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

This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
The basic idea of any given work of art is its

This question is based on Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter
The letter from used in the novel is particularly effective because it

This question is based on Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter
‘… In spite of your voice and your gift of oratory, you preferred obscure work, less well paid but constructive for your country,…
This description refers to

This question is based on Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter
‘Friendship has splendours that love knows not.
It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love’.
The friendship referred to in these lines is that between

This question is based on Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter
Aunty Nabou’s subtle influence over young Nabou was developed and effected through

This question is based on Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter
What is the source of Aissatou’s success in life?

This question is based on Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God
”…It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, my son, but sometimes it is better to be a coward.
We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live. soon submit to the burial mat.”
In this passage, Ezeulu is pointing out to his son the wisdom in

This question is based on Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God
The immediate cause of the war between Umuaro and Okperi was the

This question is based on Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God
”’It is good for a misfortune like this to happen once in a while,’he said, ‘so that we can know the thoughts of our friends and neighbours. Unless the wind blows we do not see the fowl’s rump.”
The ‘misfortune’ referred to in this extract was the

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?

This question is based on Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God
” This madness which they say you have must now begin to know its bounds. You are telling me to go and find cassava for you…”
In view of the speaker’s aim, this statement is

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.
‘The Fulani Creation Story’ shows that

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.
‘…these white lilies tossed their little heads then
In the moon-steeped ponds;
There was bouncing gaiety in the crisp chirping
Of the cricket in the undergrowth,…
These lines from Kwesi Brew’s ‘The Executioner’s
Dream suggest that

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.
…’the hawk will flutter and turn
On its wings and swoop for the mouse,
The dogs will run for the hare,
The hare for its little life.’
These lines from Kwesi Brew’s ‘The Dry Season’ mean that

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.
As suggested in Agostinho Neto’s ‘Night’, the problems the problem of the blackman today drive mostly from

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.
Theo Luzuka’s ‘The Motoka’ is cast in the mould of

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.
The words ‘naked’ and ‘barefoot’ as used in Christopher Okigbo’s ‘The Passage’ suggest

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.
‘When our Dead come with their Dead
When they have spoken to us with their clumsy voices…’
These lines from Birago Diop’s poem. ‘Vanity’, refer to

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.
Gabriel Okara presents the Black in relation to the child-Front in his poem ‘The Fisherman’s invocation as a source of

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.
‘…Tide and market come and go
And so shall your mother.’
The above lines from J.P. Clark’s ‘Streamside
Exchange’ depict the

This question is based on George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man .
The way Louka carries out her duties as a maid at the Petkoff’s household can best be described as