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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 1991 Literature In English Questions

Question 16:
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
In the poem 'Night' Neto suggests that the oppressed
  • A Do not believe in victory
  • B Are never willing to fight for their rights
  • C Are no longer willing to fight for their right
  • D Are determined to give meaning to their life
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Question 17:
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
'Withering, burn, ghost, a scatter, dusty, half-bare
The above combination of words from Kwesi Brew's
'The Dry Season' thematically suggests
  • A Destruction
  • B Confusion
  • C Desolation
  • D Death
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Question 18:
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
The technique Kwesi Brew employs to portray the nightmarish image in his poem 'The Executioner's Dream' is the description of the
  • A Childhood fun
  • B Only set in a crown of thorns
  • C Gory details
  • D Wicked sappor
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Question 19:
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
In the poem 'The Prodigals' the line 'their heads are claimed by clouds' means that the military leaders
  • A Travel a lot by air
  • B Are haughty
  • C Love sunny weather
  • D Dislike clouds
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Question 20:
This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
'Thereafter, any yam harvest in the fields was harvested in the name of the son'
The 'son' referred to in the above quotation is
  • A Ezeulu's dead son, Obika
  • B Ezeulu's Christian son, Oduche
  • C Mr. Good Country's son
  • D Jesus Christ
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