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JAMB Literature in English 2007 Question 14

Question 14

Other Set Texts: Non-African Prose

In Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Mrs. Joan Durbeyfield is portrayed as

  1. A.reticent and deeply emotional
  2. B.strong-willed and boisterous
  3. C.pretentious and calculating
  4. D.fastidious and overbearing.
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Answer: C (pretentious and calculating)

Explanation

Joan sends Tess to the rich d'Urbervilles hoping for a profitable marriage and is proud of the family's 'noble' descent: she is pretentious and calculating.