Correct Answer: D. is greater with a dielectric between the plates than without a dielectric.

Correct Answer: B) an unpresented cheque

Explanation

The Importance of Being Earnest, it is quite clear that Wilde draws a picture of the life of two main classes in the society: the lower and upper classes. The likes of Miss Prism arid Lane are in the lower class whereas Lady Bracknell, Gwendolen, Algernon and Jack belong to the upper class.

Presuming to be entitled to the best things of life, the upper class holds itself out as superior to the lower.

From a distance, one is expected to regard Algernon, and Jack and Lady Bracknell as a select group who have wards, servants, governesses and country residences. The outside appearance is glamorous. However, seen at close quarters the upper class is not such a special class in terms of morality and ordinary expectations. From the events of the play one forms the impression that the upper class is basically pretentious and hypocritical.

The conspiracy of Algernon and Lane, Algernon's lie and "bunburyism", Jack's double life and Lady Bracknell, who was a nobody in her single status, all indicate that their being born with a silver spoon in their mouths is a sham.

Various events and incidents exemplify upper-class pretentiousness. Algernon blatantly condones what he should have found reprehensible as he aids Lane to lie and deliberately eats up the cucumber sandwiches he has prepared for his aunt, He sneaks out to the address that he so ignobly procures through his sly eavesdropping on Jack and Owendolen's conversation as a means of escaping London life, which he calls "bunburyism". Jack also creates a notorious brother called Ernest to be able to leave the countryside and walk into London at will.

Both the conversation between Gwendolen and Cecily and Lady Bracknell's list and interview of Jack are instances of the high handed treatment of the lower class by the upper class.

The frivolous, materialistic view of the upper class to marriage is farcical. It smacks of- hypocrisy and impropriety.

From their high horse of apparent self-satisfaction, members of the upper class give the careful observer the impression that they are covering up. To do this, they are fill of pretention.

Correct Answer: C. drove out those who sold in the temple

Correct Answer: B. trade and aids-to-trade

Explanation

The scope of commerce is Trade and Aids to trade, i.e commerce is divided into trade and aids to trade.

Correct Answer: A. By keeping a private diary

Correct Answer: D. Allahu Samad

Correct Answer: C. N1,640

Explanation

I = N123; R = 3%' T = 2\(\frac{1}{2}\) yrs; P = \(\frac{100 \times 1}{RT}\)

P = \(\frac{100 \times 123}{3 \times 2.5}\)

principal(P) = N1640

Correct Answer: C. They are highly vital to the exploration of metals

Explanation

The theme of corruption in the play

In this play, a penniless young traveler is mistaken for a government inspector from St. Petersburg by the Mayor and his officials. The Mayor and his officials are easily fooled because of guilt caused by their corrupt practices. The play therefore highlights the corrupt practices of the Mayor and his officials which render them vulnerable to panic and consequently, easily taken in by the fake 'Inspector General'.

(i) Both the mayor and his officials are corrupt. They handle government affairs with nonchalance. They display lackadaisical and hypocritical behaviour towards their duties to the government and the people.

(ii) The Mayor condones the negligence of duty among his officials and this leads to the great panic which makes them mistake a common traveler (Hlestakov) for the Inspector General.

(iii) The Mayor orders the postmaster to unseal every letter passing through the post-office and read through it for any implicating information or petition.

(iv) The Mayor starves the convicts and orders the flogging of the sergeant's wife. He knows that the streets are dirty and the whole town is like a `pothouse' but does nothing about it.

(v) The Mayor and his officials see the proposed visit of the Government Inspector as a punishment for their corrupt practices and that is why they bribe the Government Inspector. Other instances of corruption perpetrated in the play include the following

a. The judge takes bribes.

b. The post-master has been opening and reading people's letters.

c. The Charity Commissioner pays lip service to his job; he does not care whether the patients get well or not before they are discharged since the doctor does not understand a word of the Russian Language.

d. The School Superintendent condones the teachers' unorthodox approach to teaching since he cannot control them.

e. The Mayor gets the police superintendent to accept that the police are perfectly contented' when they are not.

f. The Mayor engages in petty dealings with the traders and orders soldiers to harass them. He collects their goods without paying and compels them to pay tributes to him on All Saints days.

g. The Mayor's handling of the supposed Government Inspector (Hlestakov) clearly shows how deeply corruption has eaten into the system. The Mayor lures Hlestakov to his house as an important guest and this proves his undoing as Helestakov woos his daughter (Marya) after flirting with his wife (Anna)

h. All the officials bribe Hlestakov in the form of 'loans' in order not to have the skeletons in their cupboards exposed.