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 Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

  The fact that the Roman Catholic priest fears and believes that the white robed figures seen in the night are spirits confirms that

  Options:
  A) the priest was only an impostor
  B) superstition reigns superme in Ozala
  C) traditional religion will never succumb to Christianity in Ozala
  D) the pieces of stones these white robed figures carried away were indeed sacred
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2:

  This question is based on RAIDER OF THE TREASURE TROVE.

  "To fly flags of joy" Two figures of speech used here are

  Options:
  A) alliteration and personification
  B) onomatopoeia and simile
  C) metaphor and alliteration
  D) simile and personification
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

  Which of these features give the novel an African setting ?

  Options:
  A) Marabouts, spirits and family life
  B) Family life, death and marabouts
  C) Blacksmiths, spirits and magicians
  D) Spirits, magicians and death
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 4: These question are based on George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four.The power and oppression of an irresistible evil debased Winton's dreams of Options:
  A) freedom and democracy
  B) wealth and capitalism
  C) sovereignty
  D) internal security
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 5:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'El - Hadji Abdou Kader Beye was received in princely style at the girl's home. The food was exquisite and the scent of incense filled N'Gone's small wooden room. Nothing was omitted in the careful process of conditioning the man.'

  Sembane Ousmane, 'Xala'

  The writer suggests in the passage above that El-Hadji is

  Options:
  A) a prince
  B) a food lover
  C) being entertained
  D) being manipulated
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 6:

  This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea.

  '''I wish the boy was here...'''

  The old man's cry demonstrates

  Options:
  A) a desperation for productivity
  B) bitterness
  C) humiliation
  D) a yearning for human brotherhood
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 7: The word 'Fence' in peter's poem 'The Fence'symbolizes Options:
  A) racial prejudice
  B) falsehood
  C) truth
  D) moral indecision
  E) social classes.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 8:

  This question is based on LOOK BACK IN ANGER.
  What were the other businesses Jimmy porter had tried apart from the sweet stall business?

  Options:
  A) farming, teaching and advertising
  B) Teaching, painting and trumpeting
  C) Journalism, faming and teaching.
  D) Journalism, advertising, and vacuum cleaning
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 9:

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

  The dominant mood in 'Ode to a Nightingale' is that of

  Options:
  A) anxiety
  B) melancholy
  C) helplessness
  D) fury
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 10:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's

  Most of Tess'misery as a girl-mother comes from the thought of

  Options:
  A) herselfas the parent of a nameless child
  B) the world's concern about her breaking social law
  C) herself as a spouseless mother
  D) her inexperience in childcare
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  The correct answer is B .