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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 2001 Literature In English Questions

Question 21:
This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.
The frequent intervention of the Director makes the stage experience of Morountodun very
  • A Prolonged
  • B Boring
  • C Informal
  • D Uncoordinated
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Question 22:
This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.
Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is with him a codling when 't is almost an apple; it is with him in standing water, between boy and man. He is very well-favoured, and he speaks very shrewishly; one would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.
The images in the quotation above express the speaker' s
  • A Contempt and admiration
  • B Hatred and pity
  • C Contempt and disregard
  • D Disregard and pity
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Question 23:
This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.
Come away, come away, death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid...
In the lines above, the character is
  • A Expressing his unhappiness about death
  • B Expressing his preference for a cypress coffin
  • C Lamenting over his unreciprocated love
  • D Wishing for death to come
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Question 24:
This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.
Duke:
Be clamorous, and leap all civil bounds,
Rather than make unprofited return.
Duke's statement above to Cesario means that he should
  • A Make trouble to see Olivia
  • B Jump the fence to see Olivia
  • C Shout be seen and heard by Olivia
  • D Fortify himself against any denial to see Olivia
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Question 25:
This question is based on William Shakespeare'' s Twelfth Night.
The traditional verse from of speech as dialogue in Twelfth Night is used to symbolize the
  • A Impressiveness of the character
  • B Distinction between verse and prose
  • C Function of poetry in the play
  • D Traditionlity of the play
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