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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 2001 Literature In English Questions

Question 46:
This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.
In Oswald Mtshali's 'Nightfall in Soweto', night
  • A Drives man's enemy
  • B Fools man's enemy
  • C Hides man's enemy
  • D Aids man's enemy
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Question 47:
This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.
'The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way;
And leaves the world to darkness and to me .
In the lines above from Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard', the imagery is
  • A Of an approaching night in a rustic setting
  • B About a village under a curfew one night
  • C Of an approaching death in a village
  • D Of a man abandoned in his homeward journey
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Question 48:
This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.
In Oswald Mtshali's 'Nightfall in Soweto', night
  • A Drives man's enemy
  • B Fools man's enemy
  • C Hides man's enemy
  • D Aids man's enemy
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Question 49:
This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.The diction of the play can be described as
  • A Political and rhetorical
  • B Arrogant and condemnatory
  • C Urgent but apolitical
  • D Poetic but difficult
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Question 50:
This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Careened,
These oily tears
Dripping down the tears on your depressed face,
Will one day be staunched,
I swear!Ibiwari Ikiriko, Oily Tears
The tone of the poet is
  • A Optimistic
  • B Supplicatory
  • C Sympathetic
  • D Piteous
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