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

3991
From the novel; Kongi's Harvest

Who accompanied Kongi on his retreat

  • A. Oba Danlola
  • B. No one
  • C. Seyi
  • D. Daodu
  • E. The secretary
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3992
From the novel; Kongi's Harvest

In Kongi’s Harvest, Wole Soyinka dramatizes

  • A. the fall of a great man
  • B. the rise of a carpenters brigade
  • C. the tragedy of Seyi
  • D. the growth and development of political tyranny
  • E. the distruction of a great African country
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3993
From the novel; Kongi's Harvest

Part of the meaning of Kongi’s Harvest lies in the fact that Kongi’s final harvest is

  • A. a big yam
  • B. respect
  • C. disaster
  • D. honour
  • E. fame
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3994
From the novel; Kongi's Harvest

In Kongi’s Harvest, there is a struggle for power between Kongi and

  • A. Daudo
  • B. Oba Danlola
  • C. Segi's father
  • D. the Aweri fraternity
  • E. the people
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3995

In As You Like It, the forest of Arden could symbolize

  • A. passion
  • B. anxiety
  • C. goodness
  • D. wealth
  • E. power
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3996
From the novel; As You Like It

‘Sweet are the uses of adversity
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head’
The speaker of the above lines from As You Like It’ is

  • A. Jacques
  • B. Orlando
  • C. Adams
  • D. Duke senior
  • E. Le Bosu.
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3997
From the novel; Macbeth

Olivia hated Orlando because Orlando

  • A. defeacted charles in wrestling contest
  • B. was in love with Rosalind
  • C. was preferred by the people to himself
  • D. was more educated than himself
  • E. ran away from home
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3998
From the novel; Macbeth

The banished Duke regained his kingdom when his brother Frederick

  • A. was defeated in battle
  • B. was rejected by his people
  • C. died on his way to the woods
  • D. was converted by a religious man
  • E. became too old to rule
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3999
From the novel; Macbeth

Which group of characters appears in Macbeth?

  • A. Audrey, Phebe, Silvius
  • B. Charles, Malcolm, Banquo
  • C. Lennox, Donalbain, Seyton
  • D. Duncan, frederick, Banquo
  • E. Oliver, Ross, Banquo
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4000
From the novel; Macbeth

‘They have tied me to a stake:I cannot fly, But bear like i must fight the course’.
Macbeth here is represented as

  • A. confident and arrogant
  • B. pitiable and evil
  • C. pitiable but courageous
  • D. pitiable and fearful
  • E. merry and confident
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4001

Macbeth is confident that he will not be defeated in battle because

  • A. all his enemies has gone into exile
  • B. he is a better fighter than Macduff
  • C. he had already killed Banquo
  • D. Lady Macbeth gives him courage
  • E. the witches gave him an assurance
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4002

‘But ‘t is strange:
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instrument of darkness tells us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betrays in deepest consequences’.
These words were spoken by

  • A. Banquo
  • B. Macbeth
  • C. Malcolm
  • D. Lady Macbeth
  • E. Macduff.
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4003
From the novel; Macbeth

After the murder of Duncan , Macbeth was still dissatisfied because

  • A. he wanted to see the witches again
  • B. he had only paved the way for Banquo's son
  • C. he felt remorse
  • D. lady Macbeth could not sleep
  • E. there was knocking at the gate
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4004
From the novel; The Marriage of Anansewa

The marriage of Anansewa is a play based on Ghanian

  • A. politics
  • B. traditional marriage ceremonies
  • C. folktales
  • D. lady macbeth could not sleep
  • E. oral poetry
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4005
From the novel; The Marriage of Anansewa

George Kweku Ananse in the marriage of Anansewa was

  • A. a tricker
  • B. an exploiter
  • C. a christain
  • D. an orator
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4006
From the novel; The Marriage of Anansewa

Chief-Who-Is-Chief won Anansewa for his wife because he

  • A. paid the largest dowry
  • B. showed the greatest love for her
  • C. bribed property man
  • D. was a friend of Anansewa's father
  • E. paid her school fees.
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4007
From the novel; The Marriage of Anansewa

Anansewa’s grandmother prays that the man who marries Anansewa

  • A. has respect for others
  • B. is wealthy
  • C. is young
  • D. comes from her own area
  • E. helps the family
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4008

Chaucer presents The Franklin as

  • A. a great noble man
  • B. a devout christain
  • C. an apicurian in taste
  • D. a jovial character
  • E. an ambitious man
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4009

In Gray’s ‘Elegy’ the poor are

  • A. abused
  • B. accursed
  • C. romanticized
  • D. praised
  • E. admonished
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4010

All the images used to describe where the poet always stop in Lenrie Peter’s ; The Fence ‘are suggestive of the character’s

  • A. cleverness
  • B. versatility
  • C. moral weakness
  • D. romatic disposition
  • E. evil nature
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4011

‘Comes this season of the cassia flower,
And pent passion peers through the bower,
Comes the season, and all labour is fallen
All earthen pitches as china broken’
The rhyme scheme in this passageb from kalu Uka’s ‘Earth to Earth’ is

  • A. alternative rhymes
  • B. triplets
  • C. couplets
  • D. free verse
  • E. blank verse
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