A. is killed by a gunman
B. meets with a traffic accident
C. falls to the rocks below Hurtle’s shack
D. poisoned by Hurtle’s mother
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Commonwealth Literature MCQs
The sole passion of Hurtle Duffield was
A. art
B. women
C. reading
D. travelling
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Napoleon Letsitsi, an agricultural expert hired by James Jarvis to assist the people of Ndotsheni, states that he works for whom?
A. the people of Africa
B. the people who pay his salary
C. the villagers of Ndotsheni
D. the nation of South Africa
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Hurtle’s inspiration for his art was
A. the chaos of World War I
B. his poverty-ridden childhood
C. his many lovers
D. other great artists
✅ The correct answer is option C.
At the end of the novel, The Vivisector, what happens to Hurtle Duffield?
A. He accepts a knighthood and regained wealth
B. He teaches his protégé everything he knows
C. He reconciles with his family
D. He dies with a paintbrush in his hand
✅ The correct answer is option D.
When Stephen Kumalo returns from Johannesburg to Ndotsheni, he brings two people with him. Who are these people?
A. his son Absolom and his wife
B. his sister Gertrude and his son Absolom’s wife
C. his sister Gertrude’s son and his son Absolom’s wife
D. his sister Gertrude and her son
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Hurtle has a series of affairs with women he cannot love because
A. all these women are ugly
B. he is afraid falling in love would be too consuming
C. he enjoys the company of many women
D. he cannot settle for just one woman
✅ The correct answer is option B.
What is the name of the girl who lives next to the Courtneys who happens to be quite the match for Hurtle on the subject of manipulation?
A. Nance Lightfoot
B. Hero Pavloussi
C. KathyVolkov
D. Olivia Davenport
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Msimangu confides his fear that by the time the white man learns to love, the black man will have _______________. ?
A. lost all hope
B. mostly died out
C. turned to violence
D. learned to hate
✅ The correct answer is option D.
Hurtle enlists into the army during
A. World War I
B. World War II
C. The Spanish War
D. the Korean War
✅ The correct answer is option A.