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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 1998 Literature In English Questions

Question 6:
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.
The play is built on
  • A Mistaken identities
  • B Sentiments and realities
  • C Comedy of errors
  • D Conttrasts of characters and ideas
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Question 7:
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.
The epilogue of the play deals with the
  • A Impermanence of nature
  • B Impermanence of love
  • C Impermanence of nature and womanhood
  • D Shortness of love and life
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Question 8:
This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
In ''Hurrah For Thunder'', the poet uses the image of the jungle to comment on his country''s lack of
  • A Civilization
  • B Cleanliness
  • C Order
  • D Leadership
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Question 9:
This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
Who are they that 'live that the earth may die'in Nyi Osundare's ''They Too Are The Earth''?
  • A The beggars sprawled in gutters
  • B The millions who hew wood
  • C People who fritter the forest and harry the hills
  • D Those who hurl water
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Question 10:
This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
''They too are the earth
Under snakeskin shoes and Mercedez tyres'.
Niyi Osundare uses the lines above to describe the
  • A Material for the shoes of the poor
  • B Repulsive snakeskin-like bodies of the poor
  • C Hope of the oppressed for a better life
  • D Oppression of the dispossessed
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