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 Camara Laye's The African Child.

  Laye's stay with Uncle Mamadou reveals a lot about

  Options:
  A) his unwillingness to stay with his parents
  B) his affection for his uncle
  C) the strength of communal living in Africa
  D) the irresponsibility of his parents
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A poem written to celebrate one's wedding is

  Options:
  A) a pastoral
  B) an epithalamium
  C) a prothalamium
  D) a terza rima
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3: Brutus joined the conspiracy against Caesar because he Options:
  A) knew that Caesar was ambitious
  B) was a great lover of freedom
  C) was made to believe that Caesar was ambitious
  D) respected Casca and had a high opinion on Cassius
  E) was greatly loved by the Romans.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 4:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation."Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth"

  Wole Soyinka:NightNight children in the stanza above reflects the consciousness of

  Options:
  A) birds
  B) armed robbers
  C) animals
  D) spirit beings
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 5:

  A character that is always against the interest of the protagonist is

  Options:
  A) hero
  B) opposition
  C) villain
  D) heroine
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 6:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  ''...It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, my son, but sometimes it is better to be a coward.

  We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live. soon submit to the burial mat.''

  In this passage, Ezeulu is pointing out to his son the wisdom in

  Options:
  A) moderation
  B) bravery
  C) cowardice
  D) sitting on the fence
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 7: This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.__________decides that Juliet should marry a young man named Paris, who has been asking for her hand Options:
  A) Friar Laurence
  B) Lord Capulet
  C) Balthasar
  D) Friar John
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 8:

  These questions are based on Literary AppreciationBut the towering earth was tired sitting in one position . She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horribly, and the work of a million years was lost.

  The subject matter of the extract above IS.

  Options:
  A) sea waves
  B) house movement
  C) earthquake
  D) Storms
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 9:

  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 10:

  This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; 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 - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.

  The subject matter of Kassam's 'Maji Maji is

  Options:
  A) soci-economic crises
  B) independence
  C) politics
  D) colonialism
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  The correct answer is D .