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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 1993 Literature In English Questions

Question 6:
This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
It is dramatic irony that the 'castle which has a gentle air' happens to be the
  • A Orchard of Macbeth
  • B Witches' enclave
  • C Forest of Dunsinane
  • D Death-place of King Duncan
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Question 7:
This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
'The Prince of Cumberland!- That is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o' erleap,
For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires!
Let not light see my black and deep desires;...
Macbeth in this soliloquy refers to his secret longing to become the
  • A King of Scotland
  • B Prince of Cumberland
  • C Thane of Cawdor
  • D Thane of Glamis
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Question 8:
This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
'Accursed be that tongue that tells me so,
For it hath cowed my better part of man;
And be these juggling fiends no more believed,...
That keep the word of promise to our ear,
And break it to our hope...'
The speech above was made when
  • A Macduff confronted Macbeth for the final battle
  • B Macbeth realized the truth of the witches prediction
  • C Duncan heard that Malcolm and Macduff had descended on Dunsinane to attack Macbeth
  • D Macbeth heard that his wife had been killed
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Question 9:
This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
'...Nay, had I power, I should
Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
Uproar the universal peace, confound
All unity on earth .'
The true intention of the speaker is to
  • A Assess the integrity of the addressee
  • B Get power and authority at all cost
  • C Be callous and destructive
  • D Stir commotion in the world
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Question 10:
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'There where the need for good and ''the doing good'' conflict.'
In these two lines from Lenrie Peters' The Fence', the speaker says that
  • A ''doing good'' is the opposite of the need for good
  • B He cannot do good deeds
  • C Action often conflicts with knowledge
  • D He lies on the fence between good and evil
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