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

A : Gentlemen, once more you are heartily welcome…Sir, you’re heartily welcome.
It’s not my way, you see, to receive my friends with my back to the fire. I like to give them a hearty reception in the old style at my gate. I like to see their horse and trunks taken care of

B : (Aside): He has got our names from the servants already. (To him): We approve your caution and hospitality, Sir.

They are both welcome to the house of Mr. and Mrs

A : Gentlemen, once more you are heartily welcome…Sir, you’re heartily welcome.
It’s not my way, you see, to receive my friends with my back to the fire. I like to give them a hearty reception in the old style at my gate. I like to see their horse and trunks taken care of

B : (Aside): He has got our names from the servants already. (To him): We approve your caution and hospitality, Sir.

The gentlemen are

Read the extract below carefully and answer the question

A : Then to be plain with you …….
I expect the young gentleman I have chosen to be your husband from town this very day.
I have his father’s letter, in which he informs me his son is set out and that he intends to follow himself shortly after.

B : Indeed! I wish I had known something of this before. Bless me, how shall I behave?
It’s a thousand to one
I shan’t like him, Our meeting will be so formal, and so like a thing of business that I shall find no room for friendship or esteem.

The underlined expression reveals that speaker B

Read the extract below carefully and answer the question

A : Then to be plain with you …….
I expect the young gentleman I have chosen to be your husband from town this very day.
I have his father’s letter, in which he informs me his son is set out and that he intends to follow himself shortly after.

B : Indeed! I wish I had known something of this before. Bless me, how shall I behave?
It’s a thousand to one
I shan’t like him, Our meeting will be so formal, and so like a thing of business that I shall find no room for friendship or esteem.

The news of the suitor’s visit makes Speaker B

Read the extract below carefully and answer the question

A : Then to be plain with you …….
I expect the young gentleman I have chosen to be your husband from town this very day.
I have his father’s letter, in which he informs me his son is set out and that he intends to follow himself shortly after.

B : Indeed! I wish I had known something of this before. Bless me, how shall I behave?
It’s a thousand to one
I shan’t like him, Our meeting will be so formal, and so like a thing of business that I shall find no room for friendship or esteem.

Speaker A is the father of

Read the extract below carefully and answer the question

A : Then to be plain with you …….
I expect the young gentleman I have chosen to be your husband from town this very day.
I have his father’s letter, in which he informs me his son is set out and that he intends to follow himself shortly after.

B : Indeed! I wish I had known something of this before. Bless me, how shall I behave?
It’s a thousand to one
I shan’t like him, Our meeting will be so formal, and so like a thing of business that I shall find no room for friendship or esteem.

The name of the youngman coming form town is

OLIVER GOLDSMITH: She Stoops To Conquer

A : Ay, and bring back vanity and affection to last them the whole year.
I wonder why London cannot keep its own fools at home!. In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage coach. Its fopperies come down, not only as inside passengers, but in the very basket.

B : Ay, your times were fine times indeed, you have telling us of them for many a long year. Here we live in an old rumbling mansion, that looks for all the world like an inn, but that we never see company….’

Speaker A and B are in

OLIVER GOLDSMITH: She Stoops To Conquer

A : Ay, and bring back vanity and affection to last them the whole year.
I wonder why London cannot keep its own fools at home!. In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage coach. Its fopperies come down, not only as inside passengers, but in the very basket.

B : Ay, your times were fine times indeed, you have telling us of them for many a long year. Here we live in an old rumbling mansion, that looks for all the world like an inn, but that we never see company….’

Speaker B wishes to take a trip to

OLIVER GOLDSMITH: She Stoops To Conquer

A : Ay, and bring back vanity and affection to last them the whole year.
I wonder why London cannot keep its own fools at home!. In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage coach. Its fopperies come down, not only as inside passengers, but in the very basket.

B : Ay, your times were fine times indeed, you have telling us of them for many a long year. Here we live in an old rumbling mansion, that looks for all the world like an inn, but that we never see company….’

‘ Them’ in line 1 refers to

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Speaker A : Pray son, tell us the word from Ifa
No matter how bad it is, we are ready to hear it. The horns cannot be too heavy for the head of the cow that must bear them. To remain silent is to make light of the the troubles in the land.
Speaker B: I am not making light of them, mother. It is that the word is heard that must be said.

The cause of the trouble is

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Speaker A : Pray son, tell us the word from Ifa
No matter how bad it is, we are ready to hear it. The horns cannot be too heavy for the head of the cow that must bear them. To remain silent is to make light of the the troubles in the land.
Speaker B: I am not making light of them, mother. It is that the word is heard that must be said.

Ifa oracle is consulted at

Read the extract below carefully and answer the question:
Speaker A : Pray son, tell us the word from Ifa
No matter how bad it is, we are ready to hear it. The horns cannot be too heavy for the head of the cow that must bear them. To remain silent is to make light of the the troubles in the land.
Speaker B: I am not making light of them, mother. It is that the word is heard that must be said.

Speaker B is

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Speaker A : Pray son, tell us the word from Ifa
No matter how bad it is, we are ready to hear it. The horns cannot be too heavy for the head of the cow that must bear them. To remain silent is to make light of the the troubles in the land.
Speaker B: I am not making light of them, mother. It is that the word is heard that must be said.

The trouble in the land is

Read the extract below carefully and answer the question:
Speaker A : Pray son, tell us the word from Ifa
No matter how bad it is, we are ready to hear it. The horns cannot be too heavy for the head of the cow that must bear them. To remain silent is to make light of the the troubles in the land.
Speaker B: I am not making light of them, mother. It is that the word is heard that must be said.

Speaker A is

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A : My Lord, you make charges sometimes without grounds
B : I do, do I? Very well then, tell me this
Bedsharer, You heard it. Didn’t you?
That blind bat who calls himself
Seer says I am a bedsharer’…….
What do you think of that? You don’t answer?

Speaker A is

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A : My Lord, you make charges sometimes without grounds
B : I do, do I? Very well then, tell me this
Bedsharer, You heard it. Didn’t you?
That blind bat who calls himself
Seer says I am a bedsharer’…….
What do you think of that? You don’t answer?

The ‘blind bat’ is

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A : My Lord, you make charges sometimes without grounds
B : I do, do I? Very well then, tell me this
Bedsharer, You heard it. Didn’t you?
That blind bat who calls himself
Seer says I am a bedsharer’…….
What do you think of that? You don’t answer?

‘Bedsharer’ implies

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A : My Lord, you make charges sometimes without grounds
B : I do, do I? Very well then, tell me this
Bedsharer, You heard it. Didn’t you?
That blind bat who calls himself
Seer says I am a bedsharer’…….
What do you think of that? You don’t answer?

‘The charges’ are made on the basis of

Read the extract below and answer the question

A : My Lord, you make charges sometimes without grounds
B : I do, do I? Very well then, tell me this
Bedsharer, You heard it. Didn’t you?
That blind bat who calls himself
Seer says I am a bedsharer’…….
What do you think of that? You don’t answer?

‘My Lord’ refers to

OLA ROTIMI: The Gods Are Not To Blame

Read the extract below and answer questions:

Speaker A: No, no, do not thank me. I am only doing my duty
Do not thank me. Instead, let me only you one quuestion
Now you have all come here sprawing, vomiting, rubbling tears on one another, begging me to do my duty, and help you. But what about you yourselves?
What have you done to help yourselves?
Answer. Or is the land at peace? Are not people ailing and dying ?
Speaker A: We are suffering my Lord, we are……..

Where are speakers A and B when the above statements are made? They are at

OLA ROTIMI: The Gods Are Not To Blame

Read the extract below and answer questions:

Speaker A: No, no, do not thank me. I am only doing my duty
Do not thank me. Instead, let me only you one quuestion
Now you have all come here sprawing, vomiting, rubbling tears on one another, begging me to do my duty, and help you. But what about you yourselves?
What have you done to help yourselves?
Answer. Or is the land at peace? Are not people ailing and dying ?
Speaker A: We are suffering my Lord, we are……..

Speaker A’s duty is to