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 271:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm

  The turn of events in the novel shows that the novelist is

  Options:
  A) iconoclastic
  B) fatalistic
  C) rhetorical
  D) optimistic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 272: 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 273:

  'She unpacked the novels she has brought with her, and turned them over. These were the books she had collected over years from the mass that had come her way. She had read each one a dozen times, knowing it by heart, following the familiar tales as a child listens to his mother telling him a well-known fairy tale'.

  This character may best be described as a woman

  Options:
  A) of habit
  B) of poor means
  C) of wide literary interest
  D) with poor memory
  E) who loved her mother
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 274:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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.

  'Red booth, Red pillar-box Red double-tiered Omnibus squelching tar. It was real!....'

  These lines from Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation show that the poet

  Options:
  A) appreciates the environment of his experience
  B) is insensitive to his experience
  C) is unable to believe his experience
  D) believes both his environment and experience
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 275: Based on Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus, Eugene Achike in the novel is portrayed as Options:
  A) a tough retired soldier
  B) a soft and gentle husband
  C) an uncompromising traditionalist
  D) a fanatical Catholic adherent
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 276: In 'Fulani Cattle', the poet expresses Options:
  A) his belief that cattles are meant to be slaughtered by men
  B) regret that there will soon not be enough cattle to go round
  C) the idea that cattle are created strong to enable them endure the long journey from the north to the south
  D) sympathy for the cattle that are driven from the north to the south of Nigeria to be slaughtered
  E) admiration for the sharp knife with which the cattle are slaughtered.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 277:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

  'Come, 'said Donald quietly, 'a man o'your position should ken better, sir!It is tyrannical and no worthy of you.'

  Which of Henchard's actions is tyrannical?

  Options:
  A) He says Donald must not befriend Elizabeth - Jane
  B) He asks Abel Whittle to go to Blackmoor vale half naked
  C) He dismisses Jopp, his former manager
  D) He decides not to marry Lucetta on Susan's return.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 278:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  Which of the following BEST describes Ezeulu's mood when he was locked up in Okperi by the white administrator?

  Options:
  A) Indifference
  B) Despair
  C) Apathy
  D) Nobility of mind
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 279:

  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.

  '...And your MP with a shining head and triple chin Will mourn your fate in a supplementary question at Question Time'.

  These lines in the context of Richard Ntiru's 'The Pauper', portray the MP as being

  Options:
  A) sympathetic
  B) sad
  C) indifferent
  D) hypocritical
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 280:

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

  In the play, most characters act in ignorance while the audience is aware of the true situation. This is an example of

  Options:
  A) dramatic monologue
  B) dramatic irony
  C) comic relief
  D) epilogue
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  The correct answer is B .