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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 1999 Literature In English Questions

Question 6:
This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.
The author makes the reader believe his story by using
  • A A confessional style
  • B Elements of humour
  • C Detailed description
  • D Another narrator
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Question 7:
This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.
The novel is a mixture of
  • A Fiction and fantasy
  • B The objective and the absurd
  • C Pessimism and optimism
  • D The real and the supermatural
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Question 8:
This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.
Which of these features give the novel an African setting ?
  • A Marabouts, spirits and family life
  • B Family life, death and marabouts
  • C Blacksmiths, spirits and magicians
  • D Spirits, magicians and death
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Question 9:
This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.
In Adah's view, the white society in the novel is one in which
  • A There is communal feeling
  • B Neighbourliness is lacking
  • C Neighbours live happily
  • D Members are unifriendly
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Question 10:
This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.
To raise the reader's anxiety about the story, the author sometimes
  • A Stops the main story to narrate other events
  • B Creates a lot of funny episodes
  • C Puts too many difficulties in Adans way
  • D Shows that Francis is weaks
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