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 1341:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

  THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME Well it wasn't there anymore with him?

  Someone who survived? Someone who managed to come home and say what exactly happened, not even a rat?

  The lack of precise knowledge concerning the king''s fate as outlined in the passage above, arose as a result of the fact that

  Options:
  A) all the six bodyguards deserted the king
  B) ofof the seven bodyguards, only came back
  C) all the four bodyguards were killed
  D) of the five bodyguards, only one came.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1342:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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.

  What notion dominates Oswald Mtshali's 'The washerwoman's Prayer'?

  Options:
  A) Piety
  B) Ageing
  C) Indifference
  D) Inequality
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1343: 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 1344: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'Today's my last day here. I'm done banging my head against the glass ceiling. They think I don't know why they really hired me. They're talking to dad behind my back. Begging for favours. Work permit renewals. Licences. Tax and duty waivers. Contracts and tendersKen Kamoche: A fragile HopeThe technique employed in narrating the excerpt above is Options:
  A) flashback
  B) stream of consciousness
  C) foreshadowing
  D) play-within-the-play
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1345:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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 phrase, 'pressurized good-breeding' from Wole Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation', refers to the

  Options:
  A) speaker's personality
  B) whiteman's upbringing
  C) lady's personality
  D) persona's upbringing
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1346:

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

  The comic in the play is found in the

  Options:
  A) Miss Hardcastle-Marlow main plot
  B) Miss Hardcastle Marlow main plot two sub-plots
  C) Miss Hardcastle-Marlow main plot and Hasting-Neville sub-plot
  D) Miss Hardcastle-Marlow and Hasting-Neville series of sub-plots
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1347:

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

  Lakunel is presented as a

  Options:
  A) fine specimen of an education young man
  B) truly progressive and enlightened youth
  C) strong defender of the people's tradition
  D) caricature of a modern educated man
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1348:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems 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: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.

  In Mapanje's When This Carnival Finally Closes', the poet is describing the

  Options:
  A) role of spirits in a carnival
  B) preparation for a carnival
  C) role of drumming and dancing in a carnival
  D) role of sycophancy and bad leadership
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1349: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  'But he had to go out, he had to go and borrow some money, If only one naira so that he and his wife could eat if only one naira ! But who would lend him the money? He didn't know. Friends were few indeed. Nobody would lend him money knowing fully well that he hadn't the means to pay back'
  Violence by Festus Lyayi
  The greater emphasis in this passage is on the Options:
  A) feling of doubt
  B) feeling of despair
  C) feeling of desperation
  D) sence of failure
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1350: Travelogue is a work of art written Options:
  A) by a famous playwright
  B) before the death of the author
  C) by an unpopular novelist
  D) on a journey
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  The correct answer is D .