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

Kongi’s Harvest

A woman cried out.The policeman who was edging nearer had been joined by another.Both were edging nearer.Carefully and slowly.But it was not that that had made the woman cry out.She had seen one of the men’s hand slip.He was now holding on by one hand only.The crowd was tense.This was the Kill.Automatically they moved forward in a body.The doctor was in the lead.
The author of this passage creates in the reader

The woods decay,the woods decay and fall,
The vapors weep their burden to the ground,
Man comes and fills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.
The theme of these lines is

Kenneth Kaunda’s Zambia Shall Be Free is a non-fictional work because

Our attitude to the hero of George Elliot’s Sill Marner is one of

In a ‘Portrait’, a poet writes:
At mankind’s feast,i take my place
In solemn,sanctimonious state,
And have the air of saying grace
While i defile the dinner plate.
The tone of this passage may be described as

Peter Abraham’s Mine Boy is about one of the following

We returned to our places,these kingdoms ,
But no longer at ease here,in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their goods.
I should be glad of another death.
The author of these lines is

Mtchali’s ‘Nightfall in Soweto’is about one of the following

Kontiki Expedition demonstrates human

In Kossoh Town Boy,the hero presents his father as

The Adventure of Tom Sawyer depicts Tom’s

She rose up.She walked up to the table.She stirred up the food once more,and lifted it up from the hot plate.She picked up the second pan and placed it on the red coils.From underneath,in the cardboard box,she collected two enamel plates green with a red band.she wiped them with a white napkin hanging on the line over the bed.she brought out two forks and two spoons.
By using details, the author of the above passage makes the scene

Modern African Stories
In Alex la Guma’s A Matter of Taste, it is a matter of taste to eat exactly what you want because

In ‘Night’,Soyinka describes night as

In ‘Telephone Conversation’, the tone of the question ‘You mean-like plain or milk chocolate? is

In Birago Diop’s ‘Vanity’,these two lines ‘Sad complaining voices of beggars
Who indeed will hear them without laughter?’contain

In ‘The Executioner’s Dream’,the first line ‘I dream I saw an eye,a pretty eye’ is

The Concubine
‘Ihuoma,my child’ Wigwe began at last,’really i ought to have come here with more people,but i have avoided formalities because i want to spare myself any embarrassment.Formalities will come later if all goes well’.
Wigwe has come to Ihuoma in order to

I lingered over the choice
But in the darkness of my doubts
You lifted the lamp of love
And i saw in your face
The road that i should take
In ‘The Mesh’ the poet ‘lingered over the choice’ because

A Raisin’ in the Sun
That’s it.There you are.Man say to his woman got me a dream.His woman got me a dream.His woman say:I got to take hold of this here world,baby!And a woman will say:Eat your eggs and go to work….
‘a dream’ in this speech refers to