Literature-In-English Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Literature in English is the study of works written in the English language. It includes all forms of writing, such as novels, plays, short stories, and poetry. This subject involves exploring and analyzing these texts to understand their themes and meanings.

• Question 1021: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.Why did Nnaife blame Nnu Ego for all his problems Options:
  A) Because his daughter slapped him
  B) Because his daughter disobeyed him by travelling to abroad
  C) Because his daughter disobeyed him by moving with prostitutes
  D) Because his daughter ran away with a Yoruba man.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1022:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.

  Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is with him a codling when 't is almost an apple; it is with him in standing water, between boy and man. He is very well-favoured, and he speaks very shrewishly; one would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.

  The images in the quotation above express the speaker' s

  Options:
  A) contempt and admiration
  B) hatred and pity
  C) contempt and disregard
  D) disregard and pity
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1023: This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et all (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E et al (eds)_: Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G.: Neked Soles.The experts, of course Disagree The urine test they ordered Said, Negative.'The lines above from Acqah's In the Navel of the Soul depict Options:
  A) contradiction
  B) inevitability
  C) progress
  D) awareness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1024:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In John Keats''Ode to a Nightingale, 'light-winged Dryad of the trees' refers to a

  Options:
  A) butterfly
  B) bird
  C) bee
  D) wood nymph
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1025:

  This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters

  The Major issues at hand in the Sons and Daughters play is that

  Options:
  A) Laboratory attendant is trying to act as a nurse
  B) The medical doctor is in love with Maanan
  C) James sees Awere as a bad influence
  D) Lawyer B is trying to Kiss Maanan.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1026: Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four, To drop his philosophy of life and imbibe the tenets of the party, Winston is subjected to all forms of torture and inhuman treatment by Options:
  A) O'Brien
  B) thought police
  C) Big Brother
  D) Goldstein
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1027:

  A novel written in form of a letter is said to be_______

  Options:
  A) gothic
  B) biographical
  C) epistolary
  D) autobiographical
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1028:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  LINDA: (hearing WILLY outside the bedroom, calls with some trepidation):

  Willy WILLY: Its all right, I came back.

  LINDA: Why? What happened? (slight pause). Did something happen, Willy?

  WILLY: No, nothing happened.

  Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

  Linda's words above express a feeling of

  Options:
  A) darkness and horror
  B) fear and sadness
  C) fear and anxiety
  D) suspicion and shock
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1029:
  From the novel; Twelfth Night

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

  The significance of the sub-plot dealing with Feste, Toby and Maria is the expression of life's

  Options:
  A) fragility
  B) pleasure
  C) comedy
  D) romance
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1030: This question is based on Faceless by Amma DarkoWhat is the reason that caused Odarley's mother to send him away from home? Options:
  A) she chose to go to the street
  B) her mother remarried
  C) she steals her mother things
  D) she wants to poison her boyfriend
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  The correct answer is B .