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 1251: This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles.
  One thing that Angel Clare hates most is Options:
  A) the nation of old family
  B) marrying a girl of her parents'choice
  C) Cambridge education
  D) becoming a minister
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1252: In J.P Clarks 'Abiku' the word 'threshold' means Options:
  A) a line separating the living from the dead
  B) a relic of Abiku's previous life
  C) a mark of a healthy stock
  D) the home of the living
  E) the home of the dead
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1253:

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

  In the poem 'Night' Neto suggests that the oppressed

  Options:
  A) do not believe in victory
  B) are never willing to fight for their rights
  C) are no longer willing to fight for their right
  D) are determined to give meaning to their life
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1254: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.
  Ona has to leave her father's house because Options:
  A) of her love for Agbadi
  B) that is the tradition
  C) her father is dead
  D) of the safety of her child
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1255:

  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.

  'I said I had the tree. It wasn't true. The opposite was true. The tree had me'.

  From Robert Frosts ' Wild Grapes' is

  Options:
  A) the adventures of some wild children in the forest
  B) the dramatic suspension of a child on a tree
  C) the successful climbing of an adventurous boy
  D) reminiscence of man's transcendentalism
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1256:

  This Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  Kate could best be described as

  Options:
  A) s mild tempered heroine
  B) an unassuming aristocrat
  C) a hot-tempered aristocrat
  D) an acutely sensitive character
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1257: Which of the characters in Abraham's Mine Boy is notorious for playing with a Knife? Options:
  A) xuma
  B) Leah
  C) Ma plank
  D) Dladia
  E) Joseph.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1258: This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.
  'Go tell Overami that he has nothing to fear from the white men in matter of fair play....'In the above statement, the White man expects Ovonramwen to Options:
  A) allow the Whiteman free access to Benin
  B) accept gifts from the Whiteman in exchange for land
  C) surrender himself to the whiteman
  D) surrender his chiefs who are in hiding
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1259:

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

  Angel Clare is depicted as

  Options:
  A) a rebellious and self-opinionated character
  B) an independent-minded character
  C) a fastidious and garrulous character
  D) a flirtatious and impulsive young man
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1260:

  These question are based on George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four.

  The novel draws a picture of

  Options:
  A) a useless past
  B) an unstable moment
  C) a peaceful atmosphere
  D) a totalitarian future
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  The correct answer is B .