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 1:

  This question is based on George Orwell's 1984.'Big Brothers Is Watching You' Big Brother Controls life in Oceania Though the four ministries of peace, Love, plenty, are Truth.

  The Couple continue to meet secretly in an attic room above a junk shop owned by

  Options:
  A) Mr. Carrington
  B) O'Brien
  C) Eurasia
  D) Coworker Julius
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  Mr. Hardcastle asks Young Marlow to leave his house because

  Options:
  A) Marlow is not fit to be Kate's husband
  B) Young Marlow is more demanding than Hasting
  C) he is fed up with Marlow annoying behaviour
  D) Kate objects to being betrothed in absentia
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3: Gray's 'Elegy Written in a country churchyard' can be seen as Options:
  A) total condemnation of human life
  B) lament for the death of the great and powerful
  C) an attack on social inequality
  D) a criticism of the poor and the unambitious
  E) a recognition of the poor and simple life.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 4:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  'You know how to hurt with your tongue with your hands. But I don't care, now I've found out that whatever clay I'm made of you're made of the same...'

  What action of the speaker led to the reaction upon which she comments?

  Options:
  A) Eavesdropping
  B) Tale-telling
  C) Errand-running
  D) Gossiping
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 5:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments .

  The novel suggests that an individual who stays apart from his society will

  Options:
  A) be praised for his action
  B) be alienated by his society
  C) be broken by his society
  D) live a fulfilled life
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 6:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

  ''...The sugar-daddy of the boutique dresses wants to marry Binetou. Just imagine...'''

  What is ironical about this statement ?

  Options:
  A) The speaker is Binetou's friend
  B) The sugar-daddy is the speaker's husband
  C) Binetou is the speaker's rival
  D) The sugar-daddy is the speaker's father
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 7:

  The metaphorical significance of Frank Ogodo's 'Harvest of Corruption' is seen in the theme of_____________

  Options:
  A) corruption
  B) unemployment
  C) retribution
  D) betrayal of public trust
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 8:
  From the novel; Animal farm

  This question isbased on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  The execution of some of the animals on the orders of Napoleon is to

  Options:
  A) prevent Snowball from coming back to the farm
  B) make the pigs constitute themselves into a special class
  C) achieve the pigs' socialist goals without further delay
  D) pave way for Napoleon to become an absolute ruler
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 9: A well known epic in English literature is Options:
  A) Robinson Crusoe
  B) The Marchant of Venice
  C) Sons and Lovers
  D) Treasure Island
  E) paradise lost.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 10:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'I had a tent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution-not for old association's sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything'.

  Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

  The uniqueness of Mr. Wopsle's speech is expressed in this passage through

  Options:
  A) a metaphor
  B) an irony
  C) a hyperbole
  D) a flashback
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  The correct answer is C .