Literature in English Past Questions

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Question 51
jamb 2025

This question is based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

Take my colt, gipsy, then! said young Earnshaw...and wheedle my father out of all he has

The statement  above exemplifies

Apremonition
Bpoint of view
Cflashack
Depistolary
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Question 52
jamb 2025

Beauty in Donne's "The Good Morrow" represents the poet's persona's

Afriend
Blover
Cniece
Dmother
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Question 53
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The experience of the persona in Eliot's "The Journey of the Magi" is

Achallenging but fulfilling
Brough and hopeless
Csmooth and exciting
Dtortuous and frustrating
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Question 54
jamb 2025

The subject matter of Angelou's "Caged Bird" is

Athe abolition of slavery and the freedom of caged people
Bthe limitation of racially discriminated African Americans
Csegregation and racial discrimination
Dthe colonial invasion and slave trade
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Question 55
jamb 2025

This question is based on Literary Appreciation

A thousand explosions in the belly of the earth
Bleeding rigs, bursting pipes
The oil flows
From the earth's sickbed
Because
The oil only flows
When the earth bleeds

The subject matter of the excerpt above is

Adespoliation
Bcontestation
Cunification
Drevolution
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Question 56
jamb 2025

This question is based on John Osborne's Look Back in Anger.

Jimmy's feeling about Alison's upper-class status is that of

Aindifference
Badoration
Cresentment
Dadmiration
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Question 57
jamb 2025

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

The chief of Ilujinle village is

ALakunle
BBaroka
CSadiku
DSidi
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Question 58
jamb 2025

This question is based on Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.

The overriding depiction of mystery and terror in the novel accounts for its classification as a 

Aneo-classical novel
Bgothic novel
Csatiric fiction
Dscience fiction
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