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 201: In Great Expectations. while Pip was going away from home to take the coach in London, Joe and Biddy threw old shoes at him because Options:
  A) Pip had in a haste forgotten to pack those old shoes of his
  B) they wanted to play a practical joke on Pip for the last time
  C) Pip had made them angry by his joy to leave home
  D) they believede that the act would bring him good luck.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 202:

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

  The most important objects in the hut are the

  Options:
  A) prayer-rugs
  B) implements used in the workshop
  C) tool-boxes o Camara's father
  D) pcts containng the magic charms
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 203: Dramatis personae in a play refers to Options:
  A) a list of characters
  B) order of appearance
  C) cast list
  D) protagonist and antagonist
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 204:

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

  One of the enriching factors of the comedy is the

  Options:
  A) lopsided resolution of conflicts
  B) manipulation of appearance and reality
  C) contrived misrepresentation of characters
  D) match making attempts by Mrs. Hardcastle
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 205: In Great Expectations, Pip's reaction to the news that his fortune had been bestowed on him by Magwitch was Options:
  A) a sense of disillusionment
  B) a feeling of utter shame
  C) anger of disgust
  D) one of excitement.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 206:

  He put himself in uniform, made one for

  His five-year-old son, and marched with

  The infant from dawn till noon every

  Market day, on the main road singing

  'Kayiwawa beturi...The persona in the excerpt above is portrayed as

  Options:
  A) a soldier
  B) abnormal
  C) energetic
  D) a policeman
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 207:

  A tragic hero, according to the Aristotelian precept, must be a

  Options:
  A) central character after whom the play is named
  B) king with deep affection for his subjects
  C) noble character with hubris
  D) lowly character who suddenly stumbles on some fortunes
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 208:

  This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

  Adah's sojourn in London reveals that

  Options:
  A) marriage is an equal partnership between spouses
  B) her marriege improves
  C) Francis is a hardworking man
  D) the plight of the black woman does not change
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 209: The night is significant in 'Nightfall in Soweto' because Options:
  A) people stay in their houses
  B) crimes are committed at night
  C) the people can rest their tired bones at night
  D) black people are persecuted even in their own homes at night
  E) night brings alot of enjoyment
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 210:

  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.

  In my last Duchess', the poet complains about the Duchess'

  Options:
  A) indiscriminate love and admiration
  B) unrestrained blushing
  C) officious fool
  D) intermitent smiles
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  The correct answer is C .