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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb Literature In English Questions

Question 26:
'Tired teachers wipe
The chalk dust
On their faces
The school dam bursts
Ans floods of hungry children
Melt into their mother's bosoms'.
In this passage describing the end of the school day, children's movements are made memorable through the use, in lines 4-5 of
  • A Simile
  • B Metaphor
  • C Alliteration
  • D Cadence
  • E Inversions.
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Question 27:
Zambia Shall Be Free is a
  • A Biography
  • B Autobiography
  • C Novel
  • D Novella
  • E Short story.
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Question 28:
In Zambia Shall Be Free although Kaunda was well settled and happy as a teacher at Lubwa, he was restless because
  • A His pay was poor
  • B He wanted to join the army
  • C He quarrelled with his wife often
  • D He wanted to break away and be on his own
  • E He liked to travel.
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Question 29:
What Gerry liked most about Theodore Shephanides in My Family and Other Animals was his
  • A Smart apearance
  • B Difference
  • C Gift of microscope
  • D Lovely tea parties
  • E Inexhaustible knowledge.
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Question 30:
In the early days of the Durrell's sojourn on the island of Corfu, Gerry's most constant companion was
  • A Christaki
  • B Roger
  • C Spiro
  • D Yani
  • E Larry
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