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 1691:

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

  Mr. Hardcastle asks Young Marlow to leave his house because

  Options:
  A) Marlow is not fit to be Kate's husband
  B) Young Marlow is more demanding than Hasting
  C) he is fed up with Marlow annoying behaviour
  D) Kate objects to being betrothed in absentia
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1692:

  "In Oyo's eyes there was now real gratitude.

  Perhaps for the first time in their married life the

  Man could believe that she was glad to have him

  The way he was."Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, from the above excerpts, Why was Oyo unhappy with her husband?

  Options:
  A) The man's moral uprightnesswas vindicted at the end
  B) She decided to love the man with all his weaknesses
  C) She realized that money was not everything
  D) The man suddenly came by a lot of money
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1693:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground,

  And tell sad stories of the death of kings;

  How some have been deposed, some slain in war

  Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed

  Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed,

  All murdered;

  William Shakespeare:King Richard II

  The subject matter of the speech above is

  Options:
  A) regicide
  B) suicide
  C) infanticide
  D) parricide
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1694: 'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than the others.In the content of Animal Farm, this statement means that equality Options:
  A) is possible only under socialism
  B) is possible only under capitalism
  C) is not desirable
  D) was possible only in the past
  E) is desirable but impossible.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1695:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'She certainly doesn't want to play

  Other Woman in some conventional, boring triangle. She doesn't feel like an other Woman; she isn't weedling or devious, she doesn't wear negligees or paint her toe nails. William may think she's exotic but she isn't really; she's straightforward, narrow and unadomed, a scientist; not of web-spinner, expert at the entrapment of husbands.

  Life before Man by Margaret Atwood

  According to the passage, the 'Other Woman' by definition is

  Options:
  A) beautiful and vivacious
  B) dishonest and deceitful and
  C) careless and dowdy
  D) manipulative and predatory
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1696: 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 1697: This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.The diction of the play can be described as Options:
  A) political and rhetorical
  B) arrogant and condemnatory
  C) urgent but apolitical
  D) poetic but difficult
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1698: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.The plot of the play is Options:
  A) simple
  B) convoluted
  C) chronological
  D) complicated
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1699: These question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.The party seeks power for Options:
  A) its own sake
  B) its members
  C) people's sake
  D) the nation
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1700:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation.Oh incomprehensible God!

  Shall my pilot be

  My inborn stars to that

  Final call to thee...The literary device used in the first line is

  Options:
  A) burlesque
  B) rhetoric
  C) passion
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is D .