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JAMB Literature in English 1983 Question 29

Question 29

Other Set Texts: African Prose

The title of Achebe's Things Fall Apart is taken from poem written by

  1. A.T.S. Eliot
  2. B.William Shakespeare
  3. C.William Wordsworth
  4. D.Wole Soyinka
  5. E.W.B. Yeats.
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Answer: E (W.B. Yeats.)

Explanation

The title comes from Yeats' 'The Second Coming': "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold".