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 1451:
  From the novel; Othello

  The question is based on Williams Shakespeare's OTHELLO

  "O heaven; How got she out?
  O treason of the blood!
  Father; from hence trust not your daughters' minds
  By what you see them act. Is there not charms
  By which the property of youth and maid-hood
  May be abused?

  The speaker of the excerpt above is________

  Options:
  A) Brabantio
  B) Othello
  C) Gratiano
  D) Roderigo
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1452: 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 1453:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  The message of the novel is that

  Options:
  A) capitalism is as bad as communism
  B) humanism isis better than aniamalism
  C) communism is better than capitalism
  D) no society exists where everyon is equal
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1454:

  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.

  ''They too are the earth

  Under snakeskin shoes and Mercedez tyres'.

  Niyi Osundare uses the lines above to describe the

  Options:
  A) material for the shoes of the poor
  B) repulsive snakeskin-like bodies of the poor
  C) hope of the oppressed for a better life
  D) oppression of the dispossessed
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1455:

  This question is based on S.I Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily

  The preoccupation of the novel is

  Options:
  A) the life and times of Julian Odili
  B) Norman Obi's courtship of Effua
  C) the benefits of the extended family in Nigeria
  D) the travails and successes of Nkem and Odili
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1456:

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

  In the novel, Serah dies of

  Options:
  A) haemorrhoids
  B) gunshot wounds
  C) asthma
  D) asphyxiation
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1457: In Animal Farm, the commandments originally drawn up by Snowball and Napoleon sought to declare Options:
  A) the supremacy of animal over man
  B) that animal shall in no way imitate human activities
  C) that man is infinitely superior
  D) that animal and men are equal
  E) that animal are inferior to humans.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1458:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

  The father permits his son to go to Paris because he

  Options:
  A) sees no future in traditional African ways
  B) is encouraged by the missionaries
  C) wants him to be future leader
  D) wishes to free him from blacksmithing
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1459:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'But there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet powerfully, there was the conch. The being that had blown that, had sat waiting for them on the platform with the delicate thing balanced on his knees, was set apart. '

  Golding, Lord of the Flies.

  In the passage above, the conch symbolises

  Options:
  A) bestiality
  B) authority
  C) dictatorship
  D) civilization
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1460:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  'Excuse me Bluntschll what did you say had spoiled your chances in life?

  According to Bluntschll what had spoiled his chances in life was

  Options:
  A) an irrepressible Casanovan trait
  B) a chronic baromial temperament
  C) a hard boiled classical disposition
  D) an incurably romantic disposition
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  The correct answer is D .