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 571:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

  The image of Beelzebub in the novel effectively captures the character of

  Options:
  A) Simon
  B) Ralph
  C) Bill
  D) Jack
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 572:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

  '...Nay, had I power, I should

  Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,

  Uproar the universal peace, confound

  All unity on earth .'

  The true intention of the speaker is to

  Options:
  A) assess the integrity of the addressee
  B) get power and authority at all cost
  C) be callous and destructive
  D) stir commotion in the world
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 573:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  'This is the words of women. At this moment our star sits in the center of the sky

  We are supreme.'

  These words were spoken by

  Options:
  A) The favourite
  B) Sadiku
  C) Sidi
  D) the third girl
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 574:

  This question is based on WUTHERING HEIGHT.
  What gift did Mr. Earnshaw promise to bring Nelly Dean from Liverpool?

  Options:
  A) A bridle for her horse
  B) A fiddle
  C) Fruit
  D) A set of paints
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 575:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.''Blood was to prove no solace to the king. The rejection he had suffered at Idama's hands pushed his spirit into a comfortless hole in which,alone with himself,he searched in vain for ways to run from his inner emptiness.'

  Ayi Kwei Armah: Two Thousand Seasons.

  The narrator's attitude to the king is one of

  Options:
  A) envy
  B) suspicion
  C) contempt
  D) sympathy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 576: Based on Asare Konadu's A Woman in Her Prime,Asogo is a game in which Options:
  A) mothers lure their babies to sleep
  B) fathers narrate animal stories
  C) boys abuse girls with music
  D) girls sing songs of praise and admonition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 577:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.

  'When our Dead come with their Dead

  When they have spoken to us with their clumsy voices...'

  These lines from Birago Diop's poem. 'Vanity', refer to

  Options:
  A) the way in which the dead communicate with us
  B) the clash of cultures in modern civilization
  C) the elders' lack of sophistication
  D) our inability to understand our ancestors
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 578:

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

  The recurrence of the first person pronoun 'I' in Gabriel Okara's 'The callof the River Nun' creates the feeling of

  Options:
  A) detachment
  B) immediacy
  C) alienation
  D) nostalgia
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 579:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.

  Kalu Uka's Earth to Earth concerned with the

  Options:
  A) fertilization of the earth by moisture
  B) loss of man's property
  C) seasonal flow of nature
  D) happy beginning and sad end of life
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 580: The major cause of the tragedy in The Victims is Options:
  A) the African polygamous marriage system
  B) Nwabunor's jealosy
  C) Ogugua's moral laxity
  D) Obunua's irresponsibility
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  The correct answer is D .