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

SECTION F: NON – AFRICAN PROSE

NATIVE SON – RICHARD WRIGHT

What have you learned about black life from the conversation between Bigger and Gus at the entrance of the pool room?

SECTION F: NON – AFRICAN PROSE

NATIVE SON – RICHARD WRIGHT

Discuss the role of the black clergy in the Novel?

SECTION E – African Prose

LONELY DAYS – BAYO ADEBOWALE

Examine the author’s narrative technique in the novel?

SECTION E – African Prose

LONELY DAYS – BAYO ADEBOWALE

“No woman’s life is ever complete without a man” How is this applicable to Yaremi in the Novel?

SECTION E – African Prose

FACELESS – AMMA DARKO

Comment on the significance of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Novel

SECTION E – African Prose

FACELESS – AMMA DARKO

Explain Kabira’s presence in the hairdressing salon at Agbogboshie.

SECTION D: NON-AFRICAN POETRY

Examine Blake’s use of diction in The School Boy.

SECTION D: NON-AFRICAN POETRY

How does the poet present death as a voyage in “Crossing the Bar”?

SECTION C: AFRICAN POETRY

Comment on the mood of the poet in “Ambush”

SECTION C: AFRICAN POETRY

Examine the use of contrast in Okara’s “Piano and Drums’

Section B: NON – AFRICAN DRAMA

SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER – OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Assess the role of Tony Lumpkin in the play.

Section B: NON – AFRICAN DRAMA

SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER – OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Examine the importance of the Jewels in the play

Section B: NON AFRICAN DRAMA

A RAISIN IN THE SUN – LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Trace the transformation of Walter “Into his manhood’ in the play?

Section B: NON – AFRICAN DRAMA

A RAISIN IN THE SUN – LORRAINE HANSBERRY

What is the significance of Karl Linder’s visit to the Youngers?

Section A: AFRICAN DRAMA

HARVEST OF CORRUPTION – FRANK OGODO OGBECHE

Consider Aloho as a foil to Ogeyi.

Section A: AFRICAN DRAMA

HARVEST OF CORRUPTION – FRANK OGODO OGBECHE

Comment on the proceedings of the Wasa High Court of Justice 

Section A: AFRICAN DRAMA

BLOOD OF A STRANGER — DELE CHARLEY

Assess Santigi’s reign as King of Mando land. 

Section A: AFRICAN DRAMA

THE BLOOD OF A STRANGER — DELE CHARLEY 

How does the love for wealth and power influence the actions of the characters in the play?

Speaker:    I durst, my Lord, to wager she is honest
            Lay down my soul at stake. If you think other,
            Remove your thought. It doth abuse your bosom
            If any wretch have put this your head,
            Let heaven requite it with the serpents curse
            For if she be not honest, chaste and true
            There’s no man happy. The purest of their wives
            Is foul as slander
            

   (Acts IV, Scene Two, Lines 12-19) 

The character being spoken of is described as___________

Speaker:    I durst, my Lord, to wager she is honest
            Lay down my soul at stake. If you think other,
            Remove your thought. It doth abuse your bosom
            If any wretch have put this your head,
            Let heaven requite it with the serpents curse
            For if she be not honest, chaste and true
            There’s no man happy. The purest of their wives
            Is foul as slander
            

   (Acts IV, Scene Two, Lines 12-19) 

The line “Remove your thought, It doth abuse your bossom” Is best paraphrased ______________

Speaker:    I durst, my Lord, to wager she is honest
            Lay down my soul at stake. If you think other,
            Remove your thought. It doth abuse your bosom
            If any wretch have put this your head,
            Let heaven requite it with the serpents curse
            For if she be not honest, chaste and true
            There’s no man happy. The purest of their wives
            Is foul as slander
            

   (Acts IV, Scene Two, Lines 12-19) 

The speech is in response to___________