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 1561: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
  Romeo is banished to Mantua because he Options:
  A) marries Juliet without parental consent
  B) attends Capulet's party uninvited
  C) attempts to kill Paris his rival
  D) kills Tybalt in a street duel
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1562:

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

  The highest measure women in the community can take to register their protest is to

  Options:
  A) take to prostition
  B) carry out the nude act
  C) abando their husbands
  D) abadon their children
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1563: There is a devil in me that wants things i cannot get' The speaker in the novel Mine boy' is Options:
  A) Lena
  B) Drunk Liz
  C) Malsey
  D) Paddy
  E) Eliza.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1564:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  'The gloom will give way to light

  And the thorny path cleared of pain

  The storms will bow to the prompting of peace

  Lost moments of glory will be restored

  And strangled opportunities reborn

  We shall yet regain the dawn

  The suggestion that runs through the short poem above is that of

  Options:
  A) anxiety and worry
  B) anticipation of positive change
  C) sorrow and dejection
  D) fear of change
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1565: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
  In the novel, Orwell attempts to Options:
  A) satirize the artificiality of a machine controlled society
  B) eulogize the beauty of the socialist system
  C) condemn the disgusting hypocrisy of all communist systems
  D) laud the boundless possibilities of the human intellect
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1566: These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE.Acquah's In The Navel of the Soul describes the Options:
  A) lack of experienced midwives in the society
  B) excesses of the new generation churches and politicians
  C) complications of motherhood and child bearing
  D) conflict between the church and tradition
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1567:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The impression created of life in Kofi Awoonor's

  'Songs of Sorrow' is that of

  Options:
  A) an enjoyable tour
  B) a difficult journey
  C) a pleasant journey
  D) an uneventful tour
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1568:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'Thathat is why wwe must acc-c-cept the universal d-d-dome,b-b-because ththere is no d-d-d-direction. The b-b-bridge is the d-d-dome of rreligion and b-b-bridges d-ddon't jjjust g-g-go from hhhere to ththere; a birdge also faces backwards'

  Wole Soyinka, The Interpreters

  The idiolectal feature of the character's speech is the

  Options:
  A) repetition of consonant sounds
  B) multiplication of medial consonant sounds
  C) repetition of initial consonant sound
  D) duplication of consonant sounds clusters
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1569:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.'

  Immersed in the great depression, they had kept their families together, kept their feet from touching bottom, and kept their faith in the future-their children's future more than their own

  John Updike, Beech: A Book

  In the above passage, ''Kept their feet from touching bottom'' suggests staying

  Options:
  A) afloat literally
  B) buoyant economically
  C) alive
  D) affluent
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1570:

  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 .