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 41: This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
  What is Dan Magaji's advice on the war with the white man? Options:
  A) Caliph should go into exile
  B) The war should start immediately
  C) the palace should be vacated
  D) Caliph should seek support from neighbours
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 42: This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
  Characterization in the play comprises three major groups of Options:
  A) counsellors, spiritual advisers and soldiers
  B) court officeials, British soldiers and beggars
  C) court officials, British official and people
  D) people soldiers and beggars
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 43:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  An inherent quality of the lyric is that it must

  Options:
  A) be sung to a musical instrument
  B) be sung by the poet who composes it
  C) express the poet's subjective emotions
  D) be simple and successful.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 44: Kofi had to live under a master and go to school in keta because Options:
  A) his mothr lived in keta
  B) his father was transfer ti abor
  C) he lost his school fees to gamblers
  D) his father's school was a junior school
  E) his father wanted to punish him.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 45:

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

  The novel is about growth because

  Options:
  A) Farfrae replaces Henchard as the Mayor of Casterbridge
  B) of socio-economic changes in Casterbridge society
  C) Henchard finally permits Farfrae to woo Elizabeth-Jane
  D) Henchard gradually attains self-awareness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 46:

  Cast in a play refers to

  Options:
  A) three of the actors
  B) a few of the actors
  C) an exclusive social class in the play
  D) all the actors
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 47:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  '...Ha! That motoka is motoka

  It belongs to the Minister of Fairness

  Who yesterday was loaded with a doctorate

  At Makerere with whisky...

  Plus I hear the literate thighs of an undergraduate'

  The above stanza from Theo Luzuku's 'The Motoka' demonstrates that the minister is

  Options:
  A) corrupt and immoral
  B) a gifted doctoral graduate of Makerere
  C) an owner of a motor-car which is laden with whisky
  D) underserving of the literate thighs of an undergraduate
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 48:

  The main aim of caricature is to_______?

  Options:
  A) describe
  B) expose
  C) emphasise
  D) ridicule
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 49: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.In The Mouse-trap, the murderer is Options:
  A) Claudius
  B) Lucianus
  C) Gozango
  D) Baptista
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 50:

  Which one of the following is most influential to the substance of Hallowell's "The Dinning Table"?

  Options:
  A) the structure of the poem
  B) the atmosphere of the poem
  C) the poetic style
  D) the setting of the poem
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  The correct answer is D .