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 1051:

  This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
  The opening act in the plays takes place at______

  Options:
  A) the village market
  B) the roadside to the farm
  C) the baale's room
  D) by the village stream
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1052:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation."I cannot rest from travel: I will

  Drink

  Life to the lees, all times I have

  Enjoyed

  Greatly, have suffered greatly"

  A.L. Tennyson:UlyssesThe lines above inform the reader that the poet

  Options:
  A) is determined to suffer
  B) has his poetic imagination kindled
  C) will cure his sour mood
  D) will not drink much
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1053:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

  By allowing Henchard to get drunk and sell off his wife, Hardy makes the point that

  Options:
  A) life is valueless
  B) drinking is disastrous
  C) Henchard is unpredictable
  D) cruelty is part of life
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1054:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation."Busy old fool

  Unruly sun

  Why dost thou thus

  Through windows

  And through curtains

  Call on us?" J. Donne: The Sun RisingThe excerpts above suggests

  Options:
  A) welcoming the sun
  B) indictment of the sun
  C) praise of nature
  D) invitation to the sun
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1055: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.In the play, Mercutio can be described as Options:
  A) fraudulent
  B) gentle
  C) kind-hearted
  D) quarellsome
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1056:

  This Question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.

  The play is preoccupied with

  Options:
  A) the fight by women to keep their goats
  B) the evil that oil money breeds
  C) women liberation from male domination
  D) women's protest against men's wickedness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1057: This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.Titubi joins the farmers' revolt Options:
  A) to ensure its success
  B) as a spy for the establishment
  C) in pursuit of Marshal
  D) to defy the police
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1058:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  ''They came on like a whirlwind, and dashed over the line snorting, kicking, squealing in a compact, pie bald tossing mob of bay,brown, grey backs, eyes staring, necks extended, nostrils red,long tails, streaming. As soon as they had leaped upon the road the thick dust flew upwards from under their hoofs, and within six yards of Glorgio only a brown cloud with vague forms of necks and cruppers rolled by, making the soil tremble..

  Joseph Conrald: Nostromo

  The passage above describes a troop of

  Options:
  A) cows
  B) elephants
  C) camels
  D) horses
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1059: 'He was tall and huge, and his bushy eyebrows and wide nose gave him a very severe look. He breathed heavily, and it was said that, when he slept, his wives and children in their houses could hear him breath'. This passage achieves vividness through the use of Options:
  A) details
  B) simple words
  C) short sentences
  D) the past tense
  E) puntuation.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1060:
  From the novel; The Wives' Revolt

  The question is based on J.P Clark's WIVES'REVOLT.

  In the play the central idea is that gender equity_______?

  Options:
  A) both undesirable and unattainable
  B) desirable and unattainable
  C) attainable and desirable
  D) obnoxious and desirable
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  The correct answer is C .