":"Medium"},{"q":"In 'The Lion and the Jewel', the Bale of Ilunjinle is","o":["Baroka","Sadiku","Lakunle","Sidi"],"a":0,"t":"Literature in English","d":"Medium"},{"q":"In 'The Lion and the Jewel', the jewel is","o":["Lakunle","Sidi","Sadiku","Baroka"],"a":1,"t":"Literature in English","d":"Medium"},{"q":"In Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', Macbeth is persuaded to kill Duncan by","o":["Banquo","Lady Macbeth","The Porter","Macduff"],"a":1,"t":"Literature in English","d":"Medium"},{"q":"The first line of a poem's stanza rhymes ABAB. This pattern is called","o":["Blank verse","Alternate rhyme","Free verse","Couplet rhyme"],"a":1,"t":"Literature in English","d":"Medium"},{"q":"Verse without rhyme but with regular metre is","o":["Limerick","Free verse","Couplet","Blank verse"],"a":3,"t":"Literature in English","d":"Medium"}]}