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

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From the novel; Twelfth Night

The play is about love

  • A. longing and ambition
  • B. pretence and hatred
  • C. loss and death
  • D. commitment and marriage
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44
From the novel; Twelfth Night

Valentine:
….But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk,
And water once a day her chamber round
With eve-offending brine; all this to season…

The imagery above describes

  • A. Viola's deep sorrow for her drowned brother
  • B. Olivia's deep sorrow over the loss of her brother's love
  • C. Viola's grief over a love she cannot show
  • D. Olivia's intense grief over the death of her brother
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45
From the novel; Twelfth Night

The author successfully conveys his message through

  • A. interior monologue
  • B. comedy of manners
  • C. satirical performances
  • D. comedy of errors
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46
From the novel; Twelfth Night

X: What country, friends, is this?
Y: This is lllyria, lady.
X: And what should I do in lllyria?
My brother he is in Elysium.
Perchance he is not drown’ d;….

The dialogue above takes place

  • A. in the captain's ship
  • B. in lllyria
  • C. by the sea-coast of lllyria
  • D. by the sea-coast after lllyria
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47
From the novel; Morountodun

….We have no electric, and we still drink tanwiji from the stream. Many of our children are in jail… We protested and your police mounted expeditions to maim us and reduce our houses to ashes…’

The speech is made by

  • A. Titubi role-playing Moremi
  • B. Niniola role-playing Titubi
  • C. Mama Kayode role-playing Baba
  • D. Molade role-playing Marshal
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48
From the novel; Morountodun

….We have no electric, and we still drink tanwiji from the stream. Many of our children are in jail… We protested and your police mounted expeditions to maim us and reduce our houses to ashes…’

The images depicted are those of

  • A. poverty and opulence
  • B. opulence and brutality
  • C. suffering and depression
  • D. suffering and brutality
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49
From the novel; Morountodun

The language of the play is

  • A. ambiguous
  • B. condemnatory
  • C. apolitical
  • D. metaphoric
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50
From the novel; Morountodun

Titubi’s experience at the peasants’ camp is narrated through a dramatic technique called

  • A. reflection
  • B. projection
  • C. dramatic irony
  • D. flashback
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