Literature Past Questions And Answers

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921

This question is based on General Literary Principles

Cast in a play refers to

  • A. all the actors
  • B. three of the actors
  • C. a few of the actors
  • D. an exclusive social class in the play
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2005
922

''Chief, the boys are getting more expensive to handle. They continue to demand for increased pay and you know what you give for expenses. Please try and look into a possible increase in the overhead allocation.

This smuggling racket is becoming too hot to handle you know, the risk involved'.

The setting of the play is

  • A. Gbossa
  • B. Benue
  • C. Nassarawa
  • D. Jabu
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2016
923

Read the extract and answer the question

Thrift, thrift,....! the funeral baked meats

Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

Would I had seen that day,.....!

My father! _ Me thinks I see my father.

(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 180-184)

The character being addressed is

  • A. Laertes
  • B. Polonius
  • C. Horatio
  • D. the King
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2008 OBJ
924

This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

'... In spite of your voice and your gift of oratory, you preferred obscure work, less well paid but constructive for your country,...

This description refers to

  • A. Modou Fall
  • B. Mawdo Ba
  • C. Daouda Dieng
  • D. Aissatou
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1990
925

_______ In literature is the sequential arrangement of events in a creative work

  • A. Cast
  • B. Summary
  • C. Flaw
  • D. Plot
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2017
926

This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters.

  • A. James agrees that Aaron and Maanan should study what they want
  • B. Lawyer B harasses Maanan in his office
  • C. Haanah, James' wife convinces him
  • D. Aaron and Maanan agree to read the courses James chooses for them
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2008
927

Read the extract and answer the question

Tell me, heavenly bow,

If Venus or her son, as thou dost know,

Do now attend the queen? Since they did plot

The means that dusky Dis my daughter got,

Her and her blind boy's scandalled company

I have forsworn.

(Act IV, scene one lines 86-91)

The character addressed is

  • A. Caliban
  • B. Iris
  • C. Ceres
  • D. Venus
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2011 OBJ
928

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

Point of view is a technique that is commonly associated with

  • A. the narrative structure
  • B. characterization
  • C. plot
  • D. atmosphere
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1997
929

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.

The hypocritical character in the play is

  • A. Montano
  • B. lago
  • C. Cassio
  • D. Roderigo
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2016
930

The question is based on Richard Wright’s Native Son

Bigger kills Mary due to______?

  • A. Fear
  • B. Hatred
  • C. Envy
  • D. Distrust
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2018