Literature in English JAMB, WAEC, NECO AND NABTEB Official Past Questions

This question is based on Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations.
‘I had little objection to his being seen by Herbert or his father for both of whom I had a respect; but I had the sharpest sensitiveness as to his being seen by Drummle, whom I held in contempt. So throughout life our worst weakness and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
Who is the person whose expected visit is being discussed here?

This question is based on Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations.
In the character of Mrs. Pocket, Dickens satirizes

This question is based on Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations.
Pip is made most conscious of his ingratitude to Joe Margery through

This question is based on Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations.
‘On the rampage, Pip and off the rampage, rip; – such is Life!
Joe summarized his wife’s behaviour in this way after Mrs. Gergery’s quarrel with

This question is based on Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations.
Miss Havisham was a nasty, vindictive recluse because she was

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho’s The Victims.
The story in the book is told from the point of view of

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho’s The Victims.
‘It ish only becaush of your late feda that we have been sho shilent. When we came to thish town and had nowhere to shtay, hw gave ush shelter, then let ush work on hish farm and fed ush there
He ish the one we are yeshpecting ‘.
This passage is written in this way in order to show that the speaker

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho’s The Victims.
One thing that Obanua found in the bar which he is unlikely to get at home is

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho’s The Victims.
The fact that the Roman Catholic priest fears and believes that the white robed figures seen in the night are spirits confirms that

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho’s The Victims.
The real victims are

This question is based on selected poems from D.I. Nwoga’s (ed.): West African Verse.
The title of Birago Diop’s ‘Vanity’, is intrigue because the people described in the poem are

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA’S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.

‘Before you, mother Idoto, naked I stand before your watery presence a prodigal’.
In the above lines from Christopher Okadigbo’s Idoto, the speaker is a ‘prodigal’ because he

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA’S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.

In Christopher Okigbo’s ‘Idoto’Idoto symbolizes

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA’S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.

In Leopold Senghor’s ‘Long, long you have held between yours hands’, the poet addresses himself to

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA’S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.

‘But what wakeful of man,
Made of the mud of this earth,
Can stare at the touch of sleep
The stable vehicle of dream
Which indeed is the look of your eyes?’
These lines from J.P. Clark’s ‘Olokun’ suggests that Olokun eyes

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA’S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.

The choice of imagery in J.P Clark’s ‘Olukun’ suggests that the poem intended to arouse

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA’S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.

In David Diop”s ”The Vultures”, the colonialist are portrayed as

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA’S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.

In Lenrie Peter’s ‘We Have Come Home’, the return of the successful scholar is not fulfilling because

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA’S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.

‘Night, and Abiku sucks the oil
From lamps’.

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI”S
THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME

A dominant device which Ola Rotimi uses to suggest an authentic background in the play is

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI”S
THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME

What is the significance of Alaka and Gbonka to the plot of the play ?