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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb Literature In English Questions

Question 1:
This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days


Yaremi's main job is
  • A Selling cassava
  • B Harvesting cassava
  • C Dyeing taffeta cloths
  • D Sewing taffeta cloths
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Question 2:
This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption

Who impregnated Aloho?
  • A The Commissioner
  • B Chief Haladu
  • C Justice Odili
  • D Inspector Inaku
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Question 3:
_______ In literature is the sequential arrangement of events in a creative work
  • A Cast
  • B Summary
  • C Flaw
  • D Plot
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Question 4:
This question is based on Faceless by Amma Darko

What is the reason that caused Odarley's mother to send him away from home?
  • A She chose to go to the street
  • B Her mother remarried
  • C She steals her mother things
  • D She wants to poison her boyfriend
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Question 5:
This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vicent, T.(ed.):
A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed.): West African Verse.



Tennyon's Crossing the Bar is ________?
  • A A celebration of life
  • B An appreciation of nature
  • C A demystication of death
  • D A celebration of the final passage
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