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 1121: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  .....So tedious is this day
  As is the night before some festival
  To an impatient child that hath new robes And may not wear them'.
  What makes Juliet's night so tedious is the
  Options:
  A) murder of Tybalt by Romeo
  B) arranged marriage between her and Paris
  C) eagerness to be married to Romeo
  D) unconsummated marriage with Romeo
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1122:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears

  'A repulsive game, nonetheless. Majority participation in a voice doesn't turn it into a virtue,no matter the social standing of the participants.

  The game referred to in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) graft
  B) gambling
  C) draught
  D) scrambling
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1123:

  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; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The dominant images in Nyi Osundare's 'They Too are the Earth'are

  Options:
  A) disease, illness and death
  B) aristocracy, affluence and wealth
  C) poverty, suffering and the downtrodden
  D) greed aristocracy and the ambitious
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1124: 'Such drizzling can go on for many days', she said in a dull voice. They both relapsed into silence, making a picture of bereaved children from whom life has suddenly lost warmth, colour, and excitement. There was no fire in the hearth. The mood caught in this scene is one of Options:
  A) excitement
  B) warmth
  C) hopefulness
  D) high spirits
  E) sadness.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1125:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  '...He risked his life that you may boast

  A warrior-hunter for your lord...But you-

  You sell him to the rhyming rabble

  Gloating in your disloyalty...

  In these lines the 'rhyming rabble' refers to

  Options:
  A) clowns who wait on the Bale
  B) children in Lakunle's school
  C) professional singers
  D) the mummers who dance in mockery of the Bale's rumoured impotence
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1126:

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

  The story of the play would have been different but for

  Options:
  A) Miss Hardcastle's attitude towards her guests
  B) Mr. Hardcastle's ignorance of Young Marlow's true identity
  C) the insensitivity of Mrs Hardcastle
  D) Tony's misinformation of Young Marlow and Mr. Hastings
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1127: To be thus is nothing but to be safely thus our fear in Banqo stick deep. soon after these words, macbeth is dramatically 'attended'by Options:
  A) Banqo and his son
  B) two murderers
  C) lady Macbeth
  D) lady Macbeth and a servant
  E) Banqo
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1128:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

  Angel Clare's ambition in marrying Tess d'Urbervilles is to secure a wife with

  Options:
  A) high social standing
  B) great fortune
  C) rustic innocence
  D) a wide knowledge of the world
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1129:

  These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

  'Farewell.- God knows when we shall meet again, I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,

  That almost freezes up the heat of life.

  I'll call them back again to comfort me.

  Nurse!-What should she do here?

  My dismal scene i need must act alone. Come, vial'.

  The intention of the speaker above is to

  Options:
  A) commit suicide
  B) commit murder
  C) escape from harsh realities of life
  D) take a temporary harmful substance
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1130: Animal Farm is a fable illustrating the inevitable degeneration of revolutionary ideals. According to the novel, this degeneration occurs because Options:
  A) social equality, the goal of such idealism, is actually undersirable
  B) revolutionary ideals are dreamed by blood-thirsty individuals
  C) man's greedy individualistic nature always subverts the realization of ideals
  D) revolutionary ideals are inimical to progress
  E) animals are the wrong characters to illustrate man's weaknesses.
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  The correct answer is C .