WAEC and NECO CBT App for Mobile Devices - Candidates, Schools, Centres, Resellers - 100% Offline -Download Now
WAEC and NECO CBT Software for Computers and Laptops - Candidates, Schools, Centres, Resellers - 100% Offline -Download Now

Literature in English Past Questions

Clear Selections
Change Subject Post a Question Check Syllabus Study My Bookmarks Past Questions Videos Watch Video Lessons Download App

WAEC and NECO CBT Software for Computers and Laptops - Candidates, Schools, Centres, Resellers - 100% Offline -Download Now
Your School's Whatsapp Group - Join Us now
Post UTME Past Questions Agent
1116

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.
What notion dominates Oswald Mtshali's 'The washerwoman's Prayer'?

  • A. Piety
  • B. Ageing
  • C. Indifference
  • D. Inequality
View Answer & Discuss JAMB 1997
1117

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.
'BEHOLD her, single in the field,
You solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;...
O listen! for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.'
The lines above from William Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper' constitute

  • A. a soliloguy
  • B. an aside
  • C. an apostrophe
  • D. an interior monologue
View Answer & Discuss JAMB 1997
1118

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'

  • A. indiscriminate love and admiration
  • B. unrestrained blushing
  • C. officious fool
  • D. intermitent smiles
View Answer & Discuss (1) JAMB 1997
Post-UTME Past Questions - Original materials are available here - Download PDF for your school of choice + 1 year SMS alerts
WAEC and NECO CBT App for Mobile Devices - Candidates, Schools, Centres, Resellers - 100% Offline -Download Now
Post UTME Past Questions Agent
1119

This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
The two major pervasive sources of social problems in the community of the stillborn are

  • A. ignorance and poverty
  • B. modrnization and foreign culture
  • C. Christianity and the quest for wealth
  • D. witchcraft and Christianity
View Answer & Discuss JAMB 1997
1120

This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
The dialogue at the end of the novel reveals

  • A. Li's resolve to sustain her marriage
  • B. Li's tragic end
  • C. Awa's role as the man of the house
  • D. the cycle of life in Li's family
View Answer & Discuss JAMB 1997
Start a Free Practice Test
 
WAEC and NECO CBT App for Mobile Devices - Candidates, Schools, Centres, Resellers - 100% Offline -Download Now
Your School's Whatsapp Group - Join Us now
Post UTME Past Questions Agent
WAEC and NECO CBT Software for Computers and Laptops - Candidates, Schools, Centres, Resellers - 100% Offline -Download Now