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

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This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.
The allusion to Eurydice’s experience in Robert Frost’s Wild Grapes in an imagery of death and

  • A. reincarnation
  • B. resurrection
  • C. rebirth
  • D. growth
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This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.
‘Love and loveless hate’ and ‘Love lusterless word’ in Lenrie Peters ‘She Came in Silken Drapes ] suggest that

  • A. love is a meaningless word
  • B. joy and sadness often mingle
  • C. love is forever sweet
  • D. love breeds hate
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This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.
Arthur Nortje’s Nightfall is written against the backdrop of

  • A. apartheid
  • B. revolution
  • C. celebration
  • D. violence
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This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.
Kalu Uka’s Earth to Earth concerned with the

  • A. fertilization of the earth by moisture
  • B. loss of man's property
  • C. seasonal flow of nature
  • D. happy beginning and sad end of life
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This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.
David Diop’s Loser of Everything can be seen as

  • A. a lamentation of the destruction of African values
  • B. the suppression of an African village
  • C. a celebration of African values
  • D. an account of warfare between an African community and an invading force
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This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.
The persona in Kassam’s Maji Maji represents the

  • A. warriors
  • B. Germans
  • C. Mzee
  • D. listeners
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This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.
…a huge senseless cathedral of doom’in Kofi Awoonor’s The Cathedral implies

  • A. meaningless foreign religious parctices
  • B. meaningless indigenous religious practices
  • C. the architectural beaty of the cathedral
  • D. the Catholic Church parctices
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This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.
In Acholonu’s The Dissidents, the daughter of my father’ is a

  • A. heroine
  • B. villain
  • C. character
  • D. narrator
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