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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 1993 Literature In English Questions

Question 16:
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.
The impression created of life in Kofi Awoonor's
'Songs of Sorrow' is that of
  • A An enjoyable tour
  • B A difficult journey
  • C A pleasant journey
  • D An uneventful tour
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Question 17:
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.
T.S. Eliot's 'Journey of the Magi' could be side to examine the issue of
  • A Three trees on the low sky
  • B Empty wine-skins
  • C Spiritual rebirth
  • D Night -fires going out
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Question 18:
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.
'The voice of my education 'in D.H. Lawrence's
'Snake' refers to
  • A Culture
  • B Primitive instincts
  • C The hissing sound of a snake
  • D Someone whispering to himself
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Question 19:
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.
In John Keats''Ode to a Nightingale, 'light-winged Dryad of the trees' refers to a
  • A Butterfly
  • B Bird
  • C Bee
  • D Wood nymph
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Question 20:
This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'
The theme of the novel is
  • A Hatred
  • B Corruption
  • C Poverty
  • D Morality
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