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

  '...these white lilies tossed their little heads then

  In the moon-steeped ponds;

  There was bouncing gaiety in the crisp chirping

  Of the cricket in the undergrowth,...

  These lines from Kwesi Brew's 'The Executioner's

  Dream suggest that

  Options:
  A) even nature rejoices at human sacrifice
  B) nature is indifferent to man's predicament
  C) there is harmony in nature
  D) there is a lot of activity in the undergrowth
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood
  What prompts Nnu Ego to run to the effigy of her Chi is that Options:
  A) she is worried and sick
  B) she is pregnant
  C) the Chi asks her to come
  D) milk is dripping from her breasts
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3: This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.The family that donates to charity is Options:
  A) the Thomas
  B) Buckleys
  C) the Daltons
  D) the Earlones
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 4:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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 recurrent nightmares in Ojaide's 'The Owl Wakes Us' suggest

  Options:
  A) a dreamful existence
  B) anxieties destroying peaceful sleep
  C) repression in governance
  D) broken promises
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 5:

  This question is based on S.I. Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.

  The attitude of the narrator to religion in the novel is

  Options:
  A) fundamentalist
  B) liberal
  C) ambiguous
  D) fanatical
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 6:

  _____________refers to time and place of a drama?

  Options:
  A) place
  B) scene
  C) setting
  D) act
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 7: A question put, not chiefly to elicit an answer, but to make an emphatic statement is known as Options:
  A) paradoxial
  B) metaphysical
  C) logical
  D) rhetorical
  E) leading
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 8: These question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.How did Winston start his rebellion against the state? Options:
  A) By keeping a private diary
  B) when he started a secret affair
  C) when he spied on the party
  D) by engaging ij anti-party activities
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 9:

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

  The main themes in the play are best summed up by the phrase

  Options:
  A) military glory and romantic love
  B) heroism and marriage
  C) innocent women and brave men
  D) realism and romance
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 10:

  A sub-chapter in a piece of drama is a______________

  Options:
  A) Act
  B) Setting
  C) Verse
  D) Scene
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  The correct answer is D .