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JAMB Past Questions
And Answers
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2. „I simply don't understand what's the 8. '0' serpent heart, hid with a
matter with everybody today. Everybody flowering face!' The statement above
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let me down, and the speaker above is refers to
referring to . A. Juliet
A. Fosuwa and Maidservant B. Romeo
B. Hannah and George C. Tybalt
D. Benvolio.
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C. Aaron and Maanan
D. Lawyer B and Mrs. B 9. The spatial setting of the play is .
A. Athens
B. Verona
3. Maanan expresses dislike for Lawyer B
because of .
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A. his condemnation of her choice of
C. Padua
D. Venice
10. Romeo is banished to Mantua because
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he .
B. his recent advances towards her
A. kills Tybalt in a street duel
C. the betrayal of her father's trust
B. marries Juliet without parental
D. the betrayal of his wife's trust.
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4. The traditional order in the play is
C. attends Capulet's party uninvited
represented by .
D. attempts to kill paris his rival.
A. Mrs. B
Questions 11 to 13 are based on
B. Hannah
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C. In Aunt's house
D. In Ofosu's place. C. procreation
D. gender equity.
Questions 6 to 10 based on William
12. The medicine man links the lump
Shakes ear's Romeo and Juliet
6. '0' deadly sin!O rude unthankfulness! discovered on the head of Nnu Ego at
birth, to the .
Thy fault our law calls death, but the
A. possession of physical admirable
kind Prince, Taking thy part, hath rushed
qualities that makes her an epitome of
aside the law And turned that black
perfection.
word...' Deadly sin refers to the .
B. wound inflicted on the slave woman
buried with Agbadi‟s wife
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C. coming back of the Agunwa to the A. totalitarian dictatorship
society to live again B. exploitation and cruelty
D. ill-luck and tragic events attributed to C. retributive justice
D. class segregation.
a predestined fate
19. How did Winston start his rebellion
13. The constant companions of Nnaife's against the state .
family are . A. By engaging in anti-party activities
A. togetherness and happiness B. By keeping a private diary
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B. poverty and hunger C. When he started a secret affair
C. sickness and joblessness D. When he spied on the party.
20.The party seeks power for .
D. disagreement and humiliation
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A. the nation
B. its own sake
Questions 14 to 16 are based on C. its members
Ferdinand Oyano's The Old Man and D. peoples' sake
the Medal.
14. The disagreement between Mvondo and Questions 21 to 30 are based on
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Nti centres on the latter‟s claim to have selected poems from Ker, D. et al
(eds.) New Poetry from African;
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Soyinka, (ed.) Poems of Black
A. assisted Meka in getting the medal
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B. eaten the entire entrails of a sheep (eds.): A selection of African Poetry;
C. eaten more than his share of the food Umukoro, M et al (eds.) Exam Focus:
D. been in a white man‟s office literature in English; Eruvbetine,
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A.E. et al (eds.): Longman
Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.
15. Meka can be best be described as .
I. (ed): West African Verse.
A. an egocentric old man
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D. honour
B. children play in the rain
Questions 17 to 20 are based on C. children are delighted while
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four women move in and out
17. The Ministry of peace is concerned with D. both women and children are
making _. delighted.
A. instruments 23. 'Yet in their finger upon
B. weapons Our navel
C. wars The midwives of the spirit say
D. reconciliation They feel a foetal throb.
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to their . C. a farce
A. friends D. D. satire.
B. relations
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C. grand children 32. Both comedy and tragedy have .
D. families A. happy ending
25. The predominant device in Launko's End B. climax
of the War is . C. tragic hero
A. onomatopoeia D. stanza
B. antithesis
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C. oxymoron 33. A formal dignified speech or writing
D. paradox praising a person or a thing for past or
26. The theme of the poem Give Me The present deeds is
Minstrel's Seat centres on A. premiere
A. divorce
B. fortune
C. marriage
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C. anthology
D. lampoon
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D. companionship.
27. The poet persona in Marvell's To His 34. The narrative style in which the hero
Coy Mistress is willing to praise the tells his own story directly is the .
A. objective
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28. In Lawrence's Bat, the poet persona 35. The physical, historical or cultural
mistakes the bats for background of a literary work is referred
A. owls to as
B. swallows A. episode
C. pipistrello B. plot
D. sparrows C. time
29. In Eliot's Journey of the Magi, the D. setting
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39. The account of experiences of an worst
individual during the course of a journey Time still succeed the former.
is known as The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above
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A. a travelogue is
B. an autobiography A. bbaa
C. a catalogue B. aabb
D. a memoir C. abab
D. abba.
40. Satirical writing employs _.
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A. epigram 45. But the towering earth was tired
B. synecdoche sitting in one position. She moved,
C. irony suddenly, and the houses crumbled,
D. onomatopoeia. the mountains heaved horribly, and
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Questions 41 to 50 are based
on Literary Appreciation.
the work of a million years was lost.
The subject matter of the extract above
is
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Use the quotation below to answer A. storm
questions 41 and 42. B. sea waves
41. „Basha: You dumb skull of a bone C. house movement
D. earthquake.
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A. soldier yesterday.
B. student From the poem above, shadow means
C. domestic servant A. famine
D. lawyer B. bleak future
C. period of sufferings
42. From the tone of the speech above, the D. abstract ideas.
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speaker is obviously
A. enraged 47. Don't panic. Be calm, If you are
B. lackadaisical some how upset ...try to regain your
C. elated exposure.
D. happy. The speaker in the excerpt above is
A. hopeless
43. 'That year the harvest was sad, like a B. uncertain
funeral, and many farmers wept as they C. afraid
dug up the miserable yams. One man D. confident.
tied his cloth to a tree branch and
hanged himself'. Chinua Achebe: Use the lines below to answer
Things Fall Apart questions 48 and 49.
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swarm too hard to stir Was it, for
this the clay grew tall? 0 what made
fatuous sunbeams toil To break
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earth's sleep at all.
The poem can be described as
A. a lyric
B. an epic
C. a sonnet
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D. an elegy.
C. creation of life
D. vanity of life
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B. distortion of life
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50. A cursing rogue with a merry
farce,
A bundle of rags upon a crutch,
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A. aabb
B. abab
C. bbaa
D. abba.
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1. A
2. A
3. B
4. D
5. D
6. D
7. B
8. B
9. B
10. A
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11. C
12. D
13. B
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14. C
15. D
16. B
17. D
18. B
19. A
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20. B
21. D
22. C
23. C
24.
25.
C
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26. D
27. D
28. A
29. C
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30. B
31. C
32. B
33. B
34. C
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36. D
37. C
38. D
39. A
40. C
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41. A
42. A
43. A
44. C
45. D
46. D
47. D
48. C
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A. at the family feast
2. From it’s resolution of conflicts, the pay
can be described as B. when Romeo kills Paris at the tomb
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A. tragedy C. at the reconciliation of the feuding families.
B. comedy D. when Romeo is informed of Juliet’s death
C. farce
D. melodrama 8. The news of Juliet's death is broken to
Romeo in Mantua by
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3. The prevailing theme of the play is ---- A. Balthasar
A. love B. Friar Lawrence
B. affluence C. Boy
C. social decadence D. Friar John
D. self-will
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4. The final harassment of Maanan takes place in 9. In the play, Mercutio can be described as
A. fraudulent
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A. Ofosu’s office
B. Lawyer B’s house B. quarrelsome
C. Lawyer B’s chamber C. gentle
D. Ofosu’s house D. kind-hearted
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B. M. Pipiniakis
C. the white chief
D. M. Fouconi
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Questions 14 to 16 are based on
Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of
Motherhood.
14. For attempted murder, Nnaife was jailed for
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D. two months
C. illiteracy
D. wealth
16. In the novel, the handing over of a baby boy
in a dream to Nnu Ego by her personal god
signifies A. reincarnation
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C. idol worship
D. doom
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B. antagonistic
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C. persuasive
D. pessimistic
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Poems of Black Africa; Senanu K. E and
Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African
Poerty; Unukoro, Met al (eds.): Exam
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B. usefulness of praise singers
C. irony of life
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D. arrangement of war
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Minstrel's Seat exemplifies
A. litotes
B. rhetorical question
C. transferred epithet
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D. synecdoche
A. elision
B. hyperbole
C. suspense
D. oxymoron
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controlled is called
A. aside
B. setting
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C. anachronism
D. flies
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and do not go to others When you
induce opponents to
come to you, then their force is always
empty, like attacking emptiness with
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fullness is throwing on eggs.' Zhang Yu:
The Art of War.
The theme of the passage above is
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A. folly of soldiers
B. inspiration
C. spurring people to action
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D. war
B. parallelism
C. onomatopoeia
D. alliteration
A. acted
B. sung
C. discussed
D. read
35. In drama, dramaturge is he who
A. writes or edits plays
B. feature in a play
C. directs a play
D. acts a film.
36. Travelogue is a work of art written
A. by a famous playwright
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experiences that Leaders easily identify
with is
A. round character
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B. flat character
C. stock character
D. static character
39. The plot of a story generally refers to the
A. intrigue made by a character against the hero
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B. way the writer ends the story
C. way in which the events of the
story are organised ol
D. way in which the writer begins the story
40. The metric pattern in a line of poetry
with five stressed and five unstressed
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syllables is
A. trochaic decametre
B. dactylic metre
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C. iambic pentameter
D. anapaestic metre
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most staff were trooping out of their
offices. The lift was working now and he
squeezed himself into it, breathing with
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difficulty the body odour emitted by one
of the passengers. He sighed with relief
when they got to the ground floor and
tumbled out of the lift.'
Ken Saro-Wiwa: A Forest of Flowers
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In the excerpt above, the subject's
experience in the lift is
A. timely.
B. comfortable.
C. unpleasant
D. amusing
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44. 'Do not thank me, instead, let me ask
you one question, Now you have all
come here sprawling vomiting, rubbing
tears on one another begging me to do
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dying?'
OIa Rotimi: The Gods Are Not To Blame
In the excerpt above, the land is
not at peace because of
A. chieftaincy tussle
B. famine and war
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C. political unrest
D. sickness and death
45. ‘In those days. When civilization kicked
us in the face, when holy water slapped
brows. The vultures built in the shadow
of their talons.' David Diop: The Vulture
The dominant literary device used in
the lines above is
A. pun
B. metaphor
C. personification
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tone is
A. regretful
B. boastful
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C. subdued
D. repentant
47. 'I have said too much unto a heart of stone,
And laid my honour too unchary on it',
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There's something in me that reproves my
fault,. But such a headstrong potent fault it
is That it but mocks reproof.' William
Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
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A heart of stone in the lines above is an
example of
A. metonymy
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B. litotes
C. assonance
D. metaphor
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D. contempt
49. 'Homage to Peregede the triumphant
mother of morning radiant in
Chameleon's velvet. Let today's dawn
bring on its rails trains of good tidings.'
Gbemisola Adeoti: Salutation to the gods
The excerpt above is an example of
A. invocation
B. limerick
C. ode
D. elegy
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KEYS 34. B
17. B
35. A
1. D 18. A
36. D
2. B 19. A
37. D
3. D 20. D
38. A
4. D 21. A
39. C
5. B 22. C
40. C
6. B 23. D
41. A
7. C 24. D
42. C
8. A 25. D
43. C
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9. B 26. C
44. D
10. D 27. B
45. C
11. B 28. B
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12. D 29. C
47. D
13. D 30. B
48. D
14. A 31. B
49. A
15. D 32. D
50. A
16. 33. B
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1. Which Question Paper Type of The lines above suggest that the tragedy in the play
Literature-in- English as indicated above
is given to you?
A. Type Green
B. Type Purple
C. Type Red
D. Type Yellow
Question 2 to 5 are based on J.C. De
Graft's Sons and Daughters.
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2. Who is the paternal aunt to Aaron and
Maanan?
A. Mrs Bonu
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B. Hannah
C. Fosuwa
D. Adwao
3. From the play, George is a
A. laboratory assistant
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B. pharmacist
C. nurse
D. medical doctor ol
Use the quotation below to answer questions
1 and
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5. ‘If you touch me, I shall smash your
face with this bottle.’
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C.James to Awere
D. Awere to Aaron
their life..."
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A. could have been averted C.prayer
B. is predestined D. celebration
C.is brought on enmity
D. brought misfortune on the lovers
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From the lines above, Juliet's beauty is
presented
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A. in contrast to the dark night
B. as a source of envy to all
C.in terms of riches
D. as being outstanding
8. "The all-seeing sun, Ne'er saw match
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since first the world begun."
The lines above were spoken by
A. Count Paris in praise of Juliet
B. Romeo in praise of Juliet
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C.Romeo in praise of Roseline
D. Lady Capulet in praise of Roseline
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9. The major role of Mercutio in the play is to
A. serve as a contrast to Romeo
B. aid and abet Romeo's passion
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C.annoy Tybalt
D. accompany Romeo to Friar Lawrence
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B. Meka is a programme designed for
C. Egamba A. parents
B. thought police
D. Mvondo
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C.the community
D. children
13. "They said their prayers in a monotonous
sing-song, kneeling on their bamboo bed like
camels waiting to be loaded." 20. To drop his philosophy of life and imbibe
The dominant figure of speech in the excerpt above the tenets of the party, Winston is
subjected to all forms of torture and
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inhuman treatment by
A. rhetorical question
A. O'Brien
B. simile
B. thought police
C. metaphor
C.Big Brother
D. mixed metaphor
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Questions 14 to 16 are based on Buchi
D. Goldstein
Soles is characterized by
15. Ona on her dying bed appeals to Agbadi to A. hope and agreement
A. give her a befitting burial B. freedom and self-determination
B. take good care of her children C.pricks and tears
C. take another wife D. disappointed and disarray
D. allow Nnu Ego marry a man of her choice
22. One of the dominant themes if Rubadin's
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16. The little money Nnaife makes after returning An African Thunderstorm is the
from Fernando PO is used for A. relationship between man and woman
A. expanding Nnu Ego's business B. activities of man during rainy seasons
B. taking care of his family C.effect of rain on women and children
C. sending his children to school D. problem of climate change
D. getting more wives
23. In Kunene's A Heritage of Liberation, the
Questions 14 to 16 are based on George weapons are to be preserved for the generation
Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. yet unborn by the
A. gods
17. The novel is mainly classified as a B. elders
A. metaphor C.people
B. hyperbole
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D. government Questions 31 to 40 are based on
general Literary Principles.
24. Give Me The Minstrel's Seat ends on a clarion 31. A literary work in which the characters and
call for events are used as symbols is known as
A. freedom A. characterization
B. peace B. allegory
C. rectitude C.metaphor
D. commitment D. parallelism
25. "...the youthful hue/sits on thy skin 32. Characterization in a novel refers to the
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like a morning dew..." A. writer's opinion of the characters
The excerpt above from Marvell's To His B. way the characters are revealed to the reader
Coy Mistress is an example of C.characters and the way they behave
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A. simile D. reader's opinion of the characters
B. anaphora 33. In literary work, verbal irony refers to a
C. paradox A. device in which the speaker means the
D. onomatopia opposite of what he says
B. situation in which a character
26. In Lawrence's Bat, the poet compares bats with speaks or acts against the trend of
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A. sparrows events
B. swans C.difficult situation which defies a logical
C. swallows or rational resolution
D. crows D. device in which the actor on stage
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27. Elliot's The Journey of the Magi could
be said to examine the issues of
means exactly what he says
C.acoustic
28. "We would be believing we dreamt it" D. tone
The figure of speech in the line above from
Acquah's In the Navel of the Soul is 35. Drama is the representation of a complete
A. apostrophe series of actions by means of
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C. men
D. soldiers 36. A poet's use of regular rhythm is known as
A. allegory
30. The theme of Cope's Sonnet VII is B. assonance
A. art of poetry C.metre
B. adventure D. onomatopoeia
C. contempt for literature
D. isolation 37. A literary genre which directly imitates
human action is
A. drama
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39. The juxtaposition of two contrasting ideas in a
line of poetry is 45 How can I look at Oyo and say I hate long shiny
A. euphemism cars? How can I come to the children and
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B. synedoche despise international schools? And
C. catharsis Koomson comes, and the family sees
D. oxymoron Jesus Christ in him....
The feeling conveyed by the speaker above is one
40. The main aim of caricature is to of
A. describe A. anger
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B. expose B. alienation
C. emphasize C.hope
D. ridicule ol D. despair
D. eulogy
48. "The drums overwhelmed the guns " J.P
Clark:
43. The old man slept in his favourite
Casualties
chair The wind ran its fingers
through his hair He looked like a The poet in the excerpt above uses
tree gone dry of sap And his hands A. litotes
were dry upon his lap The rhyme a B. symbolism
scheme of the poem above is C.onomatopoeia
A. bbaa D. alliteration
B. aabb
49. ‘. They do not see the funeral piles
At home eating up the forests ’
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Life to the lees, all times I have enjoyed
Greatly, have suffered greatly"
A.L. Tennyson: Ulysses
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The lines above inform the reader that the poet
A. is determined to suffer
B. has his poetic imagination kindled
C. will cure his sour mood
D. will not drink much
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12. B
13. B
14. A
15. D
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16. D
17. C
18. A
19. C
20. A
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21. B
22. A
23. A
24. D ol
25. A
26. A
27. C
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28. D
29. D
30. A
31. B
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32. C
33. A
34. A
35. B
36. C
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37. A
38. B
39. D
40. D
41. D
42. A
43. B
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44. A
45. A
46. D
47. A
48. C
49. A
50. B
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Use the excerpt below to answer Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and
questions 2 and 3. Juliet, the lines above reveal the speaker as a
A. violence seeker
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James: Let me swear, woman. And I will B. peace maker
swear by my father's coffin that if.... C. real Montague
D. trouble shooter
2. The lines depict James as a
A. traditionalist 8. Romeo’s mood, at the beginning of the play
B. Christian can be described as
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C. pagan A. melancholic and sentimental
B. dreamy and hopeful
D. Muslim
C. frustrated and pensive
D. gay and elated
B. Awere
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3. The speaker is referring to
A. Fosuwa 9. "O'deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!
Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind
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C. Maanan Prince, taking thy part, hath rushed aside
D. Hannah the law, And turned that black word
"death" to banishment."
4. Aaron' .All I need really is a place in an Art
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B. synecdoche
C. personification
D. metaphor 10. " .. Put up thy sword
Or manage it to part these men with me."
5. From the play, the character of Aaron The speech above was made when
represents the A. Tybalt challenges Romeo to duel
A. painters B. Prince Escalus arrives to make peace
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C. the Catechist 20. Winston Smith works in the Record
D. Nua Department of the Ministry of
13. To the white men, the medal that is A. love
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given symbolizes B. truth
A. harmonious relationship C. peace
B. love D. plenty
C. peace
D. friendship Questions 21 and 30 are based on
selected poems from Johnson, R. et al
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Questions 14 to 16 are based on Buchi (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,
Emecheta’s The Joy of Motherhood. W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu,
14. Nnu Ego is blamed for the misfortunes of her K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of
A. parents African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam
B. husband
C. siblings
D. children
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A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination
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Schools NWOGA, D.I. (ed.) West African
15. According to the novel Nnaife becomes Verse
frustrated when 21. The dominant poetic technique
A. Oshiaju secures a scholarship to study employed in Adeoti's Naked Soles is
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abroad A. zeugma
B. he is arrested and charged for B. oxymoron
attempted murder of his in-law C. hyperbole
C.his wife gives birth to female twins D. onomatopoeia
D. he is recruited into the army
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18. The instruments of power and torture belong to 24. "Let me ask for what reason or
A. the government rhyme women refuse to marry?
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The line above from Marvell's To His Coy
Mistress
depicts
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A. how fast time flies
B. the usefulness of time
C. the measurement of time
D. how fast events unfold
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26. Lawrence's Bat opens with the description of
the
A. scene
B. creatures
C. bats
D. scenery
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27. The theme of Eliot's The Journey of Magi is
A. quest for salvation
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B. escape from persecution
C. nature
D. journey
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and politicians
C. complications of motherhood and child
bearing
D. conflict between the church and tradition
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32. A paragraph in prose is equivalent to a
A. trope in poetry
B. verse in poetry
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C. stanza in poetry
D. meter in poetry
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B. origin
C. custom
D. truth ol
34. A device used in poetry to achieve
emphasis or stress a point is known as
A. rhyme
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B. assonance
C. repetition
D. alliteration
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D. a fable
C. paradox
D. metaphor
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C. climax Familiar matter of today?
D. tragic flaw 44. The lines above show that the persona
A. does not understand the girl's language
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40. The speech made by a character to himself on B. is so much in love with the girl
stage is C. so hates the words of the girl
A. monologue D. understands the girl's songs
B. epilogue
C. aside 45. The line end in a literary device known as
D. soliloquy A. transferred epithet
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B. rhetorical question
Question is based on Literary Appreciation. C. Irony
D. conceit
41. "Women as a clam, on the sea's crescent
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I saw your jealous eye quench the sea's
Fluorescence, dance on the pulse
46. Oh incomprehensible God!
Shall my pilot be
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incessant. Wole Soyinka: Night My inborn stars to that
The lines above suggest that women are Final call to thee...
A. magicians
B. covetous The literary device used in the first line is
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C. dogmatic A. passion
D. seers B. apostrophe
C. burlesque
Use the quotation below to answer question D. rhetoric
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and 43.
"Busy old fool 47. "Busy old fool, unruly sun,
Unruly sun Why dost thou thus."
Why dost thou thus J. Donne:The Sun Rising
Through windows From the lines above, the poet sees the
sun as
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50. "Will college make you a better Olokun
priest?
Will it make you serve our ancestors better?
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Look at me. An able-bodied, strong-hearted
priest
of Olokun. Did I go to college?"
Grace Osifo: Dizzy Angel
The literary device used in the passage above is
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A. simile
B. parallelism
C. onomatopoeia
D. metaphor ol
ho
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13. D 42. D
14. D 43. B
15. C 44. B
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16. A 45. B
17. A 46. B
18. A 47. A
19. A 48. A
20. A 49. C
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21. D 50. D
22. C
23. A
24. D
25. A
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2. In the play, the gods are portrayed as C. populate the Island with Calibans
A. helpless D. marry her.
t.co
B. architects of man's destiny 9. The character associated with savagery in the
C. amorous play is
D. saviours of mankind A. Ariel
B. Stephano
3. Orisaye describes Balogun Kusa as C. Caliban
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A. a great warrior D. Ferdinand
B. an enemy and a butcher 10. Prospero is portrayed as a man who is
C. a friend in need A. full of mistrust for everybody
D. a good leader B. more interested in studying than in governance
4. Erelu is
ol C. dependent on the spirits for his survival
D. eager to conquer the world
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A. the oldest wife of the Oba Akinjobi
B. a courtier to the Alaafin of Oyo Questions 11 to 13 are based on Asare
C. the most brilliant woman in Owu Konadu's A Woman in Her Prime.
D. the first wife of the Oba 11. The novel explores the theme of
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C. lunatic
D. soldier 12. According to the novel, the worst calamity that
can befall a woman is
A. inability to bear male
Questions 6 to 10 are based on
William Shakespeare's The B. inability to marry
Tempest. C. divorce children
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C. the Kyrie must be rendered only in Latin
D. everyone must take holy communion
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A. a soft and gentle husband
B. an uncompromising traditionalist
C. a fanatical Catholic adherent
D. a tough retired soldier.
gis
16. In the Achike family, the character who is
central to the theme is
A. Kambili
B. Mama ol
C. Sisi
D. Jaja
ho
Questions 17 to 20 are based on
Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man
and the Sea.
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D. geisha
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West African Verse.
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A. auditory
B. gustatory
C. visual
D. tactile.
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Poverty can be described as
A. metaphorical
B. sarcastic
C. admonitory ol
D. panegyrical
B. lament
C. sonnet
D. ballad
C. South Africa
D. Ghana.
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D. messenger of hope and peace. A. tragicomedy
B. tragic hero
29. The allusion in Hughes's The Negro C. comedy
t.co
Speaks of Rivers is mainly D. comic relief
A. biblical
B. historical 37. In literature, a flat character can be
C. classical described as one who
D. literary A. dies abruptly
30. Fletcher's Upon An Honest Man's Fortune B. achieves greatness
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encourages people to C. is undeveloped
A. condemn soothsaying D. undergoes changes
B. move in the direction of God
C. accept soothsaying 38. Dramatis personae in a play refers to
D. accept life as it is.
ol
Questions 31 to 40 are based on
A. cast list
B. protagonist and antagonist
C. list of characters
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General Literary Principles D. order of appearance
31. An action in a play that stimulates the audience to 39. The speech made at the end of a
pity a character is dramatic performance is generally
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A. pathos called
B. parody A. a dirge
C. pyrrhic B. a monologue
D. props C. a prologue.
D. an epilogue
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Your head is like a drum that is beaten
43. Fights by the book of arithmetic for spirits. You
The figure of speech in the line above is Your ears are like the fans used for blowing
t.co
A. hyperbole fire. The lines above are a good example of
B. Euphemism A. caricature
C. Litotes B. ridicule
D. Innuendo C. satire
D. lampoon
44. And when you trudge on one horny pads
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Gullied like the soles of modern shoes Pads 50. 'This thing you are doing is too heavy for
that even jiggers cannot conquer you, he said. I went to school only a little
Horny pads in the lines above is a reference to but I have killed many many more years in
a this world than you have'. G. Okara: The
A. policeman
B. madman
C. sole of a pauper
ol voice
It can be inferred from the passage above that the
A. listener is wise
ho
D. sole of a soldier. B. speaker is a porter
45. 'Lift not the painted veil which those who live C. listener is more experienced
call life: though unreal shapes be picture E. speaker is more experienced.
there, And it but mimic all we would believe
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C. couplet
D. sestet
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13. D 39. D
14. B 40. D
15. C 41. D
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16. A 42. B
17. C 43. D
18. D 44. C
19. A 45. A
20. D 46. A
21. C 47. B
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22. C 48. C
23. D 49. D
24. B ol 50. D
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C. enjambment
C. personification D. Ballad
D. pun
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2. The allusion in Hughes's The Negro 9. Rhythm is achieved in Raleigh's The
Speaks of Rivers is mainly Soul's Errand through the use of
A. biblical A. Metaphor
B. classical B. Alliteration
C. literary C. repetition
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D. historical D. Antithesis
3. In Adeoti's Hard Lines, Sodium cyanide 10.The title of Umeh's Ambassador of
is ol Poverty is
A. poisonous A. Repetition
B. adhesive B. A simile
C. sweet
ho
C. an alliteration
D. fragrant D. An irony
4. In owonibi's Honieless, not Hopeless the 11.The repetition of a consonant sound in
persona explains that street beggars quick succession for sound effect is
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5. The poet persona in Serenade is a 12.A play in which the acts succeed one
A. Suitor Another without probable or
B. Mother necessary sequence is
C. spinster A. Episodic
D. Passer-by B. Simple
6. In Cheney-Coker's Myopia, peasants
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C. linear
refer to D. Convoluted
A. Under-privileged masses
13.A technique by which a previous scene
B. Politicians or action can be recalled in a play to
C. farmers shed light on the present action is
D. Rural dwellers A. Climax
7. In Angira's Expelled, the poet persona B. Flashback
laments the C. interlude
A. Loss of his property D. Catharsis
B. Harrowing experiences from the 14. Criticism is a literary activity which seeks
stranger's visit to
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A. Find faults in a literary work A. Afraid
B. Analyse and evaluate a literary B. Excited
work C. compare and contrast novels C. pessimistic
D. Discover the beauty of a literary work D. Reassuring
15.A situation where an actor addresses the 22. 'Her neck is rope-like thin, long and
audience without the other actors skinny and her face sickly pale.' Okot
hearing him is called p' Bitek: Song of Lawino. The style used
A. Soliloquy in the lines is
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B. Chorus A. Narrative
C. aside B. Argumentative
D. Solo C. dramatic
t.co
16.A band of singers and dancers in drama D. Descriptive
who act as a link between the play and 23. 'once upon a time son, they used to
the audience is the laugh with their eyes; but now they
A. Chorus only laugh with their teeth, while
B. Clown their ice-block-cold eyes search
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C. Playwright behind my shadow' G. Okara: Once
D. Cast upon a time The lines above are
17.A character whose name is used as the
ol expressive of
title of the text is A. Friendliness
A. Antagonist B. Insincerity
B. Round
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C. jealousy
C. eponymous D. Sympathy
D. Flat
18.In poetry, the term license 24. 'when she opens her heart the
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D. Honour given to deserving poets B. That his love had a heart surgery
19.The person who takes the leading role in C. the climax of love relationship
a play or novel is the D the anti-climax of love relationship
A. Protagonist 25.'Ay, your times were fine times
B. Actor indeed you have been telling us of
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D. Metaphor D. Havana
27. 'Ay, your times were fine times 32. In summary, the old man can
t.co
indeed you have been telling us of be described as
them for many a long year. Here we A. A Marxist
live in an old rumbling mansion, that B. an idealist
looks for all the world like an inn, C. an optimist
but we never see company.' D. A realist
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Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer. The 33. As he struggled with fish and the
figure of speech in the world like an inn sharks, the old man constantly talks to
is A. hopeful ol himself because
B. frustrated A. He is afraid of the sea
C. regretful B. that is what all fishermen do
D. Happy C. it will make the sharks leave
ho
28. 'Her neck is rope-like thin, long and D. The boy has left him
skinny and her face sickly pale.‟ Okot 34. To the old man, mandolin is
p‟ Bitek:Song of Lawino.The style used in A. A symbol of oppression B.
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D. Search for the missing black hen 45.Gonzalo in the play is
39.According to the medicine man, pokuwaa A. Antonio's brother
t.co
has miscarriage because B. a Milan Senator
A. Kwadwo often beats her C. a Neapolitan Councillor
B. she is barren from birth D. Sebastian's co-conspirator
C. her mother does not offer 46.In the play, the gods are portrayed as
thanksgiving sacrifice A. Saviours of mankind
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D. Kwaswo's mother is a powerful witch B. architects of man's destiny
40.'A priest rushed forward and poured C. helpless
libation... Having thus appealed to
ol D. Amorous
the keeper of the spirit world, they 47.In the play, Osofisan shows that war
waited for results. Moments passed A. Is destructive
before the bearers could move B. is injurious to the gods
ho
again.' The incident narrated above C. builds human society
takes place D. Must be fought with patriotic zeal
A. On the way to the stream 48.Orisaye insists that she receives
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10.
11. A
12. D
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13. A
14. B
15. A
16. D
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17. A
18. C
18. B
19. A
20.
21.
C
D
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22. D
23. C
24. C
25. C
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26. A
27. C
28. A
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30. D
31. C
32. A
33. D
34. C
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36. A
37. C
38. B
39. C
40. C
41. B
42. D
43. C
44. D
45. C
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UTME 2016 LITERATURE-IN-ENGLISH QUESTIONS
D. Rigging
1.The usual works you know these things. We'll
dangle this babe before the Chief fora price.
He will employ her and we can make use of
her to get what we want. She will run the
errands while we pick the bucks'. The babe in
the excerpt above refers to
A. Ogeyi
B. Alice
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C. Ochuole
b. Aloho
t.co
2. '0! God forgive me. Is this a trap or what?
God! Poor girl! Whatever is her reason for
this dangerous decision.'
A. Chief
B. Doctor
C. Inspector Inaku
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D. ACP Yakubu
D. Akpara hotel
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This question is based on
Williams Shakespeare's
Othello
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7. Othello kills Desdemona because the
A. former is jealous
B. former's race is insulted
C. latter is a witch.
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8. Brabantio is opposed to the
relationship between Othello and
Desdemona because
A. he prefers lago
B. Othello is a Moor
ol
C. Roderigo woos her first.
ho
D. Desdemona is too young
Othello
9. 'soft you; a word or two before you go. I
have done the state some service, and
they know't No more of that, I pray you, in
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D. eloping
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ho
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A. Kwei
B. Kpakp
t.co
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C.Adade
D. Ottu
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12. 'She was both a child and an adult and
could act like both
The character being referred to in the
excerpt above is
A. Fofo
B. Baby T.
ol
C. Odarley
ho
D. Obea.
D. Nigeria
A. red
B. black
C. white
D. dull
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This question is based on Richard Wright's
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Native Son
17. Bigger burns Mary body in the
A. toilet
B. basement
C. backyard
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D. wardrobe
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Older is
A. onomatopoeia
B. metaphor
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C. personification
D. apostrophe
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B. Nigeria
C. Ghana
D. Kenya ol
24. Okara's Piano and Drums symbolizes
A. superiority of the white man
ho
B. how Africa is becoming complex
C. simplicity of the European society
D. the complexities of the Western society
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Vanity is
A. inciting
B. submissive
t.co
C. imploring
D. diplomatic
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Our desert tongues lick the vegetable;
blood-the pepper' From the lines above in
Hallowell's The Dining Table, the
persona is ol
A. thirsty
B. displeased
C. hungry
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D. sick
C. lazy
D. greedy
B. a prose
C. drama
D. a poem
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C. describe a place
D. tell a story
t.co
35. The continuation of meaning without pause,
from one line to the next is
A. enjambment
B. synecdoche
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C. alliteration
D. melodrama
C. portrayal of places
D. exposition of human experience
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speaker of the lines is
A. pessimistic
B. optimistic
t.co
C. helpless
D. carefree
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Minister for fairness. Who yesterday was
loaded with a doctorate. At Makerere with
whisky and I don't know what Plus I hear
ol
the literate thighs of an undergraduate
Theo Luzuka: The Motoka The excerpt
above can be described as
ho
A. sad
B. humorous
C. strange
D. serious
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Questions 43 to 50 are
based on Literary
Appreciation.
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B. stop travelling
C. die
D. travel at night
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The lines above convey the feeling of
A. satisfaction
B. hope
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C. disappointment
C. fear
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myself no more I am no man sadiku. My
manhood ended near a week ago.
The lines above reveal that the speaker
A. has become impotent ol
B. loves women
C. is tired of marriage
D. is disgusted with life.
ho
47. 'In those days When civilization kicked us in
the face When holy water slapped our
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A. metaphor
B. pun
C. simile
D. personification.
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50. ‘Behold her, single in the field You solitary
Highland lass! Reaping and singing by
herself
t.co
O listen! For the value profound is
overflowing with sound.’ Words worth:
The Solitary Reaper.
The lines above constitute
A. an apostrophe
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B. an aside
C. an interior monologue
D. soliloquy ol
ho
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9. C
35. A
10. A
36. D
11. C
37. A
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12. A
38. D
13. C
39. B
14. B
40. B
15. C
41. B
16. A
42. B
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17. B
43. B
18. A
44. C
19. D
45. C
20. B
21. A
22. C
ol 46. A
47. D
48. A
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23. C
49. A
24. B
25. B
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C. punishment
D. injustice
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2. The play can be referred to as
A. dramatic irony
B. allegory
C. fable
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D. satire
D. born-again
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The plea in the excerpt above is made by
A. Desdemona to Emilia
B. Othello to lago
t.co
C. Lago to Emilia
D. Cassio to Bianca
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Shall out-tongue his
complaints.'Tis yet to know
Which, when I know that boasting
ol
is an honour,' The speaker in the
excerpt above is
A. Brabantio
ho
B. Othello
C. Cassio
D. Lago
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B. Othello
C. Gratiano
D. Roderigo
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greedy politicians D. A. fear
peer group influence B. envy
13. Fofo chooses to spend the night in C. hatred
t.co
front of the provision store because D. distrust
A. it is a Sunday
B. she is ill 19. Weekly, Bigger is to be paid
C. she does not want to risk losing her A. twenty dollars
job B. twenty-five dollars
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D. she has nowhere to go 1 C. thirty dollars
D. thirty-five dollars
Question 14 to 16 are based on Bayo
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Adebowale's Lonely Days. 20. Mr Dalton is of the opinion that Negroes
are happier when they are
14. Labankada signifies A. together
ho
A. wealth and peace B. servants in the white family
B. wealth and life C. educated
C. wealth and prosperity D. given some respect
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m
Tennyson's Crossing the Bar is that C. future
A. pain D. olden days
B. frustration
t.co
C. hope Question 31 to 40 are based on
D. love General Literacy Principles
31. Totality of the effects produced on a
25. Having a glass of blessings standing by,' reader of a literary work is
The line above from Herbert's The Pulley A. tone
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is an example of B. mood
A. synecdoche C. plot
B. personification ol D. diction
C. hyperbole
D. simile 32. An art form in which singers and
26. Peter's the Panic of Growing Older can musicians performs dramatic work
ho
be referred to as combining text and music is
A. metaphysical A. concert
B. philosophical B. opera
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C. satirical C. theatre
D. metaphorical D. pantomime
33. In literature, local colour is
27. One vivid device in Blake‟s The School A. universal
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Boy is B. restricted
A. oxymoron C. only English
B. rhetorical question D. only American
C. ironical statement
D. metaphor 34.A clue to an event that will happen later
in a work of art is
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D. in pain B. an aside
C. an interior monologue
37. Then I sat myself quiet... for five D. soliloquy
t.co
And forty turbulent years I waited,
sapped, famished,
For love to wake from her sickly
slumber;
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The figure of speech in the last line
above is
A. assonance
B. personification
C. metaphor
D. oxymoron
ol
ho
38. We have rain but hate to plant
We have the heat and the glory of the
rainbow
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A. disappointment
B. indifference
C. anxiety
D. joy
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30.A
11.B
31.B
12.B
32.B
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13.C
33.B
14.C
34.B
15.C
35.A
16.D
36.B
17.C
37.B
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18.A
38.A
19.B
39.A
40.A
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C. metaphor human actions is
D. parallelism A. drama
B. comedy
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2. Characterisation in a novel refers to the C. prose
A. writer‟s opinion of the characters D. poetry
B. way the characters are revealed
to the reader 8. A fable is a story in which
C. characters and the way they A. allegations are made about
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behave characters
D. readers of the characters. B. animals or things are used as
characters
3. In literacy work, verbal Irony refers to a
ol C. there is an important setting
A. device in which the speaker D. the story is told in poetic farm
means the opposite of what he
says 9. The juxtaposition of two contrasting
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B. situation in which a Character ideas in a line of poetry is
speaks or acts against the tread of A. euphemism
events B. synecdoche
C. difficult situation which defies a C. catharsis
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Questions 21 to 25 are based on
14. Windows in mourning in Kofi J.P Clark's Wives Revolt.
wear garments that are
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A. red 21. In the play, the central idea is that
B. black gender equality is
C. white A. both undesirable and unattainable
D. dull B. desirable but unattainable
C. attainable and desirable
15. In the novel, bage cape signifies D. obnoxious but desirable
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everlasting
A. happiness 22. In their flight, the women settle at Iyara
B. sorrow in order to
C. freedom A. cure cross-piece
D. despair.
17. The novel draws a picture of 24. …Those with full breasts have walked
A. a useless past out, and that leaves you, me, and, the
B. a totalitarian future old-girls returned home on retirement,
C. an unstable moment it's the dry season child." The character
D. a peaceful atmosphere to whom the words are spoken in the
play is in
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26. "ill-starred wench, Pale as thy smoke; "I wonder how long, you awful parasites,
When we shall meet at compt" Shall share with me this little bed,
The device used in the line above is And awake me, from my sweet dreams
A. simile be lost,
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B. pun Sucking blood from my poor head...
C. metaphor Mbure: "To Bed-Bug"
D. paradox 31. The lines are an example of a
t.co
A. limerick
27. Othello kills Desdemona because the B. lampoon
A. former is jealous C. light verse
B. former's race is insulted D. light opera.
C. latter is a witch
D. latter is an idol 32. The poet persona expresses dismay
gis
about
28. Brabantio is opposed to the relationship A. bat
between Othello and Desdemona B. cockroaches
because C. grass coppers
A. he prefers Lago
B. Othello is a moor
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C. Rodgerigo woos her first
D. light opera
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B. armed robbers
C. animals
D. spirit beings
t.co
37. Serrated shadows, through
dark leaves
Till, bathed in warm suffusion of
your dapped cells
Sensation pained me, faceless, silent
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as night thieves
Wole Soyinka: “Night”
The dominant mood in the lines above is
one of
A. apprehension
B. defiance
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ho
C. joy
D. indifference
D. alliteration
A. metaphor
B. personification
C. synecdoche
D. metonymy
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11.A 31.A
12.B 32.B
13.B 33.C
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14.B 34.D
15.C 35.D
16.A 36.B
17.A 37.A
18.A 38.C
39.A
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40.B
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ho
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