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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 1989 Literature In English Questions

Question 41:
This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
'There is something new, for example, about my hands, a certain way of picking up my pipe or my fork. Or else it is the fork which now has a certain way of getting itself picked up, I don't know. Just now, when I was on the point of coming into my room, I stooped short because I felt in my hand a cold object which attracted my attention by means of a sort of personality. I opened my hand and looked I was simply holding the door knob' Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre
The style of writing in the passage can be described as
  • A Introspective
  • B Confused
  • C Confrontational
  • D Passive
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Question 42:
This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
'He taught history classes in the room next to hers.
He was quiet, clean and sincere. They could talk together and were friends long before she felt toleration for his personal habits that she identified as love . He was a dreamy unambitious person...who walked over the earth unhurriedly, as conscious of every step and print his footsteps would leave in the dirt'. Meridian by Alice Walker
The person described in the passage is
  • A A lackadaisical person
  • B Unsaver
  • C Uninteresting
  • D A finicky individual
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Question 43:
This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
'We have come to the crossroads
And I must either leave or come with you
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',
'The Mesh' by Kwesi Brew
The poem ends on a note of
  • A Indecision
  • B Despair
  • C Hope
  • D Determination
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Question 44:
This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.
Which of the following characters fight against vague idealism in life?
  • A Major Petkoff
  • B Captain Bluntschli
  • C Catherine
  • D Raina
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Question 45:
This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
A savage custom, barbaric, out-dated Rejected, denounced, accursed Excommunicated, archaic, degrading Humiliating, unspeakable, redundant, Retrogressive, remarkable, unpalatable what custom does Lakunle refer to in the above excerpt?
  • A The seduction of a maiden
  • B Wrestling contests as an exercise
  • C The practic of polygamy
  • D The payment of bride price
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